"Some overseas forces advocating Tibet independence have been engaged in anti-China separatist activities".
The September 11th attacks brought even greater pressure to put more of America's overseas forces closer to the real threats.
But it badly hampered the work of family-planning groups overseas, forcing clinic closures, reduced services and fee increases.
He served in the Republic of Korea and at Fort Belvoir in Virginia during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he supervised efforts to supply overseas forces.
As with the Tibetan turmoil, the Chinese government says that the violence which left 140 dead in Urumqi before unrest spread to Kashgar, Xinjiang's second city, was a plot by overseas forces bent on splitting the motherland.
All the same, it makes little military sense to keep America's overseas forces in the two great clumps, in Europe (chiefly in Germany and Asiaa (chiefly in Japan and South Korea), that formed during the cold war to deter the Soviet threat.
Discussions among commanders have been particularly pointed as the Special Operations Command has sought to follow Mr. Rumsfeld's orders across the military to reshape the global footprint of overseas forces.
On a 1943 edition of "Command Performance," a radio series recorded on transcription discs for shipment to overseas forces, the M.C., Dinah Shore, remarked, "You know, Bing, a singer like Frank Sinatra comes along only once in a lifetime".
In an editorial, the newspaper accused "overseas forces" of being too quick to defend the jailed lawyers and added: "Have faith in the court and the progress of rule of law in China".
While she was in prison, she suffered the same fate as many of the people she represents: her house in an old Beijing neighbourhood was demolished and Ms Ni and her husband were forced to live on the streets, until pressure from overseas forced authorities to allow them to move into a guesthouse.
