Their relationship is — speaking diplomatically — reserved. Reticent. Reluctant.
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" He then added, less diplomatically, "Look at Golden State.
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"Diplomatically this crisis is known around the world so the country's reputation has been hurt and that is a problem diplomatically," Ha Kyung-chull, a former judge on the Constitutional Court, told Reuters.
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So too is the likelihood of diverting North Korea diplomatically.
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But diplomatically, both sides are on a road to nowhere.
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Israel, always diplomatically unrecognizable, is now the enemy du jour.
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Both presidents defended freedom of the press publicly, and diplomatically.
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Khloé meanwhile, played it more diplomatically when talking to E!
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"I was not a fan of it," he said diplomatically.
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How did you tell people to be less picky diplomatically?
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"It continues to be a diplomatically led effort," Mattis said.
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"He was not himself a Broadway fan," she said diplomatically.
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"It will also weaken Vietnam diplomatically and strategically," he said.
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"You are totally entitled to your opinion," Bennet said diplomatically.
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So let's focus on how do we resolve this diplomatically.
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"It was a fun experience," he said simply (and maybe diplomatically).
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I would not have gone in that direction,'' Green said diplomatically.
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Harry diplomatically turned down the offer, giving her a handshake instead.
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"It had nothing to do with my stuff," Karp said diplomatically.
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" But, he added, "You can stop North Korea militarily or diplomatically.
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Many feared getting too close to China tied Britain's hands diplomatically.
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The Russians were warned diplomatically they were not the target before.
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Kershaw, being modest, diplomatically disagreed with that notion before Game 1.
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"If you abandon the field diplomatically, you needlessly cede to Iran."
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"I won't get into that," the Democratic front-runner said diplomatically.
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Modi's government has also waged a campaign to isolate Pakistan diplomatically.
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Does it mean something diplomatically to have the Senate say this?
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The ambassador called Mr Trump's administration "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept".
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"We'd love to solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult," Trump explained.
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Both countries have been moving diplomatically closer to Beijing in recent months.
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"In his early years he saw domestic violence," the sister says, diplomatically.
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Ahmadinejad's critics say his fiery anti-Western talk helped isolate Iran diplomatically.
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It has long backed Iran diplomatically and it has deep military ties.
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"I think we have different strengths in different areas," he says diplomatically.
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Diplomatically and economically, these new sanctions and expulsions won't change a thing.
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" Cohn responded diplomatically: "I'm supportive of the president in driving economic growth.
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Perhaps it's a sign that Tillerson is finally finding his way diplomatically.
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In his public, Pryor has been turning the other cheek acting diplomatically.
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"We'd love to solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult," he said.
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"We'd love to solve things diplomatically, but it's very difficult," he said.
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South Korea would continue trying to resolve the issue diplomatically, he said.
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"Other measures to isolate Taiwan diplomatically will also be taken," Lam continued.
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"Kanye has roots with house music, he's from Chicago," Vega says diplomatically.
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"No day is ever the same in this business," says Clivaz diplomatically.
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So let's say the US and North Korea start to engage diplomatically.
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"I have no doubt that they have a problem," he says diplomatically.
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Diplomatically, Russia wants Western sanction of its hardened military presence in Syria.
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"We'd love to solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult," he added.
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But once again, he punted, diplomatically skirting a question from Democratic Sen.
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Of course, Mr. Macron hasn't helped matters by hardly behaving diplomatically himself.
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He has challenged Washington's "One China" which recognizes Beijing and not Taipei diplomatically.
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Review your list of talking points and practice ways to address them diplomatically.
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Goldberg supposedly sent O'Donnell an "angry letter," and O'Donnell says she responded diplomatically.
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There would never be the end of this diplomatically without China&aposs help.
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"He was not very happy this morning," said Racing Director Eric Boullier, diplomatically.
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"A top aide puts it slightly more diplomatically: "He read the room. Instinctual.
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Mr Valls's comments, diplomatically tactless as they were, hardly seemed worth the response.
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But analysts say Pakistan is wary of becoming overly dependent diplomatically on Beijing.
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There is still time to resolve the crisis diplomatically before using military force.
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But this doesn't mean it has been all smooth sailing diplomatically in 2017.
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"We want to see one side in charge," the civilian told him diplomatically.
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Don't fix it diplomatically, use force — and you can get away with it.
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The spokesperson diplomatically claimed that businesses are still an important part of Messenger.
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All these things are financed by and diplomatically supported by the United States.
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So the Turks were forced to turn to Egypt — a diplomatically sensitive option.
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Mr Meserve had hoped the WTO could resolve the issue a bit more diplomatically.
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Putting things too diplomatically could cause the recipient not to take the message seriously.
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North Korea: Trump's desired course of action is to resolve the nuclear standoff diplomatically.
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Instead, a period of uncertainty, not only diplomatically but also economically and socially, looms.
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It is also not yet clear if the U.S. will diplomatically protest the incident.
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Meanwhile, their boss is like, Please shut up, we're trying to resolve this diplomatically.
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S. prisoner exchange, devised in secrecy, drove home the adversaries' desire to reengage diplomatically.
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Hence, the pressure to acquiesce to China diplomatically and on security issues is stronger.
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Diplomatically, a Trump withdrawal would drive a dangerous wedge between America and its allies.
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He suggested to King Salman that Saudi Arabia should consider engaging diplomatically with Iran.
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But since the deal doesn't deal with missiles, addressing this shortcoming is diplomatically easier.
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She's constantly taking the pulse of her members and diplomatically finds ways to respond.
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Deciding which jurisdictions end up on the European Union's blacklist could prove diplomatically sensitive.
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"Let's just say, it's very interesting diplomatically," Mr. Burke said of the pope's visit.
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Right now they don't seem certain of what their goal is diplomatically with Australia.
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President Trump has a well-documented history of eating — how to put this diplomatically?
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If she cannot even handle her aides diplomatically, she should not lead the nation.
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U.S. presence provided the infrastructure for other partners to contribute financially, diplomatically and militarily.
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Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a statement appealing to Western governments to intervene diplomatically.
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"In New York, everybody is living at such a fast pace," Joan ventured diplomatically.
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We&aposre still working diplomatically around the world to be able to isolate North Korea.
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"We continue to maintain the diplomatically led efforts in the United Nations," he told reporters.
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The Russian Embassy UK responded promptly and diplomatically by tweeting clip art of a duck.
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Fenty responded to that inquiry diplomatically (or totally sidestepped it, depending on who you ask).
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Silicon Valley may be in a state of what could be described diplomatically as nervous.
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Khaled diplomatically declines to comment, as he is busy eating a mashed banana, and screaming.
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It's questionable, to put it diplomatically, that Germany is somehow manipulating the euro's exchange rate.
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Very diplomatically, Gaga responded to Morgan's tweets saying she would be happy to educate him.
