China s ambition is marked by muscle flexing.

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And you do that by flexing your empathy, sincerity, hustle, humility and respect.

Russia is again seeking a role as a global power and is therefore flexing its muscles.

In addition to issues like climate change, there is also a sense that other players are flexing their muscles.

This diplomatic and economic realism is more than a reversal of the neo conservative muscle flexing of the George W. Bush years.

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But Russia s muscle flexing behavior leaves Western leaders perplexed and wary, which seems a dubious way for the Kremlin to secure Russia s new stature.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.

Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

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No one seems to know how to respond to China s diplomatic and military muscle flexing in Asia, for the extent of China s ambitions remains utterly unclear.

Turkey seeks to re establish its Islamic identity and Ottoman influence over the Middle East, thereby flexing its diplomatic muscles for a European Union that has all but rejected Turkish membership.

What is most frightening about all this is not the American anti missile project or Putin s rhetorical muscle flexing, but rather the increasingly dramatic European weakness that the episode has exposed.

Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.

Russia is also flexing its muscles over the question of Kosovo s future, raising objections in the United Nations Security Council to the UN s plan for independence and openly supporting Serbia s quest to maintain its supremacy over Kosovo.

Nor is there any plan on offer from other emerging powers, though in time India may show growing alarm about China s muscle flexing, and Brazil may question whether it has really been wise to cosset Venezuela and Cuba.

Russia is again seeking a role as a global power and is therefore flexing its muscles. Signs of change in Russian foreign policy have been mounting ever since President Vladimir Putin delivered a confrontational speech in Munich last February.

By increasing oil and gas prices, or limiting supplies, flexing its military muscles in Georgia, or sending ships to Cuba and Venezuela to parade Russia s power on the world stage, Putin has convinced many people that Russia is back.

Another option would be to bring the country s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether. Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

This diplomatic and economic realism is more than a reversal of the neo conservative muscle flexing of the George W. Bush years. It is an attempt by a declining power to use its restrained capabilities in a more economical way.

But the recent military muscle flexing with rocket tests and the rejection of a compromise by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and his foreign minister show that the country s leadership is seriously divided over the strategic line that Iran should pursue.