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For starters, Japan's leaders should either forswear visits to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, or find a creative way to have the souls of the 14 Class A war criminals that it honors moved elsewhere.
Likewise, in Alcatraz, prisoners had access to a fully stocked library, monthly visits from loved ones, and mail delivery.
At Gitmo, contrary to Red Cross rules, prisoners may not receive visits or mail from family, their reading is dramatically curtailed, and news is censored.
Just a few months ago, the bilateral relationship had sunk to an all-time post-war low, owing to a toxic cocktail of territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Japan’s handling of its wartime history (particularly prime ministerial visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine), and Chinese fears about Japanese rearmament.
The visits reflect the more active foreign-policy approach that Xi has spearheaded, particularly in the Middle East.
Likewise, after Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act, which encourages official visits between the US and the island, China staged war games against Taiwan and bribed the Dominican Republic to break diplomatic ties with the Taiwanese government.
On previous visits, we had heard reports of atrocities committed by RUF rebels, including amputations, rapes, and mutilations of civilians in the countryside.
There are also reports of visits by high officials to Hongdong.
To ensure greater transparency, the Chinese authorities should lift restrictions on visits by independent international media and human-rights monitors to provide as accurate a picture of the situation on the ground as possible.
It is not too late for Trump to behave like a leader, looking beyond himself and speaking clearly to the world, though such an approach seems unlikely after his recent visits to the Middle East and to Europe.
My visits as chairman of the AMR review also allowed me to witness some encouraging signs.
Turkey’s Transatlantic ValueWASHINGTON, DC – The Turkey that German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits this week is a very different place from the Turkey that began European Union accession talks five years ago.
More recently, after Japanese maritime officials arrested a Chinese fishing-boat captain near the disputed Senkaku islands, China responded harshly with arrests of Japanese businessmen, cancelation of student visits, and suspension of exports of rare-earth minerals upon which key Japanese industries depend.
This may be hidden from President Bush when he visits China next month, but it is there all the same.
The regime’s resistance to formal in loco visits by UN and OAS bodies and special rapporteurs has not stopped them from producing such reports and substantiating their findings by other means.
One of my visits was to Sderot, a community of about 20,000 in southern Israel that is frequently struck by rudimentary rockets fired from nearby Gaza.
The island’s leaders never denounced Christianity as fully as the Soviets did, and over the last 20 years it has been the site of three papal visits: John Paul II in 1998, Benedict XVI in 2012, and Francis in 2015.
And recent exchanges and visits seem to give some cause for optimism.
In the past, Xi’s state visits have often coincided with significant strides in bilateral cooperation.
In my frequent visits to rural areas of my native Sierra Leone, I have seen more than a few health facilities that communities could do without.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visits to Georgia and Russia proved that there is no substitute for Europe insofar as the Caucasus is concerned.
The same day, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticized China for unexpectedly curtailing American ship visits to Chinese ports because of American arms sales to Taiwan.
In fact, such provocations have often preceded visits to India by Chinese leaders.
This pattern suggests that the central objective of Chinese leaders’ visits to India is not to advance cooperation on a shared agenda, but to reinforce China’s own interests, beginning with its territorial claims.
His official visits to China and South Korea – two key countries with which relations suffered under the administration of Junichiro Koizumi – came within a week of his taking office and at a moment of crisis, with North Korea setting off an underground nuclear blast.
And yet there was a common element in Wen’s Hungary and UK visits: in each case, China offered financing for British and Hungarian firms to invest in China.
The Trump-Duterte Drug War TangoNEW YORK – When US President Donald Trump visits the Philippines this weekend, on the last stop of his marathon trip to Asia, he will pay respects to President Rodrigo Duterte.
His refusal to rule out future visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, with its war-glorifying Yushukan Museum alongside, fuels hardline skepticism in China.
In 2006, South Korea launched a yearlong, amply-financed outreach campaign that targeted all 15 Security Council members with official visits in their capitals, and that often dangled significant bilateral carrots – gestures that other candidates had neither the time nor the resources to offer.
Why is it that the call for transparency seems to apply only to countries that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits, rather than to the one that she represents?
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