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This has been diplomatically read all along and so, the diplomatic people are in charge.
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" Fitin would later observe diplomatically that "it could happen that something did not please Stalin . . .
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The U.S. does back these countries diplomatically, and urges them to stand up to Beijing.
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So they're talking about their concerns as diplomatically as possible — but the message is clear.
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Vatican City is also, still, among the 20 states, all small, that recognize Taiwan diplomatically.
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I appreciate the effort, even if the audience here is — shall we put this diplomatically?
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Maybe start by diplomatically addressing the issue the next time he shows up to apologize.
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"We're doing everything we can to solve this diplomatically, everything we can," Mr. Mattis said.
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"The implications of not trying diplomatically to neutralize Bashar al-Assad are serious," he said.
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"We have, but Iran is more diplomatically isolated as a consequence of it," Hook said.
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Mr. Maduro finds himself increasingly isolated diplomatically as traditional regional allies have turned on him.
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All of these moves complicate Beijing's effort to diplomatically shut Taiwan out of the Pacific.
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Secondary sanctions can be diplomatically problematic because they can cause tensions with otherwise friendly countries.
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However, the administration continues to say it wants to solve the North Korea crisis diplomatically.
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"This is a diplomatically led effort at this point, supported by military options," he said.
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Diplomatically, the UAE regime is close to Saudi Arabia and unfriendly to Qatar and Iran.
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The more countries that are aware, the more heat China will feel both diplomatically and economically.
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Although diplomatically ill-advised, the row is likely to boost support for the government at home.
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He said that Italy and the US "are determined to work diplomatically" to resolve that situation.
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" The exhibit also shows how the women chose their dress styles and colors "diplomatically, Thompson adds.
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It&aposs not the first time Saudi Arabia has lashed out diplomatically over the Badawi case.
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Brazil even represented Cuba diplomatically in Washington after U.S. move to break off relations with Castro.
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"The President has also made clear to me that he wants this solved diplomatically," Tillerson said.
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Over the last two years, Germany has played a more active global role, diplomatically and militarily.
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Only 41 percent want to abide by the agreement and try to resolve the problem diplomatically.
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But he wants follow in Obama's footsteps by engaging diplomatically with other powers to curtail proliferation.
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"We'd love to solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult," he told Reuters in late April.
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But it is unclear how much leverage Israel has to press its anti-Iran agenda diplomatically.
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Washington does not recognize Taipei diplomatically but considers it a staunch ally in the Pacific Rim.
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A diplomatically worded final statement called for more study and an indefinite pause in restoration work.
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Diplomatically speaking, he owns the franchise; and with "On China," … he reflects on his remarkable run.
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To an outsider, the dispute can seem puzzling, but it has proved diplomatically explosive and intractable.
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"When you're dealing with issues diplomatically, sometimes you can't go at them directly," Mr. Pound said.
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A second is the diplomatically named International Linear Collider, which would probably be built in Japan.
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The Society's CEO, Gary M. Reedy, stepped up to the fact check plate -- diplomatically, but unequivocally.
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And remember, China doesn't play by the same rules as we do, economically, diplomatically, or militarily.
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Fortunately, China is likely to have a difficult time eliminating Taiwan's presence diplomatically in the Pacific.
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"The president has also made clear to me that he wants this solved diplomatically," Tillerson said.
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The question now is just how serious both countries are about solving the nuclear standoff diplomatically.
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How does one say &aposNo,&apos diplomatically and safely, to someone like Kadyrov in his own fiefdom?
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Without the U.S. and China agreeing on specific measures, the gap is too big to close diplomatically.
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Kurds agreed to participate "presumably because they trusted the US to restrain the Turks diplomatically," Bowman said.
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But Ireland's EU membership at least leaves it better placed, diplomatically and economically, to weather the storm.
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Iran's image has been tarnished, and the Saudis have assembled a Sunni coalition to isolate Iran diplomatically.
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I worked very hard as Secretary of State to do what I could diplomatically to avoid conflict.
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Owning two passports (national and global) would alleviate the unwelcome scrutiny faced when entering diplomatically hostile countries.
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The former British ambassador to Washington called his administration dysfunctional, unpredictable, faction-riven, diplomatically clumsy and inept.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has also moved to restrict Taiwan's international influence by diplomatically isolating the island.
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More broadly, both Cairo and Jerusalem fear Washington is disengaging from the Middle East militarily and diplomatically.
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And this is a morally understandable position; it may even be diplomatically understandable, up to a point.
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Time and again, Great Britain diplomatically frustrated American attempts to impose prohibition regimes and establish international protocols.
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All the countries that worked with the US and Iran are invested in the current deal, diplomatically.
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"There is no way to say this diplomatically," Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, said on Twitter.
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I try to jog her memory politely and answer diplomatically, but then she returns with more questions.
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Mr. Spicer defended the invitation, saying the Philippines were important to isolating North Korea diplomatically and economically.
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Their political representatives have had to choose their words diplomatically as they push their campaign against Netanyahu.
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Diplomatically, when leaders of the two countries talk to each other, they don't use particularly hostile rhetoric.
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He also promised India would do what it could to diplomatically isolate Pakistan from the international community.
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"The president has also made clear to me that he wants this solved diplomatically," Mr. Tillerson said.
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The Obama administration's goal was to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon diplomatically instead of by force.
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Those, he notes diplomatically, really aren't the people Clinton should have been trying to bring to the polls.
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But the very real threat of mass deportations will inevitably strain US-Mexico relations, both diplomatically and economically.
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Trump warned of an imminent "major, major conflict" with North Korea, despite wanting to handle the situation diplomatically.
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"It might be debatable what a higher score in each of these scales actually means," Elgammal concluded diplomatically.
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Mr Macron will also seek to convince Mr Trump to remain engaged in Syria, both militarily and diplomatically.
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As the Trump administration finally begins to engage Russia diplomatically, that is how Putin would write the script.
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Diplomatically, for example, only 21 countries (and the Holy See) recognise Taiwan rather than the government in Beijing.
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The first response may be the truest response, but could it be worded a little more, erm, diplomatically?
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Diplomatically isolated Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations, which recognizes "one China" centered on Beijing.
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"I'm a big believer in preaching to the converted because they'll sing a little louder," Barber says diplomatically.
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"Let me put it diplomatically," said his son, Chris Sullivan, 58 and an English professor in San Diego.
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"Both sides need to diplomatically resolve this together," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said during a press briefing.
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Diplomatically, the joint operations have made Tehran and Moscow central to any discussion about the regional security architecture.
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Rubio also said the conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) cannot be solved diplomatically.
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Still, the only real strategy on North Korea is to engage Kim diplomatically while keeping him under pressure.
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Ireland could become more important diplomatically for the United States because of its voice inside the European Union.
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Girardi would not commit to an answer, diplomatically saying it was too early to start thinking about 2017.
