coercive

China's patrols around Kinmen are part of Beijing's "grey-zone" operations against Taiwan -- coercive tactics that fall short of acts of war -- Taipei and analysts say.

A short, sharp campaign that dismantles the regime’s coercive tools could trigger elite defection.

According to the people close to the White House’s dynamics, officials are now using the incident as a clear-cut example of China’s coercive tactics.

On Wednesday the University of Virginia signed an agreement with the Justice Department that pauses all federal investigations against the school, without an enormous ransom or coercive new mandates.

She said: "There is a fundamental lack of transparency and accountability when it comes to judges and magistrates recognising domestic abuse, recognising coercive control, and hearing child voices in the family court system."