Sentence examples similar to strategic assertiveness from inspiring English sources

The strategic convergence over Chinese assertiveness and threats to freedom of navigation in regional waters has led to more dynamic cooperation.

Besides Russia's emphatic show of military strength in its short war with Georgia nearly two months ago, the Kremlin has broadened its assertiveness and made further significant inroads in strategic control of energy.

Asia is undergoing major strategic and political change, including an uptick in Chinese maritime assertiveness, the normalisation of Japan's defence position, and leadership transitions in the region's two largest democracies, India and Indonesia.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A day after President Hamid Karzai ordered elite American forces out of a strategic province near the capital, very little was clear other than his increasing assertiveness in dictating the Western military role in Afghanistan.

The new spending plan comes as China's neighbors are increasingly unnerved by the country's growing assertiveness in pressing territorial claims and as the Obama administration has announced a strategic "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific region.

Assertiveness is the kingdom's new watchword at home and across a troubled region where strategic rivalry with Iran, upsetting an already volatile oil market, is the overarching theme.

His speech underscores the new strategic focus of the US on the Asia-Pacific region, amid concerns over how the rise of China and its growing assertiveness over maritime territorial claims might affect the region.

The island demands assertiveness.

One wanted more assertiveness.

The strategic shift to Asia aims to use traditional allegiances, as well as budding partnerships with countries such as Vietnam and India, to offset China's rising military power and assertiveness.

There is a new assertiveness.