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The two countries’ recent rapprochement marks a considerable change from the hostility that bedeviled their relations following their 1962 war over a disputed border in the Himalayas.
China’s rise has also created anxiety in Japan, again despite professions of good relations during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s recent visit to Tokyo.
Improved relations between India and the US can structure the international situation in a manner that encourages such an evolution in Chinese policy, whereas trying to isolate China would be a mistake.
By transcending strictly national limits, these treaties chart the future path of European defense and will help determine the course of Europe’s relations with the United States and NATO.
The crown jewel of this effort was the normalization of relations with Cuba in 2016.
The speaker was not some public relations executive, but Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Consider that the violent extremists have their own “media relations committees” aimed at manipulating elite opinion.
That requires instituting 24-hour press operations centers and elevating Internet operations and other channels to the status of traditional twentieth-century press relations.
China’s intentions and practices have long been an irritant in Sino-American relations.
If he succeeds, something like a six-nation “contact group” (France, the UK, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Italy) will have formed to determine EU relations with the US.
And only one major foreign-policy test for Obama has clear implications for the US economy and job creation: the need to recalibrate relations with China in a way that restores balance to bilateral trade.
US-Saudi relations had reached a nadir during former US President Barack Obama’s tenure, but they have now been reset.
Moreover, all Pacific countries have a real desire to normalize their relations with a nation growing at such an astounding rate.
A “Reset” Button for Europe’s BackyardSTOCKHOLM – One year after the war in Georgia of last August, pushing the “reset” button on diplomatic relations is a popular endeavor nowadays.
The European Union, though not in need of a “reset” because of strained ties with its eastern neighbors, is involved in a deep strategic reconstruction of those relations.
The Eastern Partnership – originating from a Polish/Swedish initiative – offers to the six countries a substantial upgrading and deepening of relations with the EU in key areas.
In trade and economic relations, it clearly sets out the objective of establishing deep and comprehensive free-trade areas between the EU and the partner countries.
This change, however, is also creating anxieties about shifting power relations among states.
In 2010, for example, as China became more assertive in its foreign policy toward its neighbors, its relations with India, Japan, and South Korea suffered.
During the last couple of years, the Franco-German relations have dramatically deteriorated; as a consequence, it has become visible that the revitalisation of this special relationship is the necessary (though not sufficient) condition for the EU to become a relevant player in world politics.
Abe has placed particular emphasis on strengthening Japan’s alliance with the Unites States, which had atrophied as a result of the DPJ government’s feckless behavior (relations with China deteriorated as well).
Hungary, the other "hereditary enemy," is a fellow NATO ally; relations with Ukraine are nasty, but peaceful.
He achieved an enviable rate of economic development for a country starved of natural resources, helped to eradicate poverty, and deepened Tunisia’s ties with Europe through tourism, trade, and cultural relations.
The answers will determine China’s relations with the world, and vice versa, for the next decade.
Xi may address Chinese diplomacy’s thorniest issues – particularly Sino-US relations – with more realism and flexibility than in recent years.
Most important, instead of spending countless hours drearily discussing political and strategic topics, he spoke directly and vigorously about the current state of Sino-US relations.
Europe must also contribute to reforming the traditional system of international relations.
Most significantly, Italy is leading an effort to repair relations with Russia after the Ukraine confrontation and to strengthen cooperation over Syria.
China’s moves to strengthen its African ties have three objectives: to consolidate secure energy and mineral supplies, to curtail Taiwan’s influence on the continent (which harbours six of the 26 countries with which it maintains full diplomatic relations), and to augment China’s burgeoning global authority.
Yet closer relations have brought controversy.
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