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

Another one of your arguments is that nonintervention is also dangerous, and so the burden of proof shouldn’t entirely be on people who want to intervene in a given case.

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

Here at the Antipodes we have founded a democracy, and in a democracy the government motto should be nonintervention.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie