For years, China has vehemently protested the United States' plan to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad, system in South Korea, fearing it would undercut its own national security.
The quick about-face came, he said, because a number of well-known bloggers started criticizing its policy, claiming it would undercut the active discussion of the news that rages on sites, big and small, across the Internet.
Sure that's like refusing to allow a band to sell CDs out of its trunk because it would undercut the tickets sold at the skeezy club they're playing, but commerce is commerce and censorship is censorship is censorship – and this is both.
The company had been fairly quiet after the CEO shuffle until yesterday, when it announced it would undercut Amazon by dropping its pricing on Nook Simple Touch GlowLight to $99, a move that hints new Nook e-reader models are on the way for the back-to-school season.
Even as FX acknowledged Hulu brought it new viewers, the cable network nonetheless demanded that the video site drop three seasons from its free online offerings over fears it would undercut the show's ratings and hamper lucrative DVD sales.
If that evidence were substantiated, it would undercut Iran's claims that its program is aimed solely at producing electrical power.
If that evidence were substantiated, it would undercut Iran's assertions that its program's sole aim is producing electrical power.
Equally important, it would undercut Washington's ability to shape a peace settlement.
Finally, it would undercut OPEC and give us all cheap oil.
Mr. Rubin, a longtime investment banker, said the deficit ultimately is "not a Wall Street problem" but one for all Americans, since it would undercut job creation.
Notably, he was one of only two senators to vote against the Iran-Libya sanctions act in 2001, arguing that it would undercut efforts to engage with Tehran.