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" On China: "We need to engage with China diplomatically...but also recognize that they are our commercial rivals.
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A senior cabinet minister told me Netanyahu doesn't like the project economically but understands he needs it diplomatically.
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The Obama administration's goal was to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon diplomatically, instead of by force.
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"We serve all member states, some are funders, some are not," Dr. Kanem said, choosing her words diplomatically.
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"Both sides need to diplomatically resolve this together," the State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday.
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"Not on a regular basis, but there are some wonderful performances in that series," the prince said diplomatically.
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A regional coalition prevents putting American boots on the ground and is much cheaper, both financially and diplomatically.
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We can remain engaged with Kabul diplomatically and economically, but the military aspect of our mission must end.
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He also said he would "rebuild" the United Nations and the State Department to resolve international conflicts diplomatically.
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On foreign policy -- Throw out decades of US foreign policy to engage North Korea, but don't engage diplomatically.
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"To forge personal relations between heads of state is a diplomatically natural thing between states," the statement said.
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Mr. Biden is referring to Mr. Trump's efforts to engage diplomatically with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.
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The Chinese government says that policy, which keeps Taiwan diplomatically isolated, is a bedrock of relations with Washington.
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I raised this question and he responded diplomatically, with apologies to all who bet on him and lost.
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North Korea recognized Vietnam's communist regime diplomatically in 1950 — four years before Vietnam won its independence from France.
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But North Korea and Malaysia weren't especially diplomatically close even before the killing of Kim Jong Un's half-brother.
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" Similarly, he said, "There is no solution to North Korea without joining hands with China to achieve that diplomatically.
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Tanuwijaya somewhat diplomatically played down the rivalry and any rift, insisting that there is no impact on its business.
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But Qu, 35, is speaking out to encourage Iran and the United States to resolve her husband's case diplomatically.
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For months, top Trump officials have said the administration would prefer to settle its tensions with North Korea diplomatically.
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And I just don't see how — I don't see the opportunities to solve this diplomatically at this particular point.
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" But he added that "the American effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results.
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This isn't Turkey; this isn't a third-world country; and this kind of thing cannot go unresponded to diplomatically.
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Oman also called on all parties to exercise restraint and resolve differences diplomatically, Oman's foreign ministry said on Twitter.
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Meanwhile, diplomatically, Trump met the UK PM Theresa May, the Japan PM Shinzo Abe, Isreal's PM Benjamin Netanyahu, etc.
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The ideal, but diplomatically challenging, solution would be to reauthorize UNIFIL's mandate under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter.
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"They were sweet," she says diplomatically of the twins, who play the nephews to her character Leila's housemate, Gabe.
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To battle this, Nielsen said they will attack offenders diplomatically, financially and legally, as well as using other strategies.
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Response: Global leaders have urged both sides to de-escalate, calling on the U.S. to respond diplomatically to Iran.
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Diplomatically delicate phrases will smooth over the biggest current obstacle to an agreement, the position of Northern Ireland. Mrs.
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He has also stood up to his regional powerhouse, diplomatically pushing back on financially onerous Chinese projects in Malaysia.
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It also means remembering how much stronger the United States is than Russia, economically, militarily, diplomatically and even politically.
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He was eager to put his Communist foes on the defensive diplomatically, to depict them as aggressive and intransigent.
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Bridging the gapMore importantly, these intermediaries have enabled politicians from the two estranged countries to keep in touch diplomatically.
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But what really matters is the relationship that's developing between the two countries, politically and diplomatically, commercially and economically.
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Instead, the United States should agree to engage diplomatically now, while there is strong international opposition to North Korea.
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That move formed part of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign, which aims to isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically.
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EISEN: SPEAKING OF INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION, APPEARS, ROB, THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION MIGHT BE LESS LIKELY TO OPEN UP DIPLOMATICALLY TO CUBA.
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" If I ask whether she's friends with Siri, she'll diplomatically note that she's "made lots of new friends so far.
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But in a move that's puzzled some US policymakers, it has not cut off relations with the diplomatically isolated country.
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Sir Kim describes the Trump administration as "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept", and does not expect that to change.
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Sir Kim describes the Trump administration as "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept", and did not expect that to change.
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In the decade since, China has taken the lead both diplomatically and commercially in promoting infrastructure as a global priority.
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The Delaney Doctrine is based on global engagement, diplomatically and economically, while continuing to maintain a very strong US military.
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The response to Game of Thrones' final season has been ... mixed, and "mixed" is me trying to put it diplomatically.
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When Thomas Jefferson—a slaveholder and bigot—was elected in the US, he sought to isolate Louverture economically and diplomatically.
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During his decades at ExxonMobil, he said, he had "been very successful diplomatically" by staying out of the public eye.
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"I think, diplomatically, you could probably say that the president's strategy was [that] he wanted to engage Putin," Roberts said.
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And the more we retreat, both militarily and diplomatically, the more vacuums we're creating to be occupied by our opponents.
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Another strategy for diplomatically dispensing corrections is to begin by discussing your own mistakes before digging into someone else's errors.
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During that war, the British Empire (which by now was diplomatically aligned with France) adopted a broadly pro-Confederate posture.
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He has also stood up to his giant neighbor, China, diplomatically pushing back on financially onerous Chinese projects in Malaysia.
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Mr. Obama is a pathbreaking figure and established writer whose two terms traversed a stormy period economically, militarily and diplomatically.
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He also said the United States would like France, Britain and Germany to join its efforts to diplomatically isolate Tehran.
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As a start, though, Tehran will work through its political allies in Baghdad to diplomatically send American fighters back home.
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" Bieber says, in the diplomatically general terms of a Disney star, "I think that being human is challenging for everybody.
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Economically, it failed working Americans; diplomatically it failed America internationally, and politically, it has failed to solve America's pressing problems.
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Instead, she diplomatically suggested Democrats adopt a different "bold idea" — the less disruptive policy of creating an optional government plan.
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"The reception of a group of Japanese-American growers in Rancho Santa Fe was not particularly welcoming," Tom said diplomatically.
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A Holy See statement did not mention Taiwan, which the Vatican recognizes diplomatically and which China sees as a renegade province.
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Diplomatically, Facebook said it didn't expect the change to impact its standing with regulators but it's open to answering their questions.
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On learning that it had been put away, he diplomatically made clear that this was not an acceptable state of affairs.
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Outside of economic measures, one option for applying pressure diplomatically would be to further isolate North Korea from the world stage.
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Doris Matsui (D-CA) that the EPA is "working very diligently and diplomatically" with CARB; in the afternoon, he told Rep.
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"Your terrible boss may try to drag you in, but you're better off diplomatically staying out of the fray," says Taylor.
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"He added: "Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America?
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Read more: 'Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America?
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"We've loved this word for a long time, but have been waiting for the chance to use it," Xavier says, diplomatically.
