Sentences with phrase «north as a buffer»

Instead, Beijing prefers to maintain the North as a buffer state, a diplomatic bargaining chip and a tool for indirectly threatening the United States.

Those arguing for drastic change tend to make the headlines, but there are many, including many in the military, that promote a traditional line, voicing concerns over US encirclement and the importance of the North as a buffer zone to US forces in South Korea.

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That conflict ended with North Korea as a sort of human buffer zone between US forces and the Chinese mainland.

Alarmed, the European Union has mandated the creation of a buffer zone just north of the Pugliese town of Lecce, essentially writing off everything south of a line that extends between the Ionian and Adriatic seas as a dead zone.

We were working with the Government of Nigeria to complete the first phase of the federal «shelter belt» project, which involves creating a forestry barrier across the north of the country as a buffer to the encroachment of the Sahara desert.

It is designed to face north to maximize sun exposure during the day to reduce heating and cooling costs (remember, in the southern hemisphere, the best solar orientation would be north, not south as it is here in the northern hemisphere), using a generous sunroom as a buffer between the outdoors and indoors.

The circumpolar current acts as a buffer preventing warm water from the tropics from transporting heat to the South Pole, a buffer that does not exist in the north.

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