And Xi Jinping's new foreign policy outlook, though seemingly more assertive, puts China on a path more conducive to peace.
BEIJING -- Recently, I debated the University of Chicago political theorist John Mearsheimer on the question of "Can China Rise Peacefully?" That debate took place amid torrents of international and domestic commentaries on China's seemingly more assertive foreign policy approach under the nation's new leader Xi Jinping.
Meanwhile, Beijing has grown more assertive, seemingly abandoning its patient approach.
SIX months ago Japan, whose leaders have often been dull political ciphers, celebrated an unaccustomed transition: the handover of power from a confident, reforming prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, to an assertive, seemingly capable successor, Shinzo Abe.
She was smart, pretty, assertive and seemingly at ease in social situations.
His "Five Hot Dogs" gives each mustard-smeared hot dog a personality of its own, one assertive, one seemingly shy, another poking out of its bun at a jaunty angle.
But the centerpiece of the brand image is now a bold-looking signature, seemingly written by a creative, assertive woman in such a hurry that she renders the circumflex over the "o" in Lancôme as curved rather than pointed.
The assertive exercise of (benign!) global hegemony seemingly held the key to ensuring that Americans would enjoy safety and security, both at home and abroad, now and in perpetuity.
One sector seemingly horrified by the attempt to exhibit a more assertive Islamic and Shiite presence in the region is in traditional Sunni states and Western allies like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Through the political saga of waterfront development, Salzmann illuminates Chicago's seemingly paradoxical position as both a paragon of buccaneering capitalism and assertive state power.
By making students more conscious of the degree to which modes of presentation shape the seemingly neutral space of discussion, the students who tended to feel intimidated by more assertive students came to realize that many of the factors that encourage and shape their feelings of intimidation are irrelevant to the quality of the positions being evaluated.
