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These discussions are occurring on a bilateral basis, between Russia and the US, and multilaterally, within the context of the so-called P-5 talks, which involve all five permanent United Nations Security Council members – the only countries that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty legally permits to retain nuclear weapons pending universal disarmament.
And yet, at around the same time, the United States Congress issued its loudest call ever to classify China as an exchange-rate manipulator, accusing Chinese leaders of maintaining the renminbi’s peg to the dollar in order to guarantee a permanent bilateral trade surplus.
But the fact is that 17 years of high-level bilateral cooperation have produced little of substance.
What had seemed a bilateral dispute between the United States and China over the renminbi’s exchange rate has mutated into a general controversy over capital flows and currencies.
The IFFEd would bring together bilateral donors, the World Bank, and regional development banks in a coordinated manner, enabling them to pool their resources and leverage idle capital where appropriate.
This initiative should accompany efforts to restart bilateral military-to-military dialogue between the US and Russia.
Thus, the meeting in Mainz will be one of those diplomatic courtesy calls that gloss over important bilateral differences.
For this reason, Iran should win assurances that a new leadership in Iraq will not be hostile to it, and will seek friendly bilateral relations.
Facing external payments obligations, and with the currency under pressure, the government will again seek a proposed $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund and co-financing from other multilateral and bilateral sources.
The president-elect could complicate bilateral relations, particularly given that his first year in office will coincide with the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress next fall.
With a new diplomatic framework for bilateral relations, the US and China could ward off strategic confrontations.
The garrulous minister called the intrusion just “one little spot” of acne on the otherwise “beautiful face” of the bilateral relationship – a mere blemish that could be treated with “an ointment.”
The alternative would be the Switzerland model: a nightmarish thicket of agreements comprising more than 100 bilateral treaties.
He refuses to note the renminbi’s large real appreciation in recent years, or to acknowledge that, while changes in China’s exchange rate may affect the bilateral trade deficit, what matters is America’s multilateral trade deficit.
Many suspect that some EU member states, while insisting on robust human-rights clauses in bilateral agreements with countries known to torture prisoners, secretly aided in the rendition of suspected terrorists to these same countries.
After all, it stands for multilateralism and the rule of law, whereas Trump advocates bilateral deal making and the rule of force.
Since its founding in 1994, NAFTA has been characterized (at best) by a bilateral management of issues and problems.
As it stands, Mexico and Canada have been limited to dealing with the US on an individual basis because the three countries - for different reasons - prefer to keep separate bilateral links with their neighbors.
The result of this is to neglect the overall North American perspective while giving preference to a domestic or bilateral vision that sometimes fails to promote the larger objective of integration.
The re-casting of the bilateral agenda on migration between Mexico and the US, well underway prior to 9/11, must be reconciled with America's new concept of homeland security.
But, 17 years since the signing of the Oslo agreement and the launch of bilateral talks between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, there has been very little movement toward a Palestinian state.
The accord represented a revolutionary approach to comprehensive security, as well as to bilateral and multilateral relations.
And yet there is considerable reason to hope not only for formal handshakes and bilateral meetings among Northeast Asia’s “Big Three” leaders, but also for substantive discussions aimed at lowering tensions in the region.
This does not yet add up to a thaw in the bilateral relationship, but it does suggest that Xi may be seeking a respite, at least until China’s economy is on a more stable footing and his anti-corruption campaign begins to wind down.
As in the Middle East, America’s bilateral military relationships in Asia are often with “frenemies,” countries that share an alliance with the US while deeply mistrusting one another.
As it stands, China relies on bilateral arrangements to deepen its involvement in countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
But, given that these bilateral arrangements are executed by state-owned corporations, they often do not adhere to international best practices.
This discrepancy has prevented strategic bilateral cooperation on global governance issues.
America’s involvement complicates the bilateral relationship further.
At the same time, bilateral trade has soared to more than $40 billion in 2008, from about $12 billion in 1998.
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