The dispute immediately raised some pointed questions.
Point to its pointed teeth.
That is because, as Justice John Paul Stevens noted in a pointed dissent on Saturday, the matters in dispute in Florida fall properly within the jurisdiction of the Florida courts.
A senior defence official said Hagel requested the visit, which comes a day after he told reporters that China must better respect its neighbours – a pointed allusion to Beijing's ongoing territorial dispute with Japan and others over remote islands in the East China Sea.
Disputes on textiles have also become more pointed since Sept. 11.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made assurances last year that China is committed to resolving the disputes through peaceful talks, while, in a pointed reference to the U.S., calling on countries outside Asia to play a "positive" role in regional stability.
However this dispute is resolved, questions of trust and authority arise in a particularly pointed way in the sciences, and Hardwig's dilemma for the physics experiment is also a specific version of a more general phenomenon.
But in a pointed warning to the United States, Li said countries not directly involved in the territorial dispute should stay out of it.
The most pointed denunciation came from Chuck Jones, the former president of United Steel Workers Local 1999, in Indianapolis, who disputed Trump's initial characterization of the Carrier deal and was targeted by Trump on Twitter as a result.