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Britain's ambassador in Malaysia, Vicki Treadell, joined the fray, perhaps not surprisingly coming out diplomatically on the side of her hosts.
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Russia immediately said it would continue to abide by the deal, and moved diplomatically to ease tensions between Iran and Israel.
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Mr. Trump has been keen to engage diplomatically with Mr. Kim and persuade him to get rid of his nuclear weapons.
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North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, extended the olive branch by offering to enter peace talks and diplomatically de-escalated tensions.
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Mr. Thrall suggests that Israel takes steps toward peace only when pressed, by the United States diplomatically or by Palestinian violence.
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Chaly's op-ed may have been diplomatically awkward, but at least it made a fair critique of Trump's remarks about Ukraine.
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A recent study found that even a small increase in what's diplomatically called vaccine hesitancy would have large public-health consequences.
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Beijing also says Taiwan does not have the right to state-to-state relations and is keen to isolate it diplomatically.
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He believed America's sharp criticism of corruption was hurting it diplomatically, pushing countries like Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria closer to Russia.
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US President Donald Trump responded to Kim's missile tests by stepping up a campaign to diplomatically and economically isolate North Korea.
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Diplomatically, China has used its economic strength to bully smaller nations into recognizing Beijing rather than Taipei as China's legitimate government.
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It is not just because of U.S. efforts that the two sides have been able to accomplish so much diplomatically, though.
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I do think the US should be diplomatically more engaged in trying to shape whatever outcome is negotiated among the parties.
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"There are many downsides, both diplomatically and in terms of the Middle East peace process, and no upside," Mr. Kurtzer said.
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Rather, he often weighs in diplomatically before landing in the country, or waits until he crosses the border to the next.
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The B.D.S. movement thus married a set of tactics — aimed at isolating Israel culturally, diplomatically and economically — with a political program.
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That could mean North Korea allows inspectors to view its nuclear sites in exchange for the US diplomatically recognizing the Kim regime.
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"It is right now a diplomatically-led, economic-sanction buttressed effort to try to turn North Korea off this path," Mattis said.
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Kim was diplomatically isolated for years before making his first foreign trip as leader in March to meet with Xi in Beijing.
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"Diplomatically, it was sensitive to make US platforms come to Biarritz and sign something while the American president wasn't there," he said.
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Also, diplomats speculate — perhaps optimistically — that being involved in bringing peace to Syria offers Russia an enormous opportunity to rehabilitate itself diplomatically.
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"Apple is doing a great job and we're excited to get more involved," Lauer said diplomatically when I asked him about it.
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When asked whether the South Korean government was considering retaliatory measures, the source said South Korea preferred to resolve the dispute diplomatically.
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"The secretary is somebody who expresses his communications to others — whether it's diplomatically or to troops — he does it privately," Davis responded.
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Back in 2000, when the Freedom Party entered Austria's federal government, the EU imposed temporary sanctions and threatened to diplomatically boycott Austria.
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But, as with Korea, he still lacks a coherent strategy on the war-ravaged nation that takes him diplomatically beyond Obama's position.
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It is uncertainty about how far he is willing to go, militarily and diplomatically, that has moved the needle on North Korea.
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Today, Russia is in the business of defending both diplomatically and militarily the chemical-weapons-wielding tyrant it was supposed to disarm.
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We need to defuse conflicts diplomatically rather than threaten military action, as some in the administration have done in regard to China.
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"If he had to do it over again, I can assure you it would have been handled much more diplomatically," Baker said.
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Tillerson has said it's better diplomatically to stay in the pact and retain a seat at the table in international climate policy.
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"The museum is monitoring the crowds so that it always remains comfortable," Ms. Baumann said diplomatically, and some rules have been implemented.
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While Diaz-Balart diplomatically called Brooks "sincere," the Florida Republican said that eliminating Amtrak's federal subsidies would actually result in higher costs.
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But China has been trying to get more diplomatically involved, especially in Syria, recently hosting both its foreign minister and opposition officials.
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"In many cases, people simply forgot they had these items," the TSA diplomatically summarizes on its blog without going into detailed explanations.
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These ideas were never implemented literally — North Korea's economy depended heavily on aid from the Soviets, in particular — but were useful diplomatically.
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The NFU policy has been diplomatically used particularly in the backdrop of civil nuclear cooperation agreements with U.S., Japan, Canada and Australia.
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He advocated confronting Iran, a position that put him at odds with President Barack Obama, who was trying to engage Iran diplomatically.
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It is unclear what Berman's "options" might be; the prospect of extraditing a member of the British royal family seems diplomatically improbable.
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If the US starts ignoring treaties or stops leading the way on climate issues, America could quite quickly find itself diplomatically ostracized.
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He advocated confronting Iran, a position that put him at odds with Mr. Obama, who was then trying to engage Iran diplomatically.
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In contrast, most other European allies and the United States readily lined up behind Britain and were quick to isolate Russia diplomatically.
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" Mattis said the U.S. effort to counter the nuclear missile ambitions of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is being "diplomatically led.
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"I adore Mandy, but I saw everybody else start going in and asking him the questions …" and her voice trailed off, diplomatically.
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She succeeds Kim Darroch, who resigned after his candid assessment of the Trump administration as diplomatically "clumsy and inept" caused an uproar.
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It is imperative that the U.S. and Iran act diplomatically to settle differences now before there is further escalation and more bloodshed.
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It was, instead, another in a series of bumbling missteps by China that have left it foundering diplomatically in the Czech Republic.
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Clinton late Tuesday tweaked her Republican opponent, criticizing his positions on waterboarding and suggesting he'd be a nightmare for the U.S. diplomatically.
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The administration ended up highlighting the growing rifts between the US and its closest allies, and ultimately walked away looking diplomatically inept.
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Estrangement -- even from the distant frosty relations Obama had with Putin -- has grown in part because Trump didn't engage diplomatically on Syria.
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The US ambassador to Mexico is responsible for diplomatically conveying Trump's harsh messages and policies about immigration in general, and Mexican immigrants specifically.
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She also has what are essentially the only weapons of mass destruction, so she might not even need to act diplomatically at all.
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"We will intervene at the right level of seniority and intensity - scientifically, strategically and diplomatically - to have the best possible impact," said Goodale.
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What makes Mathew's specific brand of advocacy unique is that he openly engages and works diplomatically with his opposition to find a solution.
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" Flashback... Highlights from the interview: More on North Korea: "[I]t is our firm conviction that resolving this diplomatically is the correct answer.
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U.S. officials have reluctantly concluded that simply applying more sanctions or further isolating Venezuela diplomatically is not likely to hasten a political transition.
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Being diplomatically circumspect, the United States did not identify nations implicated in transferring oil from their ships to North Korean vessels at sea.
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Mr. Obama has framed his decision to work diplomatically with Russia to remove most Syrian chemical weapons as an exercise in responsible restraint.
