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The EU has long insisted that a legally binding divorce settlement must be concluded before there can be any discussion of future UK-EU relations.
But now Britain is suspected of exploiting the Irish question to insinuate a detailed “political declaration” about future relations into the formal exit agreement.
The key problem is the so-called Irish backstop, which would prevent the establishment of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the absence of a wider deal on the future of UK-EU relations.
For the first time in its history, Mexico is on the verge of four simultaneous accomplishments: real democracy, economic prosperity, social cohesion, and good relations with the United States.
While Ahmedinejad continues his verbal attacks on the US, he does not control the policy-making apparatus that will decide about Iran’s nuclear program and its relations with the international community.
Syria endured decades of French dominance after WWI, and then alternatingly hot and cold relations with the US and Europe since the 1960s.
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King warned of an outbreak of “border warfare,” diplomacy-speak for deteriorating political relations.
Most striking is Turkey’s renewal of relations with Russia without damaging its ties to the newly independent post-Soviet states.
Taiwan’s December 2004 legislative elections had delivered an unexpected defeat for Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and the pro-independence camp’s failure to secure a legislative majority was seen as a positive development for relations with the mainland.
Coming in the same week as China’s poorly handled removal of Tung Chee-hwa as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, the anti-secession law episode illustrates that the mainland’s PR savvy has its limits and that Taiwan will remain an emotional and divisive thorn in the side of Sino-US relations.
A few months later, when China and Japan normalized their post-World War II relations, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai about the Senkakus, and was told that rather than let the dispute delay normalization, the issue should be left for future generations.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will have to manage relations with firebrand Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his followers, who can provoke unrest in southern Iraq if they feel under-served.
While recent developments raise the risk that the crisis could escalate, they also present an opportunity to enhance US-Russia cooperation, and give the “reset” of bilateral relations strategic substance and concrete impetus.
In trying to depict its current dealings with Africa as “win-win” cooperation, China deliberately seeks to portray Africa’s current relations with the West as exploitative.
Revealed to a visiting American journalist during a private dinner with the Crown Prince, the plan centers on a “full normalization” of relations between Israel and all Arab countries, in return for an Israeli withdrawal from all the Palestinian territories it occupied in 1967.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Saudi leaders have felt pressed to accommodate public revulsion about the mistreatment of the Palestinians, but worry that doing so may even further jeopardize their now brittle relations with America.
America’s seemingly hostile attention gave rise to the speculation that Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative really denotes a Saudi public relations counteroffensive, hatched in the Saudi embassy in Washington to cover over the rift with the US.
Indeed, the subsequent, deafening silence by other Saudi leaders to the proposal appears to confirm it as a public relations move for which they need not risk any of their own domestic political capital.
The idea of normalizing relations with Israel has incited fierce hostility among some imams in the mosques as well as on the Internet.
Second, the question of foreign, and especially Russian, depositors – along with proximity to Syria – has turned the rescue of the Cypriot banking sector into an international relations problem.
The Indian leader, whom I have known for years, had said that he wanted better relations with Pakistan as one his legacies.
He and Singh also found time during the game to talk about bilateral relations, and agreed to launch what came to be called the “composite dialogue,” covering eight contentious issues that had soured ties for so long.
It was Gilani who sat next to Singh to watch the game; but, ultimately, process, rather than protocol, will determine how bilateral relations move forward.
We have been here before, of course, only to see prospects for improved India-Pakistan relations snuffed out.
Indeed, the resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States, and the suspension of a US investment ban, indicate that transformation has already taken place.
In international relations, to be humiliated means more than to be embarrassed.
India has a long history of relations with Europe, going back to the days of the Roman Empire.
But, in practice, these affinities have not translated into close political or strategic relations.
In 1963, India was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the European Economic Community (the predecessor to today’s EU), and the India-EU Strategic Partnership and Joint Action Plan of 2005 and 2008 offer a framework for security cooperation.
Another important impediment to India-EU relations is that Indians don’t like anyone lecturing to them.
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