"Chen Shui-bian will not give China any easy excuse to retaliate with force," said the minister, Tien Hung-mao, referring to the closely watched inaugural address that Mr. Chen will deliver on Saturday.
And in its statement Thursday night it reserved its "full right to retaliate with force against any attacks" Mr. Netanyahu also used his speech as a rejoinder to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who earlier had harshly denounced Israel from the General Assembly podium.
And the fish farmers are retaliating with force.
Pakistan reserves the right to retaliate with full force".
The United States, by contrast, can retaliate with overwhelming force, including weapons of mass destruction.
Opposition protesters, who have so far done little more than throw stones, may retaliate with more force if they find themselves repeatedly coming under fire.
Ms. Lemonidis is considering using the state's Stand Your Ground law, which allows people who fear for their lives to retaliate with lethal force, as a defense.
The Chinese continue to rely on a "minimal deterrent" and the barest of abilities to retaliate with nuclear force should they come under nuclear attack.
The case cast a light on Florida's ambiguous self-defense law, Stand Your Ground, which allows people fearing great harm to retaliate with deadly force and is the core of Mr. Zimmerman's defense.
The Georgian leader believes that the diplomatic fudge at the Nato summit emboldened Moscow to retaliate with crushing force by invading Georgia proper when the Georgian military launched an offensive against the breakaway territory of South Ossetia last August.