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Bilateral trade agreements in those years were very often aspirational, hopeful efforts to build bridges economically, diplomatically and technically to benefit both sides.
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But like any good visiting ambassador, she insisted diplomatically that her choice didn't reflect a vote for them over any of the competition.
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I am tired of diplomatically trying to persuade him that he's making poor decisions, or watching other managers try to do the same.
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Mercury enters Libra on September 29, inspiring people to speak diplomatically, which will be welcome after the shakeups during the Jupiter/Uranus opposition.
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Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, recently traveled in the United States, drawing protests from Beijing, which has worked hard to isolate Taipei diplomatically.
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Moscow did not condemn Israel's strikes, as it had in the past, instead calling on Israel and Iran to resolve their differences diplomatically.
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Zhang Qinghui, an industrial economist who serves as a vice-president of the China Fashion Association, phrased Guo's challenge to the West diplomatically.
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The agreement also requires that Russia withdraw its unacknowledged military force in Ukraine, referred to diplomatically as the "foreign" force in the region.
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Earlier in January, he said the US must remain both diplomatically and militarily engaged in Syria to protect its own national security interests.
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President XI told me he appreciates that the U.S. is working to solve the problem diplomatically rather than going with the ominous alternative.
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Even before Seoul's announcement, Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign — isolating North Korea economically and diplomatically until it dismantles its nuclear program — has started to crumble.
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In each case the country that was left on its own has always seemed to pay a price, by being stretched militarily and diplomatically.
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Individual quotes have ranged from diplomatically wondering aloud if a statement could be made by actually visiting, to straight up thanks but no thankses.
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Legally, the Permanent Court of Arbitration's decision is binding and there may be implications diplomatically for China if they refuse to abide by it.
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Although Kim Yo Jong ranks diplomatically lower than Kim Yong Nam, as Kim Jong Un's sister she is considered more important in North Korea.
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Kim Kye Gwan&aposs statement is the latest whiplash development in efforts to diplomatically address what might be the world&aposs most dangerous standoff.
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I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end.
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As China steps up efforts to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, the list of multinationals that have bent to Beijing&aposs will is long — and growing.
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New Delhi has vowed to respond to the Kashmir attack, and has launched a campaign to isolate Pakistan diplomatically, including through the United Nations.
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However, his overarching message on defeating ISIS includes something more diplomatically challenging: It must be lead by a coalition of countries in the region.
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" And later in remarks to U.S. and South Korean soldiers in Seoul: "We're doing everything we can to solve this diplomatically, everything we can.
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We must strive to resolve our differences diplomatically, yet success is unlikely without the leverage provided by credible American alliances and unquestioned military power.
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British voters delivered a well-aimed kick at the global elites who prefer a Britain that is deeply intertwined, economically and diplomatically, with Europe.
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"I have faith in what Lincoln referred to as 'the better angels of American nature,'" Mr. Trudeau said diplomatically in an interview with CBC.
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But after a split second's hesitation her media training kicked in — and she found her way of diplomatically giving Google the asked for kicking.
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"If he had to do it over again, I can assure you it would have been handled much more diplomatically," Baker said in November.
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BEIJING — An explosion rocked the street outside the United States Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, rattling a diplomatically sensitive area in the Chinese capital.
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He asked those who had contact with Eritrea — one of the most diplomatically isolated countries in the world — to reach out on his behalf.
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Options for those responses include strikes, if necessary, but also sanctioning the regime or diplomatically ostracizing countries that support it, especially Russia and Iran.
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It would prefer to solve the crisis diplomatically, according to an August 13 op-ed piece by Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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"I would assume the Saudis have an inventory system that traces that information," said the official, who spoke anonymously to discuss diplomatically sensitive relations.
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Contrary to what Mr. Trump and Mr. Zelensky said in their phone call, the European Union has been supportive of Ukraine, financially and diplomatically.
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In fact, Communist China has prospered politically, diplomatically and strategically from the decades-long negotiating stalemate over North Korea's burgeoning nuclear and missile programs.
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We will be much more successful -- and peaceful -- if we engage in respectful discourse, acknowledge efforts made and firmly, but diplomatically, push for more.
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That would allow Kim to rely on the economic and energy trade with the two nations, which seem willing to diplomatically back North Korea.
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Canada is too closely entwined with its immense neighbor — economically, militarily, diplomatically and in countless other ways — to risk the development of serious friction.
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Iran may also choose to stay in an effort to diplomatically isolate the U.S., said Ryan Turner, senior risk analyst at Protection Group International.
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While the decision has not unleashed the violence in the Arab capitals that some had feared, it has left the United States diplomatically isolated.
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On the plane out of Baghdad, a frustrated Wilson said, "What can I say, as a diplomat you try to resolve those problems diplomatically".
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In September 2015, Trump said he supported President Obama's decision to diplomatically re-engage with Cuba after more than 50 years of Cold War tensions.
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While China supported this effort, North Korea's traditional ally seemed at risk of being sidelined, as Pyongyang looked south for support both economic and diplomatically.
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Western countries have tacitly backed the Arab states diplomatically, and the United States, Britain and France sell them billions of dollars a year in arms.
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"We've been hearing everything in the news and we obviously wish them the very best" Mignano said diplomatically as he kicks SoundCloud while it's down.
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Interestingly enough, if you think about it, right, the talk of Made in China 2025 may have been diplomatically toned down, in terms of rhetoric.
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"The statement by the ambassador was totally uncalled for, it is considered diplomatically rude on his part," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in response.
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Compared to Barack Obama, Trump poses more of a risk to the area and China should "prepare diplomatically and militarily," Li is quoted as saying.
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Born in Western Australia of Korean parents, Lee diplomatically describes her personality as "half and half" when asked whether she feels more Korean or Australian.
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While the slave master was rude and condescending to Daenerys, Missandei "diplomatically" — as Emmanuel described it — translated his words so as to not offend Khaleesi.
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"We&aposre doing everything we can to solve this diplomatically -- everything we can," Mattis told the troops after stepping out from a Black Hawk helicopter.
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But it was unclear if Park can continue to represent the country diplomatically when other countries might be ambivalent about scheduling summit meetings with her.
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Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar on Monday on a diplomatically delicate visit for the leader of the Roman Catholic church to the majority-Buddhist country.
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Paraguay remains the only country in South America to diplomatically recognize Taiwan — and not the People's Republic of China — as the legitimate government of China.
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Governor Reynolds says diplomatically that Mr Trump's and Mr Xi's 100-day plan for trade talks, agreed in April in Florida, was a good start.
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A senior Japanese diplomat said it appeared the U.S. position was to put maximum pressure on North Korea to reach a solution peacefully and diplomatically.
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This is especially the case with the way he's diplomatically framed the handling of North Korea as something where China can play a positive role:
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The ending of sanctions against the country, which have isolated it economically and diplomatically, came after a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and global powers.
