retaliations
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The moves follow a familiar pattern in U.S.-China negotiations of “limited escalations, symbolic retaliations, and carefully timed policy signals designed to probe the other side’s bottom line,” Gao said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
American forces have at times mounted retaliations, but in limited fashion to avoid instigating a full-fledged conflict.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
Experts say that the war-fighting plans in general go from warning shots to single strikes to multiple retaliations and that the hardest question is whether there are reliable ways to prevent a conflict from escalating.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
The agreement — which still needs to be finalized — comes after years of diplomatic tit-for-tat retaliations that have left the embassy badly understaffed, down from 1,200 personnel five years ago to just 120 now.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
But who was to gazette the provocations, the retaliations, the wrongs and cruelties inflicted by the other side?
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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