nonintervention

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In fact, Beijing has not gone to war since 1979, a record of nonintervention that makes it unique among the permanent members of the U.N.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

In a recent piece for the Atlantic, he offered what he called “A Practical Guide for Avoiding Fallacies on Syria,” which took aim at several popular arguments for nonintervention.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017

The deaths represented China’s first combat troops killed in action since border clashes following its last war, with Vietnam in 1979, after which it espoused nonintervention in affairs abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2016

The Pope John XII. had been desired to appoint the king; he pleaded the principle of nonintervention, and bade the nation execute its own laws and its own will.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various