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Walker's World: A 'fudge' for France
Jun 17, 2013 (UPI)
Diplomacy has a language all its own from demarche for an initiative to bout de papier for a very informal proposal. But one of the most useful is "fudge" -- an...
Japan fears losing diplomatic buffet battle to China
Jun 17, 2013 (AFP)
Belt-tightening in Japan's diplomatic service is cutting the quality of canapes on offer abroad, the foreign ministry has said, leading to fears Tokyo is losing...
Dangers and delights of digital diplomacy
Jun 14, 2013 (AFP)
Amid the explosion of social media and new networking tools, governments and businesses are grappling with balancing their security needs against their wish to ...
Outside View: The third Russian Revolution
Jun 12, 2013 (UPI)
Make no mistake: On the current trajectory, Russia won't be immune to many of the forces that provoked the so-called colored revolutions in adjacent states and ...
Japan, US stage joint island retaking drill
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
Japan and the United States have started a joint drill to practise retaking remote islands, the Japanese government said Tuesday, as Tokyo and Beijing continue ...
Obama already fulfilling West Point promises on diplomacy
Jun 10, 2013 (UPI)
Last Friday's meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted 15 minutes at most. Yet the symbolic significance of that ...
Obama, Xi forge rapport in debut summit
Jun 08, 2013 (AFP)
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping ended their first US-China summit Saturday, forging a rapport and policy understandings, if not breakthroughs, on North Korea, clima...
Rising China propels Xi into Obama summit: analysts
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
Smiling benignly as he strolls among schoolchildren or nods to sailors on the deck of a warship, President Xi Jinping epitomises China's new-found confidence as...
Obama, Xi stir intrigue with desert oasis summit
Jun 05, 2013 (AFP)
An unusual sense of anticipation is building ahead of US President Barack Obama's first summit with new Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a secluded and storied ...
Outside View: Trapped in the cul de sac of no good choices
Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)
Unlike the past when the United States faced potentially existential dangers, from the Revolution to the Civil War, Great Depression, World War II and the Cold ...
US inventor allowed out by China ahead of summit
Jun 05, 2013 (AFP)
A US inventor who was prevented from leaving China for nearly five years in a row over trade secrets has been allowed home, Beijing said Wednesday, ahead of a p...
Outside View: Obama appeasement of China, Japan wrecking recovery
Jun 03, 2013 (UPI)
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to report Tuesday the April deficit on U.S. international trade in goods and services was $41.2 billion, up from $24.9 ...
Walker's World: Brits who hate the White House
Jun 03, 2013 (UPI)
The image is deliberately provocative and arresting. It depicts the White House with the gaps between its pillars draped in swastika flags while a battalion of ...
China's first lady shines on LatAm trip with Xi
Jun 02, 2013 (AFP)
President Xi Jinping made history as the first Chinese leader to visit Trinidad and Tobago, but it is his glamorous wife Peng Liyuan who has turned the trip int...
China distances itself from claim it owns Okinawa
Jun 02, 2013 (AFP)
A top Chinese general on Sunday sought to distance the country from claims by some of its scholars that the Ryukyu Islands, which include Okinawa, do not belong...
Colombia heads toward NATO membership
Jun 01, 2013 (AFP)
Colombia's defense ministry later this month will sign a cooperation agreement with NATO, in hopes of joining the international military alliance, President Jua...
Bradley Manning: Heroic whistleblower or US traitor?
Jun 01, 2013 (AFP)
From a swivel chair and a small desk in a military courtroom in Maryland, Bradley Manning has for more than a year heard US government lawyers outline why he sh...
US invites ASEAN defence chiefs to Hawaii meeting
Jun 01, 2013 (AFP)
The United States on Saturday offered to host a meeting with Southeast Asian defence ministers in Hawaii next year, stepping up its efforts to counter growing C...
NATO summit to enshrine Obama's war-ending legacy
May 31, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will use a NATO summit next year to write the "final chapter" of America's longest war, in Afghanistan, hoping to cement a legacy root...
China in spotlight as US defence chief arrives in Asia
May 31, 2013 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Singapore on Friday for an Asia-Pacific security conference at which he is expected to press China on cyberattacks a...
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