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Earlier this month in Tehran, the Japanese and Iranian foreign ministers agreed to begin negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty.
Failure to contain the impact of regional conflicts and bilateral frictions may lead to more than just supply shocks in areas like energy.
Similarly, bilateral requests that North Korea had made for years, such as repeal of its designation by the US as an enemy in the context of the “Trading with the Enemy Act,” once delivered, were dismissed as unimportant.
Italy’s leaders should engage actively in commercial diplomacy, using the country’s embassies and trade agencies to promote Italy globally, while working to build strong bilateral relations with other EU members, particularly southern countries like Spain.
There is a longstanding disconnect between bilateral and multilateral approaches to international economic problems.
Politicians have long favored the bilateral perspective, because it simplifies blame: you “solve” problems by targeting a specific country.
Likewise, it doesn’t help when we emphasize that China is merely a large piece of a much bigger multilateral problem: the US had bilateral merchandise trade deficits with 102 countries in 2017.
Nor does it matter when we point out that correcting for supply-chain distortions – caused by inputs from other countries that enter into Chinese assembly platforms – would reduce the bilateral US-China trade imbalance by 35-40%.
Flawed as it may be, the bilateral political case resonates in a US where there is enormous pressure to ease the angst of the country’s beleaguered middle class.
US negotiators are fixated on targeted reductions of around $200 billion in the bilateral trade imbalance over a two-year time frame.
That points to rising balance-of-payments and multilateral trade deficits, which are impossible to resolve through targeted bilateral actions against a single country.
Chinese negotiators are more circumspect, resisting numerical deficit targets but committing to the joint objective of “effective measures to substantially reduce” the bilateral imbalance with the US.
Even if the stars were in perfect alignment and the US was not facing a saving constraint, it stretches credibility to seek a formulaic bilateral solution to America’s multilateral problem.
In the end, any effort to impose a bilateral solution on a multilateral problem will backfire, with ominous consequences for American consumers.
Without addressing the shortfall in domestic saving, the bilateral fix simply moves the deficit from one economy to others.
Rather, North Korea’s aim was to postpone the six-party talks as long as possible in order to force direct bilateral negotiations with the US, in which it would presumably extract energy assistance and other aid while demanding a security guarantee for “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il.
America didn’t budge on bilateral negotiations, and its response to North Korea’s recent announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons likewise emphasized the need to revive the six-party talks.
The Japanese government has also been searching for effective measures to respond to North Korea’s consistently insincere attitude on regional and bilateral issues, including the abduction cases.
Though Bush shifted his policy toward bilateral negotiations with the North a few months later, the Kim regime had become much more obstinate.
Indeed, the US-China relationship will be the most significant bilateral engagement in shaping the course of the twenty-first century.
Its leaders seem to have interpreted Obama’s attempts to engage with them, down-playing bilateral aggravations, as a sign of American weakness in the wake of Wall Street’s crash and military reverses in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From Macron’s perspective, however, the disagreements that will shape the bilateral relationship had to be laid out, and a clear power dynamic established, before dialogue could occur.
That is why it is particularly disturbing to hear Japanese and Chinese officials and analysts compare the countries’ bilateral relationship to that between Britain and Germany on the eve of World War I.
Brexit in a Brave New WorldBRUSSELS – When it comes to bilateral trade, gains and losses are distributed asymmetrically between the larger and the smaller economy.
Without the US on board, the rules-based international system would be far less secure – not least because others might soon follow Trump’s example, choosing bilateral deal making over multilateral cooperation.
But, three months ago, the Macedonian and Greek governments finally reached an agreement to resolve their bilateral disputes.
Despite this gradual normalization of bilateral relations, the fundamental dispute between the two countries remains unresolved.
And for the third time in a row, a new US president will start his administration with ambitions to improve bilateral relations.
I am confident that the same reliability will be demonstrated in Switzerland’s commitment to take on the OECD standard, which will be incorporated into future bilateral double-taxation agreements.
Trade, immigration, drugs, security, and regional issues will continue to dominate the bilateral agenda, and on all these fronts, AMLO will face the most adversarial US president in nearly a century.
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