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The bilateral nature of the negotiations certainly implies that they have a chance.
Or perhaps the stimulus will be fear that the world is sliding toward protectionism, with bilateral and regional trade agreements like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deepening divisions between their participants and the rest of the world.
This gave rise to serious discussion about instituting permanent direct air links to aid bilateral trade flow.
That means resisting the trend, which has lately gained momentum, toward bypassing these institutions in favor of bilateral or regional arrangements.
More broadly, as China has declared unconditional Indian troop withdrawal to be a “prerequisite” for ending the standoff, India, facing recurrent Chinese incursions over the last decade, has insisted that border peace is a “prerequisite” for developing bilateral ties.
While recent developments raise the risk that the crisis could escalate, they also present an opportunity to enhance US-Russia cooperation, and give the “reset” of bilateral relations strategic substance and concrete impetus.
Above all, their realism about the bilateral relationship and its possibilities will be essential, because Europe’s most powerful asset has never been a detailed vision of the future, but rather its collective willingness to improve upon past failures.
During the “Scramble for Africa” (which lasted from roughly the late 1860s until 1905), European powers signed hundreds of bilateral and multilateral agreements that partitioned the largely unexplored continent into protectorates, free-trade areas, and colonies.
He and Singh also found time during the game to talk about bilateral relations, and agreed to launch what came to be called the “composite dialogue,” covering eight contentious issues that had soured ties for so long.
It was Gilani who sat next to Singh to watch the game; but, ultimately, process, rather than protocol, will determine how bilateral relations move forward.
The authorities could cut a bilateral deal like Switzerland’s, which guarantees access to the Single Market for specific industries and sectors.
But announcing an IMF program (with regional bilateral assistance) was not what calmed markets in South Korea and Indonesia in 1997.
New India, Old EuropeNEW DELHI – The recent Indian-Italian bilateral dialogue, held in Milan on November 7, at a time when Italy was reeling from the euro crisis and Silvio Berlusconi’s impending political demise, offered a fraught reminder of the potential, and the limits, of India’s relationship with the European Union.
Another stumbling block is that India prefers bilateral arrangements with individual member states to dealing with the EU collectively.
As for Japan, last month Trump forced a reluctant Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to accept a new trade framework that the US views as a precursor to negotiations on a bilateral free-trade agreement.
Japan would prefer the US to rejoin the now-Japan-led TPP, which would ensure greater overall trade liberalization and a more level playing field than a bilateral deal, which the US would try to tilt in its own favor.
For its part, Europe needs to mount a charm offensive to persuade Putin and Medvedev that Russia’s real interest is in improving bilateral relations.
It has an agreement with Brazil to facilitate use of the two countries’ currencies in bilateral trade transactions.
Enlargement of the European Union to include the first batch of applicant countries is now within reach as more and more chapters are closed in the bilateral negotiations.
The first is investment, where China has moved aggressively by introducing a variety of multilateral and bilateral initiatives.
CAMBRIDGE – The decade that preceded the 2008 financial crisis was marked by massive global trade imbalances, as the United States ran large bilateral deficits, especially with China.
Bilateral annual trade turnover exceeds $3 billion, with oil constituting more than 96% of Indian imports from Nigeria.
He has, after all, shown a clear preference for personal, bilateral deals, like those he makes with his businesses, rather than engaging in formal, much less multilateral, diplomacy.
But, as the structure of the BRI shows, the world order China envisions is based not on multilateralism, but on bilateral relations between countries.
Since Putin offers Ukraine nothing, Ukraine has minimized its purchases of gas from Russia and downgraded all other bilateral relations.
There is no denying that strong bilateral ties are good for Greece’s economy and security.
It will, of course, be important for the Fund to focus on global imbalances, not bilateral imbalances.
In a multilateral trading system, large bilateral trade deficits are often balanced by bilateral surpluses with other countries.
So China can have a trade deficit with the Middle East and a trade surplus with the US, but these bilateral balances indicate nothing about China’s overall contribution to global imbalances.
In 2006, China became Japan’s largest trade partner, and the new government formed by the Democratic Party of Japan in 2009 sought improved bilateral relations.
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