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Finally, Britain would lose the opportunity for cooperation and added strength on issues that it cares about: climate change and the environment; trade negotiations; foreign policy, where sometimes it suits us to have European and not just US support; and bilateral disputes, where, as was seen recently with Argentina, Europe’s solidarity counts.
A bilateral free-trade agreement has facilitated a surge in trade with the United States.
Ma had been tilting his government’s policies increasingly toward China, concluding a bilateral framework agreement on economic cooperation.
There is a danger, however, that China will pursue a bilateral approach, using the project to serve narrow foreign-policy interests.
At the summit, Japan and India devised a new motto for the bilateral relationship: “Shared security, shared prosperity, and shared destiny.”
More recently, South Korea’s Supreme Court ordered a major Japanese steelmaker to compensate the “victims of forced labor” during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea, even though a 1965 bilateral agreement was supposed to have settled “completely and finally” all such claims.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said little of substance about European policy – this was strictly a bilateral meeting.
The Kremlin’s huge weapons sales to Venezuela, and the bilateral military exercises held there, as well as the restoration of security links with Cuba, demonstrate that Russia is willing, once again, to challenge US hegemony in the Caribbean.
But, by acquiescing on bilateral trade – the dumping of Chinese-made steel on the Indian market is just one of many examples – India has inadvertently helped foot the bill for the PLA’s encirclement strategy.
Now, Putin and Abe will have more room to negotiate the contested islands’ status, and to develop a future framework for economic cooperation, which will likely include regular bilateral summits.
And, from the transition countries’ perspective, bilateral support from the G-8 and the European Union has been disappointing.
This combination of assistance plays to the strengths of bilateral and multilateral partners like the GCC, the EU, and the US, as well as IFIs like the World Bank, the IMF, the EBRD, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and Arab development funds.
But its diplomatic cognitive dissonance – criticizing the Egyptian regime while continuing to supply it with military hardware – can serve only to undermine bilateral relations, just as the same American approach to Musharraf’s regime thoroughly eroded US-Pakistani ties.
It is also thanks to words – two statements followed by a conversation – exchanged betweenObama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that a joint program for bilateral nuclear disarmament was initiated.
But as bad as TRIPs are, the bilateral trade agreements that Bush has been pushing are worse.
The general framework it provides could be particularly valuable for China and the European Union, as they attempt to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
Regional and bilateral free-trade agreements have also multiplied since 1998, with even China establishing such an arrangement with ASEAN at the beginning of this year.
Based on bilateral trade shares, transactions with Asian and Latin American economies caught up by 2006, and their relative trade significance for the US has more than doubled since 1972.
This, too, has been accepted reasonably calmly, if not always quietly, by China, and has not undermined the continuing growth in bilateral economic relationships that every country in the region is developing with China.
In 2006, South Korea launched a yearlong, amply-financed outreach campaign that targeted all 15 Security Council members with official visits in their capitals, and that often dangled significant bilateral carrots – gestures that other candidates had neither the time nor the resources to offer.
Indeed, Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dismissive recent statements hint that Turkey may even be backtracking on its plans to establish more normal bilateral ties.
Turkey, he said, wanted to establish normal bilateral relations with all neighbors.
Second, regional integration would reduce “hub-and-spoke” effects between the EU and the Maghreb – effects that arise when a large “hub” country or region signs bilateral trade deals with several smaller countries.
The US trade deficit is a multilateral imbalance with many countries – 102 in all – not a bilateral problem with China.
Pushing for a bilateral investment treaty that relaxes caps on foreign ownership in both countries would be an important step in that direction.
Until now, efforts to resolve the conflict have been confined to the contours of the Oslo model, according to which the route to Palestinian self-determination traverses bilateral agreement on borders, settlements, territory, and the right of return.
For example, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his own bilateral meeting with Duterte this month, did raise concerns about the drug war in the Philippines.
Trump Is Strengthening Iran’s RadicalsSTANFORD – The United States and Iran have rarely agreed on how to proceed with nuclear talks or other elements of their bilateral relations.
And bilateral or regional trade deals can chip away at some of the barriers in the current global system.
Bilateral deals can help, but they can also lead to higher trade barriers for everyone else.
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