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Most Europeans take it for granted that the US will attack Iraq, and that this act of unilateralism, coming in the wake of all the other irritants such as the ABM Treaty, the Kyoto Agreement, the steel tariffs and the International Criminal Court, will have a devastating effect on transatlantic relations.
The recent, unexpected improvement in relations between the muddling Eurasian power and the rising Asian power result from a marriage of convenience.
These private assurances calmed relations with Indonesia.
"It’s a very lively and active regional group that has opened new relations and opportunities for all members," said Rejaie Khorasani, member of parliament and former ambassador to the United Nations, in an interview.
At the same time, the US must engage candidly with China on a longer-term vision for what possible Korean reunification would mean for both countries and their relations with the Republic of Korea.
The European Union may not be far behind; much will depend on how China presents its case over the coming 18 months as the two sides negotiate a wide-ranging Partnership Cooperation Agreement, which will determine the quality of bilateral relations for the next decade.
But trade will probably not be the main worry for China’s international relations.
A growing number of countries are recognizing that reciprocity should guide their relations with China.
His efforts to establish a personal connection with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – the first foreign leader he hosted at Mar-a-Lago, his “Winter White House” – and the high priority his administration is assigning to relations with India and South Korea are positive signs.
On the contrary, beyond weakening relations with America’s closest allies, Trump’s tactics have increased tensions with Russia, thereby increasing what economists call the “shadow price” of national security.
But at the very moment when even slightest glance at the crisis-ridden region on Europe’s eastern flank – Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Middle East conflict, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, Islamic terrorism, emigration, and threats to Europe’s energy supplies – should make clear Turkey’s paramount importance to European security, Europe is reveling in its disinterest in the state of European-Turkish relations.
A sense of alienation towards the West is spreading, and Turkey’s diplomatic relations with Russia have reached a hitherto unknown intimacy.
In European-Turkish relations, two trains are racing headlong towards each other.
While Abe has not acted on these campaign statements, some observers remain convinced that he will visit Yasukuni at some point, further straining Japan’s relations with South Korea and China.
A few months later, when China and Japan were working to normalize relations, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai about the islets;Zhou responded that the dispute should be left to later generations, in order to avoid any delay of normalization.
As a result, nuclear tensions are likely to bedevil US-Iranian relations for years to come.
Whatever the rhetoric in France, for example, the policies and attitudes in countries such as Britain or Poland demonstrate that good trans-Atlantic relations can be maintained.
Beyond damaging relations with the EU, the UK’s actions could undermine efforts to address Europe’s economic, social, and identity crises.
Iran’s leaders, who closely follow Israeli political debates, believe that Israel would not launch an assault on their nuclear facilities without America’s full cooperation, because unilateral action would jeopardize Israel’s relations with its most important strategic ally.
Iranians today are far less optimistic about repairing relations with the West, and particularly with the US.
Each time in the last hundred years that a shift of this magnitude has occurred in beliefs about state-market relations, a major political-economic upheaval has ensued.
It must greatly reduce the technocratic aspects of its approach to external action, and at the same time make its relations with southern Mediterranean countries a top priority.
Those who think most about friendly relations with others have a “need for affiliation.”
And yet, unless China improves its relations with its neighbors, its international image will continue to take a beating.
But Indo-Japanese relations must extend beyond the realm of security – something that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has pursued enhanced bilateral ties more vigorously than any other Japanese leader, seems to grasp.
At the RAND Corporation, for example, a team of researchers has laid out a comprehensive approach to building a successful Palestinian state, covering governance, security, education, health, water, investment – as well as long-term economic relations with Israel and the outside world.
In exchange for action on the North-South and Darfur peace efforts, the US would implement a clear, sequenced, and binding path to normalization of relations.
Peace and security in Darfur should be an essential benchmark for normalized relations between the US and Sudan.
The existing power relations in the Middle East have indeed been permanently shaken and, indeed, revolutionized.
Instead of the intended radical realignment of power relations in the region, the aim is now to simply maintain the status quo.
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