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Establishing floor prices for many agricultural products, and ensuring that Mexico produces what it consumes, runs counter to many NAFTA provisions – and to Trump’s goal of reducing the bilateral US trade deficit.
If there is one bilateral relationship that the Bush administration is seen to have handled successfully, it is that with India.
A McCain presidency would have offered no hope for a radical break with the military swagger and crony capitalism of the Bush years, on which the bilateral relationship with India was built.
Given how strained the bilateral relationship is – a situation long in the making – that was probably the best outcome that could reasonably be expected.
Against this background, it should perhaps not be surprising that cracks in the bilateral relationship have begun to show.
That means engaging in an honest conversation about the bilateral relationship, based on some acknowledgment of Wahhabism’s central role in the rise of Sunni radicalism throughout the region.
Finally, blockage of the multilateral process will trigger an even more pronounced shift toward bilateral or regional free trade agreements (FTA’s).
That is why Europe’s leaders should take advantage of the coming political cycle to correct Europe’s institutional design and strengthen its democratic legitimacy, thereby enabling them to respond to Euro-skepticism and ad hoc bilateral deals with more integration.
Today, it is preparing retaliatory legislation against China in response to pressure from many in the US who argue that an artificially weak renminbi is contributing to global imbalances, in particular to America’s massive bilateral trade deficit.
And for China now, as for Japan then, the undercurrent for these discussions is US frustration with bilateral current-account deficits.
But, given their shared position, their bilateral relationship is especially important, and diplomats from each country should get to work shoring it up.
Although some of those tensions appear purely bilateral, the Georgian-Russian conflict demonstrates that there is no such thing anymore in this globalized world, and certainly not in this interconnected region.
In terms of international relations, however, the disaster could improve Japan’s bilateral ties with influential countries.
The additional financing would complement domestic resources, bilateral aid, and multilateral grants that are already available through programs like the Global Partnership for Education.
So, for most European states, transatlantic relations are primarily about NATO and their bilateral links with the US.
Perhaps the greatest threat to the bilateral relationship is the belief that conflict is inevitable.
We are better targeting our external assistance and capacity building programs, and we are ready to use our trade and economic muscle, when necessary, by demanding counter-terrorism clauses in bilateral treaties.
The bilateral relationship, born in the wake of the Nazis’ annihilation of European Jewry, has developed into a solid one.
Still, over the last half-century, the bilateral relationship has become a formidable one.
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, can the bilateral relationship withstand the rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment in Europe?
In what might presage a shift in the bilateral relationship, the poll also revealed that 58% of Germans believe that the past should be consigned to history, and 62% disapprove of Israel’s policies today.
Budgets are prepared in offices far from the intended site of delivery, and bilateral and multilateral programs often establish priorities (like health care, schooling, or poverty reduction) without much input from the receiving country.
The removal by the US of some noneconomic sanctions designed to restrict official bilateral interaction is welcome, and an even greater relaxation in communications, through both official and unofficial channels, should be implemented.
Obama administration officials had been hoping that bilateral cooperation to tackle this common threat might deepen the US-China partnership in the same way that the common Soviet threat brought Nixon and Mao together in 1972.
In fact, both sides should be working to recalibrate their bilateral imbalances: Americans should spend less and save more, and Chinese should spend more and save less.
Hu will urge Obama to resume bilateral talks with North Korea under the Six-Party umbrella; and he may press China’s position that, in the long term, economic engagement is more effective than sanctions in changing North Korea’s behavior.
In principle, a web of bilateral transfer arrangements could achieve such an unblocking of trade.
After China opened up its economy and Russia emerged from the Soviet Union, bilateral relations entered a new stage.
Nonetheless, the visit will highlight several important features of the bilateral relationship.
But, beneath the surface, unease in the bilateral relationship persists, partly for historical reasons.
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