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Every time Taiwan does anything that China does n’t like, the Chinese react with their own military coercion. – Yun Sun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
All nations, large and small, should be secure in their sovereignty, free from coercion, and able to pursue economic growth consistent with accepted international rules and norms. – Greg Baker/AP US	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Chinese leadership might adopt a strategy of diplomatic isolation, gray zone pressure, or economic coercion against Taiwan. – Ann Wang/Reuters Taiwan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are seeing activity in Congress by people like Rep. Jim Jordan, like Rep. [James] Comer and [Cathy] McMorris Rodgers to advance legislation to make crystal clear that the federal government cannot and must not engage in this type of coercion of social media platforms. – General Counsel Carl Szabo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That's what Nancy Pelosi really accomplished, raising global awareness of China's sustained military coercion campaign against Taiwan that's been going on for more than a decade, they do this every year. – Drew Thompson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A dark pattern uses coercion, coercion is getting you to do things that you later regret. ... Persuasion is getting people to do things they do want to do, things that they don't regret. – Nir Eyal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the situations where you have male coercion, which isn't uncommon amongst certain species, the female is not as big a victim as you think she is, because she's in control of who fertilizes her eggs, and as far as evolution is concerned, that's all that matters. – Lucy Cooke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is vitally important, a vitally important choice, as America grapples with the deadly pandemic, the economic crisis, and the reckoning on race -- what it reveals the deep disparities that still exist in our country, and there should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That was because [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.] went online the day before and said, 'hey, Google and Apple and Wall Street and Amazon, why are you allowing this app that I don't like on the internet?; – And three days later, it was gone, so this is exactly the kind of coercion that the Supreme Court has said in the First Amendment that the government can't engage in without violating the First Amendment. – Glenn Greenwald	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The mandates, coercion, and heavy hand of government under the President Joe Biden administration are yet another example of how America was better off under President Trump's leadership. – Steve Carra	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They [vaccines] reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 … I don’t think the objective of public health is coercion. I think it’s education, and I think it’s to allow people to make choices, so they don’t feel coerced. – Joseph Ladapo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the decision to get vaccinated is a personal medical choice that should be made free from coercion and mandates from employers, the employee in question has been placed on administrative leave, and the Florida Department of Health is conducting an inquiry to determine if any laws were broken in this case. – Weesam Khoury	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The first thing you have to do is figure out what was she trying to accomplish with the post, was it just to tell her story or did she want an investigation and [ drop ] consequences if she was able to establish the coercion ? – Dick Pound	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've spent my entire career fighting for freedom in the Army and as a state legislator, yet Joe Biden wants to discard me because I oppose his coercive forced vaccination mandate, i believe individuals should be able to freely give their consent, without fear of retaliation or coercion before receiving the Covid vaccine. – The Michigan Republican	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need to stop bossing people around, we've got to stop the coercion. We've got to stop browbeating people. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People will say, ‘How can you be a prostitute and love your children?’ But when you have somebody saying, ‘I'm going to hurt your child if you don't do this,’ you do it, so that's where coercion came in. – Elizabeth Meserve	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
China wants to keep Taiwan in a box and it is using more and more coercion against Taiwan... They want to intimidate Taiwan. – Bonnie Glaser	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The US and China are very concerned by the PRC's provocative military activity near Taiwan, as The US and China said, the activity is destabilizing. It risks miscalculation and it has the potential to undermine regional peace and stability. So, The US and China strongly urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure and coercion directed at Taiwan. – Tony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The US national security adviser made quite clear concerns we have about Beijing's recent, you know, provocative activities, and our concerns about the continued pressure and coercion that we see by Beijing across Taiwan Strait. – The US and China	Found on CNN 2 years ago
PLAAF sorties are pretty routine at this point, but stepping up bomber flights on a major PRC( People's Republic of China) holiday underscores that this is political warfare and part of a massive coercion campaign. – Drew Thompson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The delays, that could probably be worked out, but China’s behavior and the economic coercion against Australia and others, I think, created a real sense of urgency and real domestic pressure. (Australia has) a lot of sea coast to defend, and the Pacific Ocean is massive, so having that long range made a big difference for them. – Garret Martin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The United States will not leave Australia alone on the field, or better yet, on the pitch, in the face of these pressure tactics, we've raised publicly and privately our serious concerns about Beijing's use of economic coercion against Australia. – The United	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You’re watching the worst kind of coercion take place right now, if you take a gun and hold it to one of their family members, it’s, ‘Yeah, I’m going to fly that helicopter for you.’. – John Venable	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If we avoid confronting what happened here just a few short months ago, we can be sure that intimidation, coercion, and violence will become a defining feature of our politics for generations to come. – Peter Meijer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Every time Taiwan does anything that China does n’t like, the Chinese react with their own military coercion.

