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Contraposition Posted 9 years ago
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International partners

Simultaneously, the administration was supposedly poised to targetChinese manipulative trade practices, fulfilling campaign promises to be tough on China. But that was postponed last week, likely due to the vote at the United Nations.

The administration now finds itself in the same position as its Democratic and Republican predecessors. Our international partners will tell us to pause after this latest round of sanctions, and to wait for sanctions to bite. The problem is, with North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs rapidly progressing – including reports over the last two weeks of revised intelligence community assessments– we don’t have time to wait

www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/16/time-to-end-north-korea-sanctions-merry-go-round.html

What does 'international partners' indicate here?

And what does "revised intelligence community assessments" mean?

  

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"international partners" = other countries with whom we cooperate or share an interest "revised intelligence community assessments" = intelligence community assessments that have been revised "intelligence community assessments" = assessments made by the intelligence community "intelligence community" = organisations like the CIA who try to gather information about what other countries are doing

  • "international partners" = other countries with whom we cooperate or share an interest "revised intelligence community assessments" = intelligence community assessments that have been revised "intelligence community assessments" = assessments made by the intelligence community "intelligence community" = organisations like the CIA who try to gather information about what other countries are doing
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"international partners" = other countries with whom we cooperate or share an interest

"revised intelligence community assessments" = intelligence community assessments that have been revised

"intelligence community assessments" = assessments made by the intelligence community

"intelligence community" = organisations like the CIA who try to gather information about what other

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