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Khashoggi's killing, tied to bin Salman's inner circle, put Saudi Arabia on the defensive diplomatically, giving the US and UK an opening to press Riyadh.
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Haley and Graham's alarmism is diplomatically counterproductive, being both a threat inflation with North Korea and an unnecessary offense to one of America's key allies.
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Is that the fundamental reason that Egypt is part of this coalition of Gulf states, which has diplomatically cut off Qatar and is isolating it?
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Germany's decision to open its doors last year to more than one million asylum seekers has left it somewhat diplomatically isolated, even among its allies.
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"Now is the time to diplomatically and economically isolate this regime, until it fully and irreversibly commits to peaceful denuclearization," he says in his letter.
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In the past he's said diplomatically that it's "not that good," but over the phone from his new house in Bristol, he expands a bit.
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Mr. Obama, she wrote, was trying to "box Trump in diplomatically with Russia," which could limit his options with other countries, including Iran and Syria.
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Critics said Mr. Trump risked isolating the United States diplomatically and giving up the deal's hard-won gains, including intrusive inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities.
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You saw over the weekend some reporting the President said once again he is more than willing to meet with Iran's leaders, resolve this diplomatically.
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I was a budding producer on a national news program, and I had just diplomatically expressed my strong desire to be promoted in the future.
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" Former Cabinet secretary Julián Castro put it more diplomatically in November: "It's time that our presidential nominating process reflects our nation's and our party's diversity.
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Turkey will be politically and diplomatically isolated in the negotiations for a political settlement in Syria, where Russia and Iran will play a major role.
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Any additional steps Tehran takes to avenge the death of the Quds Force commander will expose Iran to great risks militarily, economically, diplomatically and internally.
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While Trump and his aides said they want to resolve the dispute diplomatically, they have also suggested a military option could be on the table.
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Mainland China now regards Taiwan as a renegade province that can be taken back by force if necessary and has worked to diplomatically isolate Taiwan.
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Given Russia's relatively weak economic ties and Iran's likely new diplomatic optionality, Russia may take a backseat to more economically vibrant and diplomatically powerful partners.
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Instead, it was a strategic political move by Abiy that has benefited both leaders financially and diplomatically, whilst uniting them against their common political enemy.
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While his methods may be bumbling, self-serving and diplomatically incompetent, Trump is right to advance the process of serious U.S. military reductions from Afghanistan.
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And it is our firm conviction that resolving this diplomatically is the correct answer, but that this administration is prepared to do what it takes.
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"Seeing Caterpillar and Harley-Davidson trade higher tells me that traders think this will end diplomatically," said Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial.
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Trump echoed this, saying he would love to "solve things diplomatically," despite also appearing to suggest an all-out war could be in the cards.
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Its bounty has also empowered the United States diplomatically, allowing it to impose sanctions on Iran and Venezuela without worrying much about increasing gasoline prices.
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Mr. Buttigieg, who earlier released a plan for tackling climate change, called for engaging other countries diplomatically to confront the perils of a warming planet.
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It also comes amid several recent successes by China in luring away some of the few nations that diplomatically recognize the democratically self-ruled island.
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But the 23-year-old Australian former cricketer was not going to enter into any controversy, diplomatically saying she was happy to play on any court.
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Najib had branded Ambassador Kang "diplomatically rude" and, angered by the lack of an apology, the Malaysian government on Saturday gave him 48 hours to leave.
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He assured the assembled marines and their hosts, burly Australian officers in berets and slouch hats, that isolating North Korea diplomatically and economically remains the priority.
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If we're going to bring peace to this world, we need a strong State Department, we need to move forward diplomatically, not just do photo opportunities.
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That suggests, to put it diplomatically, that Tillerson doesn't have remotely the same power as high-profile predecessors such as Rice, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry.
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By October 28, after several tense written exchanges and a secret meeting between Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the Soviet ambassador, the conflict was solved diplomatically.
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The Democratic nominee made the case that the U.S. must continue to be a global leader militarily and diplomatically by spreading U.S. ideas around the world.
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All the Earth's creatures are beautiful, I will say diplomatically, and I'm glad these little miracles are alive even though they'll soon be bigger and scarier.
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His chief spokesman said Friday that the US and its allies must continue the campaign to isolate North Korea diplomatically and pressure it using economic sanctions.
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Kerry, who will visit China next, said an ADIZ would be "a provocative and destabilizing act", which would question Beijing's commitment to diplomatically manage the dispute.
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Channels, back channels and academic retreats For a country that is largely isolated diplomatically, North Korea does have several means to communicate with even its adversaries.
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They say that the United States loses out diplomatically by leaving the treaty and that Trump can always reduce Obama's commitment while staying in the deal.
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Mitt Romney blasting Trump and the US as being "so weak and diplomatically inept" to capitulate to Turkey and calling for public hearings on the matter.
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American adversaries like North Korea, meanwhile, appear determined to take their chances diplomatically, seeing Trump as a weakened target, more prone to making concessions than ever.
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"The only question to my mind and the question that should be asked by Americans is what the U.S. gets out of it diplomatically," Zilber said.
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"At the same time, the poll showed about 25% of Americans said "the US should condemn the attack, and consider sanctioning or diplomatically criticizing those responsible.
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He said the U.S. also does not appear to be moving diplomatically to disrupt Iranian oil sales, as the Obama administration had done with importing countries.
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The small Pacific nation signed up for Xi's hallmark Belt and Road infrastructure initiative in November alongside the seven other Pacific nations that recognize China diplomatically.
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Yet he believes with no less vigor that Britain can have "the best of both worlds," and would suffer economically, diplomatically and strategically outside the union.
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"The Americans are trying to deal with the situation peacefully, diplomatically, without taking military action, even though they have the potential to do so," he said.
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In fairness, the Ethereum community has long been home to the starry-eyed idealists, utopians and … let's diplomatically call them "original thinkers" … of the blockchain world.
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More likely, Beijing would adopt a policy of belligerent neutrality, arming and fueling the North Korean war machine, blasting us diplomatically and working for American defeat.
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The Vatican has stressed the deal is strictly about the appointment of bishops and has nothing to do with Taiwan, which the Vatican still recognizes diplomatically.
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These channels are one of the greatest achievements of the nuclear talks and key to the deal's success, allowing two adversaries to finally settle disputes diplomatically.
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"I never saw the Olympics as a venue to accomplish anything diplomatically," said Laura Rosenberger, a senior fellow and director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
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Congress must urgently reassert its constitutional powers before Trump's erratic behavior ruins the US and world economy and further endangers the planet both environmentally and diplomatically.
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Li Shuo, of Greenpeace China, said the projected rise in emissions would not affect China's overall trajectory toward slowing emissions at home and stepping up diplomatically.
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North Korea is not interested in diplomatically giving up its nuclear program or reunifying unless the conditions are favorable to Kim Jong-un and his regime.
