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In fact, according to diplomats who were there, Zhou was discussing not the revolution of 1789, but the 1968 student uprising in Paris, so it probably really was too soon to tell.
Yet diplomats and military professionals in Asia and beyond were certainly watching closely.
This method was highly successful during the post-war period of European reconstruction, because it allowed diplomats and officials from different countries to bypass national disagreements or lingering resentments and address the continent’s most pressing problems.
The common opinion among British colonial civil servants, businessmen, and diplomats was that the Chinese were not really interested in politics anyway; all they cared about was money.
From the perspective of US diplomats, the people of every country stand on the same footing as their government.
In August 2008, European diplomats scrambled to stop the fighting.
I have met with dozens of Sudanese politicians and diplomats, and I know that the regime in Khartoum is authoritarian, self-interested, and ruthless.
And if China has to press this claim in order to appease ultra-nationalist elements, it should do so by deploying diplomats, rather than its military.
The envoys would be senior diplomats and politicians who could tap the highest levels of government to challenge abuses of international law, cut red tape, and apply pressure on warring parties to agree to local ceasefires.
The Morality of Amorality in Foreign PolicyWhen it comes to morality, diplomats are usually seen as cold and calculating.
Diplomats Behaving BadlyNEW YORK – Diplomats, normally discreet figures who rarely court publicity, have been in the news a lot lately, for all the wrong reasons.
Two recent arrests of diplomats by their host countries have put a spotlight on the justification for, and limits of, the immunity from local law that such officials typically enjoy.
According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, diplomats cannot be prosecuted according to a host country’s laws.
Because consular officials do not enjoy the same degree of immunity as higher-ranking diplomats, the police were acting within their authority, even if their methods – strip-searching Khobragade, for example – might be considered excessive.
US diplomats were stripped of customary privileges.
Threats were made to arrest same-sex partners of US diplomats, because Indian law criminalizes homosexuality.
But, because diplomats are their countries’ official representatives abroad, their symbolic function is much more important than their individual personalities.
Diplomats have always represented the face of their country, but their own faces have changed.
In the past, diplomats did not actually represent nation-states, but royal courts (in most monarchies this is still officially the case).
As a result, European diplomats, for example, were mostly aristocrats, who all spoke French to one another.
And the British parliament enacted a new law protecting diplomats from suffering similar treatment in the future.
As with their politicians, a country’s people, it seems, often have the diplomats they deserve.
Even Sharon ventures a few favorable comments, and American diplomats express visible sighs of relief that progress toward peace can at last be made.
Recently, it was revealed that China has been conducting wide-ranging influence operations in Australia, using official campus organizations to monitor Chinese college students, business associations to tout Chinese interests, and diplomats to police local Chinese-language media.
Russian diplomats, whose outlook also remains largely shaped by the Cold War, seized on the proposal.
Politicians, diplomats, and generals in conflict-ridden countries typically treat these crises as they would any other political or military challenge.
Unlike outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he surrounds himself with very skillful and experienced diplomats.
Chinese diplomats have not responded directly, but they have noticeably hardened their stand on climate talks.
This would augment the diplomatic and moral capital available to diplomats as they strive to restrain nuclear proliferation in a world where more countries than ever have the wherewithal to construct a nuclear bomb.
Indeed, 23 years after dissident Fang Lizhi took refuge in the US embassy following the crackdown in Tiananmen Square, Chen’s only option was to take the same last-gasp leap into the arms of American diplomats.
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