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In 2009, the “approach by stages of adaptation” launched by Obama seemed to ease bilateral tensions and prepared the way for the 2010 New START arms-reduction treaty, in which Russia and the US took a strategic leap to cut the number of nuclear-missile launchers by half.
But France does have a long tradition of a “special” bilateral relationship with Russia – marked by a deep cultural dimension – that somehow transcended the Cold War.
In addition to these practical reasons for the improvement in bilateral relations, the rise of China poses a strategic consideration.
The strong dollar--far more than Japanese protectionism--fuelled the bilateral deficit with Japan.
First, Ukraine demands a bilateral protocol on market access, which would force Russia to abolish roughly 100 trade sanctions, primarily in agriculture.
Our country has been fortunate to receive funding in recent years from bilateral donors and international organizations like GPE, which helps countries like mine increase educational quality and broaden access.
In October 2013, the PBOC and the European Central Bank signed a bilateral currency swap agreement for €45 billion ($50 billion), the largest ever for China outside of Asia.
And only one major foreign-policy test for Obama has clear implications for the US economy and job creation: the need to recalibrate relations with China in a way that restores balance to bilateral trade.
Still, after its founding in 1991, Mercosur, the fractious South American trade bloc, managed to ease tensions between Argentina and Brazil, leading to a tenfold increase in bilateral trade.
At this year’s ASEAN summit in Bali, it was agreed that these territorial disputes be settled through bilateral negotiations.
This has made bilateral negotiations to settle these disputes unviable.
Nevertheless, China’s recent strategic assertiveness has led many Asian democracies to seek to deepen their ties with the US, as South Korea has done with a bilateral free-trade agreement.
The aim is not to create a bilateral hegemony over the enlarged EU.
The blowback from the refusal to acknowledge the rights of citizens could be dramatic, undermining national security, bilateral trade, the transatlantic strategic partnership, and the nature of the Internet itself.
While trade and investment ties with China helped boost the continent’s overall economic growth to a record-high 5.2% in 2005, China also cancelled $10 billion in bilateral debts from African countries.
The first revision in 18 years of the bilateral defense guidelines was concluded, giving Japan’s Self-Defense Forces an expansive role in providing logistical support to the US.
The US obsession with renminbi appreciation as the silver bullet for the bilateral trade imbalance has merely diverted attention from addressing its real causes.
In addition to their close political ties, bilateral trade has soared, to $12 billion in 2013.
Moreover, re-casting the World Bank’s mission in this way taps the Bank’s distinct comparative advantage relative to the dozens of bilateral aid agencies and hundreds of non-governmental organizations that work in developing countries.
One of the messages that Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered to Kim Jong-il at their bilateral summit on May 5 – concerning North Korea’s need to launch serious economic reform and open up to the world – has provided a clue as to how to move forward.
Likewise, for all the effort put into improving America’s most important bilateral relationships – those with China and Russia – ties with both countries have become increasingly tense, owing most recently to the Kremlin’s intransigence over Syria and official Chinese behavior in the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, no other nuclear-armed state has expressed the slightest interest in bilateral or multilateral reduction negotiations until the two major powers, which currently hold 95% of the world’s stockpile, make further major cuts.
The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met in New Delhi recently, after a gap of more than 15 months, the terrorist attacks of November 11, 2008 having frozen bilateral relations between the two countries in suspicion and mutual recrimination.
It would be a mistake to presume that the vast expansion of trade between India and China, currently worth more than $60 billion annually (with China now India’s largest trading partner), must lead to improved bilateral relations.
American leaders will welcome her election as proof that the estrangement in bilateral relations is over.
The PLA’s recent intensification of such border violations holds important implications for President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to India – and for the future of the bilateral relationship.
Unsurprisingly, India has often ended up losing out in bilateral deals.
This will exacerbate existing imbalances in the bilateral trade relationship – China currently exports to India three times more than it imports from the country, with most of these imports being raw materials –thereby exposing India to increased strategic pressure and serving China’s interest in preventing India’s rise as a peer competitor.
The fact that the spotlight is now on China’s Tibet-linked claim to Arunachal Pradesh, rather than on Tibet’s status, underscores China’s dominance in setting the bilateral agenda.
Of course, the bilateral relationship with both is strong, offering great trading opportunities.
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