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Moreover, since South Korea’s new government took office earlier this year little progress has been made in relations between the two Koreas.
In 1973, as Sino-US relations were thawing, Mao admitted to Henry Kissinger that, though he did not believe reunification would come peacefully, "We can do without Taiwan for the time being, and let it come after 100 years...Why is there a need to be in such great haste?"
China must take to heart its newfound dynamism and strength, and write a new scenario for its relations with Taiwan that emphasizes persuasion instead of missiles.
Fortunately, this backing appears to have declined in the last year or so, following improvement in Colombia’s relations with these countries.
Despite ample historical evidence of peaceful inter-communal relations, many people – whether through simple ignorance of history or the need to assert the supremacy of one version of the truth – prefer to consecrate narratives of treachery and betrayal that perpetuate hatred.
Libya CallingVALLETTA, MALTA – The recent signing in Tripoli of “a comprehensive claims settlement” between the United States and Libya marks a new beginning not only in US-Libya relations, but between Libya and the rest of the world.
It thus removes a final hurdle to Libya establishing normal diplomatic and economic relations with the West and opens the way for US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Tripoli this week.
Clearly, the way is now open for US-Libya relations to move forward in the same way that the release of a group of Bulgarian nurses, who were jailed in Libya on charges of deliberately infecting Libyan children with AIDS, unblocked European Union-Libya relations.
Indeed, Libya has also just strengthened its relations with the EU: Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s long-serving ruler, Muammar al-Gaddafi, recently declared that soon the two sides should be able to sign an Association agreement, giving Libyan goods access to European markets.
In his effort to restore seemingly irreparably damaged relations with the West, Gaddafi has played the oil and gas cards that he holds extremely well.
Since his election in June, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has signaled a more moderate stance in his country’s international relations.
On the middle board of economic relations among countries, the world is already multipolar.
On the bottom board of transnational relations outside the control of governments – pandemics, climate change, the drug trade, or transnational terrorism, for example – power is chaotically distributed.
New bus routes between India and Pakistan may not make headlines, but they deliver a degree of normalcy to relations riddled with mistrust.
Western observers placed the blame on Asian countries’ lack of transparency and on overly close relations between firms and governments – what they described as “crony capitalism.”
In this difficult international context, Cristina Kirchner will need to rebuild relations with the United States and Europe, which have been impaired since the default in 2001.
In fact, many countries began to pursue improved bilateral relations with China, in order to gain access to its capital.
For China, mending relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors, which have been damaged by territorial disputes, is a higher priority.
The Chinese today frequently discuss a policy of “great country relations” and “win-win” arrangements.
Moreover, the US should encourage better relations between China and South Korea.
It is widely believed in the region that the US frowns upon closer relations, as if more China in South Korea’s future means less America.
But does the legitimate interest in knowing more about a politician extend to details about personal relations?
When Barack Obama became President of the United States, he promised a new chapter in relations between the Islamic world and the West.
Although there have been many obstacles on the road to good relations, this year could provide a unique opportunity to forge a new discourse of tolerance and understanding between the peoples of the Islamic world and the West.
In China’s relations with all of them, the potential use of military force was and remains an important factor.
Although Santos was both Uribe’s defense minister and preferred successor, relations between the two have soured.
Before I became Soviet leader in 1985, relations between the Cold War superpowers had hit rock bottom.
If it is terminal, then, given the present power relations in the world, it can only lead to one alternative, namely international anarchy, because there is no existent system and no possible combination of states that can supplant the role which the United States currently plays.
The American relationship with China will have a significant impact on America's and China's relations with Russia, and again feed back on Russia's relationship with America and Russia's relationship with China; but it will also have a significant impact on the role that Japan plays on the world scene.
Sino-American relations are susceptible to hysteria, in terms of American public opinion, and to hysterical manipulation insofar as Chinese public opinion is concerned.
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