– Yun Sun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All nations, large and small, should be secure in their sovereignty, free from coercion, and able to pursue economic growth consistent with accepted international rules and norms.

– Greg Baker/AP US

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Chinese leadership might adopt a strategy of diplomatic isolation, gray zone pressure, or economic coercion against Taiwan.

– Ann Wang/Reuters Taiwan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are seeing activity in Congress by people like Rep. Jim Jordan, like Rep. [James] Comer and [Cathy] McMorris Rodgers to advance legislation to make crystal clear that the federal government cannot and must not engage in this type of coercion of social media platforms.

– General Counsel Carl Szabo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That's what Nancy Pelosi really accomplished, raising global awareness of China's sustained military coercion campaign against Taiwan that's been going on for more than a decade, they do this every year.

– Drew Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A dark pattern uses coercion, coercion is getting you to do things that you later regret. ... Persuasion is getting people to do things they do want to do, things that they don't regret.

– Nir Eyal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the situations where you have male coercion, which isn't uncommon amongst certain species, the female is not as big a victim as you think she is, because she's in control of who fertilizes her eggs, and as far as evolution is concerned, that's all that matters.

– Lucy Cooke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is vitally important, a vitally important choice, as America grapples with the deadly pandemic, the economic crisis, and the reckoning on race -- what it reveals the deep disparities that still exist in our country, and there should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That was because [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.] went online the day before and said, 'hey, Google and Apple and Wall Street and Amazon, why are you allowing this app that I don't like on the internet?; – And three days later, it was gone, so this is exactly the kind of coercion that the Supreme Court has said in the First Amendment that the government can't engage in without violating the First Amendment.

– Glenn Greenwald

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The mandates, coercion, and heavy hand of government under the President Joe Biden administration are yet another example of how America was better off under President Trump's leadership.

– Steve Carra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They [vaccines] reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 … I don’t think the objective of public health is coercion. I think it’s education, and I think it’s to allow people to make choices, so they don’t feel coerced.

– Joseph Ladapo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the decision to get vaccinated is a personal medical choice that should be made free from coercion and mandates from employers, the employee in question has been placed on administrative leave, and the Florida Department of Health is conducting an inquiry to determine if any laws were broken in this case.

– Weesam Khoury

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The first thing you have to do is figure out what was she trying to accomplish with the post, was it just to tell her story or did she want an investigation and [ drop ] consequences if she was able to establish the coercion ?

– Dick Pound

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've spent my entire career fighting for freedom in the Army and as a state legislator, yet Joe Biden wants to discard me because I oppose his coercive forced vaccination mandate, i believe individuals should be able to freely give their consent, without fear of retaliation or coercion before receiving the Covid vaccine.

– The Michigan Republican

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need to stop bossing people around, we've got to stop the coercion. We've got to stop browbeating people.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People will say, ‘How can you be a prostitute and love your children?’ But when you have somebody saying, ‘I'm going to hurt your child if you don't do this,’ you do it, so that's where coercion came in.

– Elizabeth Meserve

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China wants to keep Taiwan in a box and it is using more and more coercion against Taiwan... They want to intimidate Taiwan.

– Bonnie Glaser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The US and China are very concerned by the PRC's provocative military activity near Taiwan, as The US and China said, the activity is destabilizing. It risks miscalculation and it has the potential to undermine regional peace and stability. So, The US and China strongly urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure and coercion directed at Taiwan.

– Tony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The US national security adviser made quite clear concerns we have about Beijing's recent, you know, provocative activities, and our concerns about the continued pressure and coercion that we see by Beijing across Taiwan Strait.

– The US and China

Found on CNN
2 years ago

PLAAF sorties are pretty routine at this point, but stepping up bomber flights on a major PRC( People's Republic of China) holiday underscores that this is political warfare and part of a massive coercion campaign.

– Drew Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The delays, that could probably be worked out, but China’s behavior and the economic coercion against Australia and others, I think, created a real sense of urgency and real domestic pressure. (Australia has) a lot of sea coast to defend, and the Pacific Ocean is massive, so having that long range made a big difference for them.

– Garret Martin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The United States will not leave Australia alone on the field, or better yet, on the pitch, in the face of these pressure tactics, we've raised publicly and privately our serious concerns about Beijing's use of economic coercion against Australia.

– The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You’re watching the worst kind of coercion take place right now, if you take a gun and hold it to one of their family members, it’s, ‘Yeah, I’m going to fly that helicopter for you.’.

– John Venable

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we avoid confronting what happened here just a few short months ago, we can be sure that intimidation, coercion, and violence will become a defining feature of our politics for generations to come.

– Peter Meijer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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