But Chinese officials have warned that rising stature is also generating external rivalries and domestic demands that would magnify the damage from political missteps and schisms.
Rather, the insurgents are viewed as capitalizing on widespread perceptions that the state is weak, corrupt, consumed with internal and external rivalries, and unable to deliver services, jobs, reforms and modernization.
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Opinion: Like this rivalry needs external implications.
To simulate rivalry, noisy external inputs were provided to units u1 and u2 in the single WTA cases or to units i1 and i2 of the circuit I in the double WTA case, respectively.
In fact, their enmity went back for years and reflected not only ethnic rivalries but ideological differences, competition for external support, factional intrigues and personal ambitions.
Various generalizations of such front solutions have also been developed in order to take into account the effects of network in-homogeneities [41 43], external stimuli [44, 45], and network competition in a model of binocular rivalry waves [38].
Externally, he had a challenging time in dealing with the internally generated tensions and external pressures caused by the US-Soviet bipolar rivalry during the Cold War (Wong 2015).
While the original rivalry remains strong, the rise of external competitors, most notably Nike in the U.S., has meant a certain arm's length rapprochement has emerged between the corporate cultures.