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Under the "Sunshine Policy" -- for which Kim won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 -- Seoul actively engaged Pyongyang economically and diplomatically, and provided considerable humanitarian aid.
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Travelers may bring the mumps virus with them, so US officials have been working "diplomatically" to get other countries to be thorough with vaccinations, Schaffner said.
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The F-35 program is also sensitive diplomatically, and as costs per plane increase, the overruns affect the ability of other countries to buy the jets.
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Then he called an independent trucker to see if he could move bees that night, diplomatically sidestepping the man's request that he also hire a friend.
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There were towns near Laconia — diplomatically, Adams declined to name them — that denied they had any drug crisis, even as the numbers they had showed otherwise.
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Some of those changes may seem elementary, for a retailer in 2019, but Ms. Penick pointed out, diplomatically, the internet isn't that old compared to Bergdorf's.
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Earlier this week Malaysia recalled its ambassador from Pyongyang, and Prime Minister Najib Razak rebuked the North Korea ambassador in Kuala Lumpur for making "diplomatically rude" comments.
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We also continue to engage diplomatically at the highest levels to urge other nations to continue developing and expanding their anti-trafficking laws and victim services frameworks.
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The report of more Chinese cyberattacks comes at a diplomatically sensitive time when the US is weighing large security concerns against tech companies like Huawei and ZTE.
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Iran and Japan have a long history of cooperation, even during that war against the U.S.'s wishes — meaning it has something of a clean slate diplomatically.
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President Donald Trump has expressed frustration that his initial strategy — enlisting China's help and influence to squeeze the North economically and diplomatically — has not yielded major results.
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"I could single-in and talk about my experience, but I think it's more important to talk about the entire movement as a whole," she said diplomatically.
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In the same AV Club interview, Bamford speaks diplomatically but disconcertingly about how the 17-hour production days on her Netflix series were almost unmanageable for her.
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Check out Alison Green's tips for getting credit in "Ask A Manager," diplomatically address the scene-stealer head on, or get your forward/CC email finger ready.
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The reliance on China to pressure North Korea diplomatically continues but if Pyongyang conducts another underground test, the US may decide that the strategy is not working.
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Harris and Brooks offered strong praised US' missile defense systems Tuesday, both made it clear that the current situation on the Korean Peninsula must be resolved diplomatically.
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By praising Duterte for "fighting very hard to rid [his] country of drugs," Trump is reversing the Obama administration's treatment of Duterte as diplomatically beyond the pale.
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Pakistan was isolated diplomatically and faced "a world in denial" over the situation in Kashmir, Dawn, the country's most influential English-language newspaper, said in an editorial.
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Differences with allies are inevitable, but instead of resolving them diplomatically, quietly, Trump seems to derive pleasure from rubbing salt in every wound, from maximizing the pain.
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We have to be realistic in that there is nothing we can do diplomatically through coercion or co-opting that will result in North Korea de-nuclearizing.
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Tocci said that it was necessary to take those steps "in order to signal, diplomatically, to the Iranians that Europeans are serious" about the Iran nuclear agreement.
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If new occupants of the Oval Office felt free to cancel existing agreements and start over, US capacity to solve problems diplomatically would grind to a halt.
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To put it diplomatically, they would have a very steep learning curve, coming up against the harsh realities of the real world Italian economy, EU constraints, etc.
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And Canada has been forced to respond diplomatically to a Trump administration that has made highly regressive proposals in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations.
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I asked him about the relevance to the ongoing engagement with North Korea diplomatically and using all instruments of national power when needed as the president stated.
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"Sanctioning such entities ex post facto may cause some problems diplomatically, but it will help put a healthy respect for the U.N. resolution in play," he said.
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Diplomatically and culturally, the place is indeed isolated, and its state ideology of juche, or self-reliance, reinforces the feeling that North Korea is going it alone.
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Nor can Iran hope to match the United States diplomatically, as it has no seat on the United Nations Security Council and no network of global allies.
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So in the midst of a massive Western campaign to isolate Russia and punish it diplomatically, Trump was chatting with Putin about a potential trip to Washington.
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At a time when China endeavors to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, baseball remains one of the island's potent instruments of soft power and a path to international recognition.
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Wozniak did take a moment to point out how terrible President Donald Trump is as a human being, even if he was trying to do so diplomatically.
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"We have some channels that are open where we're starting to talk," Mr. Tillerson said, citing efforts to engage diplomatically with Russia over its role in Syria.
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"In confronting the reckless North Korean regime, it's critical that we're guided by a strong sense of resolve, both privately and publicly, both diplomatically and militarily," Adm.
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The policy effectively dictates that countries either recognize diplomatically the People's Republic of China, on the mainland, or the Republic of China, on Taiwan, but not both.
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Since a May 2140 coup, Thailand and China have drawn closer diplomatically and militarily as the ruling generals seek to counterbalance the country's cooling ties with Washington.
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Per several reports, Iran deal advocates inside the State Department have launched multiple, open-ended initiatives around the deal, allowing them to argue decertification is diplomatically premature.
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" On Thursday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said the military is ready to counter the threat from North Korea, but also said the effort is being "diplomatically led.
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Bolden's group pursued national and local legislation, and started job placement and training programs that taught workers how to ask, diplomatically, for vacation time or higher wages.
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, diplomatically told Deadline that she too wishes the field of nominees were more diverse.
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"President Xi told me he appreciates that the U.S. is working to solve the problem diplomatically rather than going with the ominous alternative," Trump said in March 2018.
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"But we are in a moment where many of the big institutional investors driving this market don't seem to be that bright, to put it diplomatically," Cramer said.
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The self-ruled island has previously seen citizens accused of crimes in countries that do not recognize Taiwan diplomatically being handed to Chinese custody, despite objections of Taipei.
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But maintaining second-strike capability -- the ability to hit an adversary back after already being attack -- with a submarine fleet is costly, both financially and diplomatically, Masood said.
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When Saudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador over a critical tweet in August, the State Department stressed that both countries were partners and should resolve the situation diplomatically.
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Oman has urged Iran to release the Stena Impero, calling on all parties to exercise restraint and resolve differences diplomatically, state broadcaster Oman TV News reported on Sunday.
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"The one-China policy is the cornerstone for any country, including the United States, to engage with China diplomatically, and is simply non-negotiable: no exceptions," Xinhua said.
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This time Mr Modi's government moved to isolate Pakistan diplomatically, rebuffed behind-the-scenes efforts to calm tensions and sent unprovoked blasts of fire across the Kashmir border.
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It&aposs obvious that North Korea needs to be dealt with, and now he&aposs doing that through the maximum campaign of pressure, diplomatically, militarily, even through twitter.
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The Russian aircraft, which was on patrol with Chinese jets, then withdrew, and Moscow and Seoul have been arguing diplomatically since then over where fault might really lie.
