And yet, at the same time they wanted to eliminate disagreement under the pretext of concern for their Asian allies.
Even the flimsy pretext of concern for children rings resoundingly hollow: despite the odious insinuations of conservative groups, homosexuality itself is not psychologically unhealthy.
Palestinians retort that these security concerns are a pretext for a land grab (see article).
The Pakistani government, for its part, is suspicious that Washington, which is also trying to grow closer to Pakistan's nuclear rival, India, is using its security concerns as a pretext for prying open Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said America was "deeply disappointed" by the decision, and added: "It is critical that the government not use security concerns as a pretext for impeding the democratic process.
During the Olympics, one provincial propaganda department ordered that negative reports be "strictly controlled" and that there must above all be no reports on "problems that give the Western media a pretext for launching attacks, such as issues concerning press freedom, air quality, food safety, democracy, religion and legal issues".But some online commentators in China have been less restrained.
In the wake of a failed military coup on July 15 , 2016 that threatened President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's power, his regime has waged an "unprecedented purge" of critics, citing supposed national security concerns as a pretext for mass arrests and newspaper closures.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said security concerns should not be a "pretext" for slowing elections.
"It is important that no-one allows concern about these finding to become a pretext for criticism of Islam itself," he added.
And he was withering about rich countries' efforts to turn concern for labour and the environment into a pretext for protectionism.Many smaller countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are apprehensive about their ability to compete with the United States.
The pretext for moving it was to protect public health (prompted by concerns about the animal origins of SARS the respiratory disease and bird flu), improve traffic conditions and give the animals more space.
