Broader treatment
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis delivered a pithy response on Sunday to North Korea’s nuclear test earlier that day. This was the core of the statement: “Any threat to the United States or its territories including Guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming.”
Global markets barely moved upon opening on Monday, which was consistent with the broader treatment of these words as just more of the same from Washington. But that is to misinterpret Mattis, whose words represent a significant escalation in U.S. policy: The probability of a U.S. strike on North Korea has clearly risen.
What does "broader treatment" mean here?
And could you please let me know what the last part of the sentence means?
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"the broader treatment of these words" means the way that others (apart from the global markets) interpreted or reacted to the words. e. as more statements very similar to those that have been made in the past by the US government.
- "the broader treatment of these words" means the way that others (apart from the global markets) interpreted or reacted to the words.
- e.
- as more statements very similar to those that have been made in the past by the US government.
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"the broader treatment of these words" means the way that others (apart from the global markets) interpreted or reacted to the words.
"just more of the same from Washington" describes the way in which the words were interpreted by those people, i.e. as more statements very similar to those that have been made in the past by the US government.
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