Battleground Budget

But the school halls were a battleground.

All WeChat Pay and Alipay did was to move the battleground to Europe. Neither the competitors nor the battleground has changed the Chinese is this really globalization?

All WeChat Pay and Alipay did was to move the battleground to Europe. Neither the competitors nor the battleground has changed it s still the Chinese is this really globalization?

In fact, the script has become a battleground of sorts between three different groups of people.

And I firmly believe that what we're seeing in the Himalayas is the next great, big battleground on this earth.

In this context, it is our belief that we, as members of the international community, cannot allow outer space to become the next battleground.

Moreover, Lebanese politicians from different backgrounds and allegiances expressed to the Mission their fears that Lebanon would become, once again, a battleground for external forces.

Lebanon has repeatedly served as a battleground for the parties to the Arab Israeli conflict, with devastating impact on its national unity and independence, as demonstrated by its tragic civil war (1975 1990) and by various military campaigns on its soil.

That is the worst possible outcome for Europe, which would become even more divided, turning into a battleground for influence between Putin s Russia and the United States. The EU would cease to be a functioning political force in the world (especially if Greece also left the eurozone).

Wedged awkwardly between China, Russia, and Japan, the Korean Peninsula has long been a bloody battleground for greater powers. Korean rulers only managed to survive by playing one foreign power off against the other, and by offering subservience, mainly to Chinese emperors, in exchange for protection.

This view, propagated since World War II by a quasi Marxist intelligentsia, is so ingrained that the French do not even bother to understand how markets operate. They look upon economics as an ideological battleground, where all views can be entertained without being confronted with logic, much less with facts.

Meanwhile, Yemen continues to serve as a battleground in a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran has armed and trained the Houthis, and, though the rebels' brand of Shi'ism shares little with that practiced in Tehran, they have praised the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and held up Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, as a model to be emulated.

Indeed, Ukraine s interests form a comfortingly familiar triangle of economic, political, and strategic priorities free trade and open markets across the globe prosperous and democratic neighbors and not being on the front line of a conflict, still less a potential battleground, between Russia and the West. Our goal is thus a democratic Ukraine located between prosperous like minded neighbors to east and west.

For India, the Chinese incursion also threatens its access to the 6,300 meter high Siachen Glacier, to the west of Depsang. Pakistan claims the Indian controlled glacier, which, strategically wedged between the Pakistani and Chinese held parts of Kashmir, served as the world s highest and coldest battleground (and one of the bloodiest) from the mid 1980 s until a cease fire took effect in 2003.

South Africa s courts have become a political battleground, as Mbeki and his allies use corruption charges to try to cripple Zuma s candidacy. The resulting political firestorm may well force Zuma to rely on core support from key allies within the country s trade union movement and Communist Party, challenging the political elite s pro market consensus and provoking debate over the future of South Africa s economic policy.