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But, despite shared ideological principles, significant political obstacles continue to inhibit bilateral cooperation.
And now, with the US announcement that it will build the anti-missile defense system on a bilateral basis with Poland and the Czech Republic, there is also a hawk circling overhead.
An anti-missile defense system in Europe is a European, not a bilateral, issue.
But bilateral treatment of the issue threatens to do just that: to divide Europe along the same fault lines as did the war in Iraq.
As the EU’s Russia policy is blocked by the Polish government’s intransigence, Russia blithely continues to sign more bilateral treaties with individual EU member states, most recently with Greece and Bulgaria.
While South Korean President Lee Myung-bak held bilateral talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, talks between Noda and Hu, and a scheduled meeting between Keidanren Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, were also canceled.
At the same time, however, purely bilateral negotiations between individual EU members and oil- and gas-producing countries weakens the member states’ bargaining power, as well as undermining Europe’s geopolitical weight in world affairs.
It’s probable that by March there will be an agreement on reducing the bilateral trade deficit and the import decisions that China will make to see it through.
China is also likely to enjoy a calmer relationship with India, following the bilateral summit in Wuhan in April.
Indeed, Brown, for whom America remains “Britain’s most important bilateral relationship,” recently blocked his foreign secretary, David Miliband, from delivering a speech that he considered excessively pro-Europe.
Parallel to the growth agenda, there is a specific role for bilateral and multilateral diplomacy to play in support of improved governance.
With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of fronts – including cyber security, territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas, and currency policy – the summit offers an opportunity for a serious reconsideration of the relationship between the world’s two most powerful countries.
China blames the US for fixating on a bilateral imbalance as the source of America’s multilateral problem.
Both countries should press ahead with a bilateral investment treaty, which would enhance rules-based market access and eventually foster greater trade liberalization.
The increasing role of the Indian diaspora in the US, particularly in the information industries, also had an influence, as has the rise in bilateral trade accompanying India’s surging economic growth.
While committed to the bilateral US-Japan alliance, Ozawa has said that Japan’s security requires the continued presence only of the US Seventh Fleet, not of US ground troops.
Thus, only bilateral help seems possible, perhaps coordinated by the EU and coupled with strong supervision of the Greek budget and Greece’s statistical office.
Peaceful co-existence, not mounting bilateral tension, is in both countries’ best interest.
Today, however, the bilateral relationship is very different.
Moreover, the long-simmering dispute over the US Marine Corps base on Okinawa, which had roiled bilateral relations during the years the Democratic Party of Japan was in power, has been settled amicably, with the US agreeing to move the base to a less populated part of the island.
Abe’s visit to the US thus comes at a moment of clarity in bilateral relations.
This amounts to a saving of about 1.4% of GDP – the actual number will perhaps be larger by a few decimal points here and there when the effects of bilateral debt forgiveness are added.
In addition, many of the bilateral credits now being canceled were in reality commercial credit guarantees which benefitted businesses in creditor countries more than poor countries.
ChinaWhat China does will have almost as much influence as President Obama on the future of the global economy, and Chinese-American relations will be the most important bilateral relationship in the world.
Yet, with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month, it seems that the status quo in the bilateral relationship – crucial for global trade, growth, and stability – will be maintained.
Moreover, the US accepted China’s proposal to revamp the framework for bilateral engagement by creating the US-China Comprehensive Dialogue, consisting of four sub-dialogues: diplomacy and security, economic issues, law enforcement and cybersecurity, and social and cultural affairs.
But politicians (and the general public) tend to focus on bilateral trade deficits with individual countries, like the $300 billion imbalance between the US and China.
They blame the bilateral deficit on Chinese policies that block imports of US products and subsidize Chinese exports to the US.
If China changed its trade policies in ways that reduced the bilateral deficit, the US trade deficit with some other country would increase, or its surplus with some other country would shrink.
Instead, we see trade negotiations being conducted under the threat of such tariffs – and leading to market opening for some products and services in countries with which the US has a bilateral deficit.
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