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Hu's move lifted bilateral relations out of the deep freeze, where China's previous leadership had consigned them following Koizumi's repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, where the spirits of Japan's war dead, including Class A war criminals, are enshrined.
Clearly, the war on terrorism presented China with opportunities to strengthen both its relations with the US and its ties with nations across the Pacific.
“Divorce” discussions are now underway to determine how much the British will pay the EU, and what future trade relations will look like.
Once a woman had given her initial consent to the marriage “contract,” she had no right to retract her consent to sexual relations – ever.
That has not only complicated its relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors, which have watched China’s rise with growing trepidation, but also with the United States, which maintains treaty ties with several of those states.
Trump’s campaign has been marked by bellicose nationalism and anti-immigrant proposals – from the construction of a massive wall to keep out immigrants to a ban on all Muslims from entering the US – as well as reckless criticisms of America’s relations with friends and foes alike.
The other three are Syria’s behavior in Iraq, its relations with the US, and the need for domestic reform.
Syria’s suspected support for Iraqi Baathist exiles threatens to damage relations with the new Iraq.
Though tensions between China and its neighbors over territorial claims in the East and South China Seas have receded somewhat in recent months, the prospect of worsening Sino-Japanese relations, in particular, remains worrisome.
But Iran’s lack of diplomatic relations with the US means that it is not involved in trying to structure a viable peace accord to stabilize Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Western troops.
Post-Soviet Free TradeEver since the Soviet Union collapsed, the independent states that emerged from the wreckage have tried to sort out their trade relations.
It pointed out that under the Conservatives relations between Britain and the European Union (EU) had deteriorated sharply.
In other words, Britain's relations with Europe will reach a crisis point.
Europe and Russia meet in Ukraine, and its fate will not only be a crucial factor in defining European security, but will also play a substantial role in future European-Russian relations.
With an independent, democratic Ukraine, European-Russian relations will have a completely different, and much more positive, character than if its role were to fundamentally change and history be reversed.
The belief that principles, values, and rules hold at least some weight in international relations has a stabilizing effect.
Perhaps of greater importance for long-term security, the US-Pakistan relationship continues to plumb new depths, while Iran’s relations with the West go from bad to worse, marred most recently by the mob invasion of the British Embassy in Tehran in November.
India and the US have also been strengthening their strategic relations with Japan, not only bilaterally, but also in a unique trilateral way, which US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has suggested could “reshape the international system.”
So far, India’s security relations with Japan and South Korea are somewhat understated.
Rebuilding the EU’s relations with Ukraine and the other countries to the Union’s east would, however, also help shape relations with Russia, which today is facing a series of strategic challenges: relations with the USSR’s former republics; the proximity of a dynamic China; the exposed emptiness of Siberia; the future of Central Asia’s energy resources, around which the nineteenth-century “great game” between Russia, China, India, and America is restarting.
This requires better relations with all of the world’s rising powers.
Some African countries, such as Kenya, are eager to explore new horizons in trade relations; we should encourage and enable them to do so.
The big question for 2013 is whether Morsi will follow his achievement in Gaza by tackling another major diplomatic challenge: rebuilding relations with Iran after more than three decades of animosity.
Iran has made some efforts to establish stronger economic relations with Egypt’s Islamist government and, in turn, cement a powerful anti-Israel front in the region.
Moreover, the Sunni-Shia divide could pose a major challenge for Egypt-Iran relations.
The spirit of cooperation, along with constructive competition, should structure relations between all players that possess international legitimacy.
What she brings to this task is openness and an eagerness to construct a new architecture for Sino-US relations.
The receptiveness of the Chinese will reflect the degree to which both countries advance the discussion from theory to practice, as well as stabilizing their relations.
China should take up Clinton’s call for collaboration on climate change, which could possibly become a paradigm-shifting issue in Sino-US relations, much as the united front against the Soviet Union did in 1972, when Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger went to China to begin normalizing relations.
It is not that the Bush administration left Sino-US relations in such bad repair, but that the possibilities for a substantial change for the better have never been greater.
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