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Trump wants China to reduce its bilateral trade surplus with the US by $100 billion, which it could do by buying $100 billion worth of US oil or gas.
Trump’s focus on the bilateral trade deficit is, frankly, silly.
Even taking into account imports of materials tied to Chinese-built infrastructure, this is an exceptionally wide bilateral deficit.
But one way to make an educated guess is to compare both countries’ history of bilateral engagement with China.
Such examples of bilateral nuclear-security cooperation, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s nuclear-security peer-review service, highlight a promising point: a willingness to work together on nuclear-materials security need not compromise sensitive information.
Xi returned the favor, and used his trip to Cairo to commemorate 60 years of bilateral diplomatic relations.
Egypt and China have agreed to a number of massive bilateral deals.
By 2000, China’s bilateral trade surplus was as large as Japan’s; by 2004, it was twice as large.
We propose that, with the G20’s political backing, African governments, international organizations, and bilateral partners prepare comprehensive, country-specific investment compacts to encourage private-sector investment.
Afterwards, these five countries, together with international organizations and bilateral partners, will select the specific measures and instruments to be included in each individual investment compact.
By maintaining an undervalued currency, China is preventing the US from reducing its bilateral trade deficit.
On the seventh day of “the week that changed the world,” as Nixon called it, he and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed the “Shanghai Communiqué,” which began the normalization of bilateral relations and bound the United States, a principal supporter of Taiwan, to the People’s Republic’s doctrine of “One China.”
Forty years later, the US-China relationship has grown exponentially to become arguably the most important and complex bilateral relationship in the world.
It was never brought up at any of the numerous high-level bilateral meetings, nor at any meeting in which I participated.
The list of issues dividing these two important and powerful countries is thus long and difficult, reinforcing the pessimism of those who predict that the bilateral relationship will continue to sour.
Booming bilateral trade, far from helping to turn the page on old rifts, has been accompanied by increasing border incidents, military tensions, and geopolitical rivalry, as well as disagreements on riparian and maritime issues.
Nonetheless, in his zeal to build the bilateral relationship, Modi announced that Chinese tourists are now eligible to receive electronic visas on arrival in India – blindsiding his foreign secretary, who had just told the media that no such decision had been made.
This will worsen India’s already massive trade deficit with China, while doing little to boost China’s meager investment in India, which totals just 1% of China’s annual bilateral trade surplus – a surplus that has swelled by one-third since Modi took office and is now approaching $50 billion.
As hard as Modi tries to put a positive spin on his recent visit to China, highlighting the 24 mostly symbolic agreements that were concluded, he cannot obscure the harsh strategic realities affecting the bilateral relationship.
And during his second term, his secretary of state, John Kerry, led a heroic nine-month effort – involving almost a hundred bilateral meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders – that simply petered out.
Turkey, a NATO member, is thus a party to this conflict now, and any military flare-up between Armenians and Azerbaijanis might draw it in – possibly triggering Russia’s involvement, either through its bilateral commitments to Armenia, or through the Collective Security Treaty Organization, of which Armenia and Russia are members.
The problem is that Turkey initially closed the border precisely because of Nagorno-Karabakh, rather than any bilateral issue.
But, at a time when both countries cannot afford to permit partisan or sloppy abuses of history to roil their bilateral relations, Asahi’s careless work has turned out to be more than abysmal journalism; it has introduced a dangerous element into regional diplomacy.
For too long, intemperate historical debates – often driven by biased newspaper accounts – have poisoned bilateral relations.
All of this is implicitly recognized in the newly ratified India-US accord, which survived tough bilateral negotiations, codification of its provisions into US law, and unanimous approval in August by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Bilateral trade is booming.
Governments in poor and developing countries have been promoting projects to distribute off-grid RETs for decades, supported by multilateral institutions, bilateral aid programs, or non-governmental organizations.
Earlier this month, US President Barack Obama officially classified Venezuela as an “extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” and ordered sanctions against seven officials, thereby stoking bilateral tensions.
The US wants to reduce the bilateral trade deficit and repatriate manufacturing jobs.
The trade confrontation between the US and China will also affect bilateral investment flows.
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