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It enters into negotiations to extract concessions such as food aid, and then returns to its objectionable activities, thus starting the entire Sisyphean cycle again.
That is good news for everyone, but particularly for the Trump administration, given that it will almost certainly fail to secure any meaningful concessions from North Korea in the upcoming talks.
Only small concessions have been made to scaling back government intervention, affecting powers that are either irrelevant or never actually existed.
It is too early to praise the deal as an historic achievement, but it is also far too soon to peg it as a failure, or to suggest that better negotiators somehow could have done a better job of wrangling concessions from their Iranian counterparts.
Although both Europe and America accuse each other of unfair agricultural policies, neither side seems willing to make major concessions.
But the discussion should focus on direct measures to impede and undermine the country’s inherently aggressive nuclear program – not to offer more concessions that will only strengthen a rogue regime’s hand.
The left offered big concessions and was ready to take high risks for the sake of peace.
In addition, the world didn’t reward Israel for making concessions and taking risks.
Thus, regardless of who becomes prime minister, the next government will not commit to real concessions to the Palestinians in exchange for a two-state solution unless the result will be an end to the conflict and a long, stable peace.
The worry now is that the US will try to use the steel tariff as a bargaining chip to extract EU concessions in the automobile sector – a significant concern for Germany.
Trump has temporarily exempted those two countries from the tariffs, but now expects concessions from them in his administration’s renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Does he want to extract concessions from the EU in all industrial sectors in which US firms are lagging?
Hollande, too, will have to make concessions.
Both thought the other had agreed to meet because of weakness and had made major concessions.
Given international acceptance of the 2010 US-India bilateral nuclear deal – unfortunately, without concessions from India (like accession to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty or a cap on nuclear weapons) – Australia simply had no remaining policy leverage.
Not only does it advocate an Israeli presence in the West Bank (the Biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria); it also links territorial concessions to the Palestinians to the neutralization of existential threats emanating from the outer circle of the region.
Now, however, international acceptance of Iran as a nuclear-threshold state, together with the threat emanating from imploding Arab neighbors, flatly contradicts Netanyahu’s assumptions about the conditions that must be fulfilled for Israel to offer “painful concessions” to the Palestinians.
The Second Intifada, with its waves of suicide terrorist attacks that slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians, followed the Israeli concessions offered at the 2000 Camp David Summit.
The concessions it contains on manufactured products like automobiles are much smaller than those on, say, agricultural products, which will involve profound sacrifices from other TPP countries, such as Japan.
A debtor’s negotiating strategy is to make creditors believe that a collapse would produce some much bigger catastrophe, which can be avoided only by more concessions and more support.
Some opponents of the Iraq War, including me, believe that a fundamental – and deeply misguided – objective of the war from the outset has been to create a long-term military base (or bases) in Iraq, ostensibly to protect oil routes and oil concessions.
Two years later, she chose to leave the region, satisfied with Ottoman concessions on Crimea.
The negotiating formula of "land for peace" and "breakthroughs" like the Oslo accords failed to dampen the conflict because the Arabs understandably interpret Israeli concessions as signs of weakness.
Making concessions on macroeconomic policy could lead to cooperation in other fields.
Here Hamas members are simply reiterating Arafat’s views, which will continue to limit the concessions any new leader can make.
But in the end, Israel will also have to make a choice, because peace will require Israeli concessions, not just compromises from the Palestinians.
By calling for Japanese restraint, the US stoked Japan’s anxiety, without winning any concessions from China.
But to flatter Trump is one thing; to obtain significant diplomatic and trade concessions from him is quite another.
It seems unlikely, but when it comes to securing actual concessions, at least Merkel cannot do much worse.
Without concessions from its trading partners, including more reciprocity, the US, its government representatives unequivocally declared, would implement new tariffs on imports from Canada, the European Union, and Japan.
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