Taiwanese know that this limits how much they can unilaterally pull away from China.

This does not faze the Times, which writes that the United States could unilaterally pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, despite what anyone thinks.

North Korea unilaterally pulled its MAC representatives out of Panmunjom in late April saying the MAC should be replaced by a peace treaty.

"I think it would be a mistake for the United States to unilaterally pull out of a United Nations operation."

May 2 - Members of Israel's Likud Party vote on whether or not to approve Ariel Sharon's proposal to pull out of the Gaza Strip unilaterally.

Mr. Gorbachev last year pledged to pull back some 200,000 troops unilaterally.

Although Mr. Putin did not mention it on Thursday, Russia is angry that in 2001 the Bush administration unilaterally pulled out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.

Israel's Likud Party votes in a referendum not to pull out of the Gaza Strip unilaterally.

"But I am concerned that no ally would want to unilaterally pull out of what is a common mission in Bosnia and Kosovo."

Mr. Sharon shocked Likud in 2002 by envisioning a Palestinian state and again this summer, by unilaterally pulling Israeli settlers and troops out of Gaza.