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As the rise of Adolf Hitler forced Roosevelt to become a foreign-policy President, Hoover began to disapprove of him diplomatically just as much as he did economically.
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Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have been isolating Doha, economically and diplomatically, since mid-2017 for a litany of reasons, many of which people have forgotten.
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As Mr. Farley dropped one arm and uncomfortably raised his gaze to the crowd, Mr. Babayan diplomatically stepped forward to grasp the microphone from Mr. Farley's clenched fist.
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As Kazakhstan matures diplomatically and enters the UNSC arena, it is in the US interests to further expand its cooperation with this emerging player on the global arena.
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That would a scary outcome, as it would waste an opportunity to solve the nuclear standoff diplomatically — and may compel Trump and Kim to threaten war once again.
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This year's proposal to spend at least as much on preparing for nuclear war as we do on diplomatically influencing the world puts us at a strategic crossroads.
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It advises that the — along with its ongoing efforts to diplomatically isolate Assad and economically sanction him — the U.S. nonetheless plan for a long-term approach to accountability.
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When he let loose about how officers have a hard job and sometimes "unfortunate" things happen, it took all of my hard-earned Southern charm to answer diplomatically.
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More likely, the Trump administration is of multiple minds on many subjects and is so poorly staffed at the consular level that the United States is diplomatically rudderless.
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Even as the government boosts its presence along the North Korean border, China has reiterated its hopes that the North Korean issue can be settled diplomatically or politically.
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Washington (CNN)The United States must remain both diplomatically and militarily engaged in Syria to protect its own national security interests, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday.
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At a time of rising tension in the oil-producing Gulf region, Britain is diplomatically entwined in overlapping conflicts and disagreements involving Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran and others.
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The United States may be considered the most powerful member -- financially and diplomatically -- at the United Nations, but despite its status, security would not step into the fray.
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The Obama administration's goal was to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon diplomatically, instead of by force, and effectively bribed Iran with financial incentives to do so.
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The "Scarborough Shoal push", if successful, would give hope that the disputes within the South China Sea may be diplomatically resolved, he added, speaking at the same forum.
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Mr. Anderson characterizes it more diplomatically as "steady and reliable," but the gist is the same: People think it's moving slower and breaking fewer things than its peers.
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Mr. Anderson characterizes it more diplomatically as "steady and reliable," but the gist is the same: People think it's moving slower and breaking fewer things than its peers.
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For months, top Trump officials have said the administration would prefer to settle its tensions with North Korea diplomatically — but Trump himself seemed against the idea until now.
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On Sunday, President Donald Trump responded diplomatically to the Women's March demonstrations that took place across the country, praising the peaceful protest even as some of his supporters didn't.
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It was Europe's second attempt to isolate Russia diplomatically this month, after France and Spain led a push for a U.N.-backed ceasefire in New York, which Russia vetoed.
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As a result, his country's credibility as an ally is "the first target" for any power "trying to undermine the United States politically, diplomatically and from a security perspective".
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The plan, said Mike Pence, Mr Trump's vice-president, who was at the meeting in Bogotá, is "to continue to isolate Maduro economically and diplomatically until democracy is restored".
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Responding to questions about Trump's earlier tweet that insisted "talking is not the answer" with North Korea, Mattis stated that the U.S. was, in fact, willing to engage diplomatically.
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Asked at a news conference if he saw a contradiction in aid money donated by a country "to repair what it is destroying," Mr. Guterres sought to answer diplomatically.
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He said Trump would need this congressional authority — an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) — to abide by the Constitution but it also makes sense politically and diplomatically.
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The former British colony of more than 300 Pacific islands, with a population of about 910,000, was suspended from the British Commonwealth and isolated diplomatically after the bloodless coup.
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"Diplomatically, the speech was inept at best and deliberately insulting at worst," said Jeff Rathke, deputy director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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"It is right now a diplomatically led economic sanction buttressed effort to try and turn North Korea off this path," Mattis said during his opening remarks at the AUSA.
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Asked if he believed that Britain's decision showed that the old guard was crumbling quicker than he expected, Mr. Jin diplomatically replied that he had detected no such signs.
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White House officials suggested that Mr. Obama would express his hope that British voters would decide to stay in the European Union, but that he would do so diplomatically.
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" He added that he has not yet spoken to his Russian counterpart, but the United States will "work diplomatically and militarily in the coming hours to re-establish deconfliction.
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Why it matters: Things are heating up quickly — all as Iran decides how to proceed internationally and diplomatically following President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
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" As far as his own strained relationship with Trump, Cook added diplomatically, "I have spoken with him several times on several issues, and I have found him to listen.
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In some ways it is reminiscent of Crusader Kings II's tapestry of medieval figures, each trying to diplomatically outmaneuver the other, but here the focus is so much narrower.
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Many Democrats say they understand the president's need to think diplomatically and geopolitically about the nation's position when it comes to legislation opening up foreign nations to such lawsuits.
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You have blamed China for stymieing progress on denuclearization before, and that has not stopped the Chinese from defending North Korea diplomatically and urging sanctions relief for Kim's regime.
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Syrian officials clearly saw the opening as the start of a wider normalization with other Arab states after seven years of civil war that left the country diplomatically isolated.
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"There are so many different things that could go wrong [on the world stage] if they are handled wrong diplomatically — or at least handled normally," explains Vox's Zack Beauchamp.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping "told me he appreciates that the U.S. is working to solve the problem diplomatically rather than going with the ominous alternative," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Officially, Pakistan has always maintained that it supports the population in Kashmir morally and diplomatically and denies any role in the armed, anti-India insurgency in the disputed region.
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The Obama administration's goal was to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon diplomatically, instead of by force, and it effectively persuaded Iran with financial incentives to do so.
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Some American officials express deep shame over the abandonment of the Kurds and say that United States policy inadvertently left them diplomatically and militarily vulnerable to the Turkish attack.
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Since taking office in May, Mr. Moon has said South Korea would take "a driver's seat" in trying to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis diplomatically, not through force.
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"That's kind of rude," the twice major champion said in response to the question, before answering it directly when he could have diplomatically brushed it off as a hypothetical.
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This negatively affected both countries, as all trade stopped, while Ethiopia lost access to the coast and used its powerful position on the international scene to diplomatically isolate Eritrea.
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Asked about Russia's involvement in Afghanistan, Mattis said the United States would engage diplomatically with Russia where it can but stressed the administration must confront violations of international law.
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He will constantly have to balance the need to behave diplomatically with the danger of seeming to endorse the regime and being used as a propaganda tool by it.
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" While discussing ongoing tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Carter said he thinks "we can resolve the issue diplomatically and that is what the president is inclined to do.
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France is closely diplomatically aligned with Saudi Arabia, which welcomed Paris's tough stance in nuclear negotiations with Iran and is broadly aligned with it on other Middle East conflicts.
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"Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries," Zinke said of the Liberty Project.
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"So my reaction is, as I said earlier on, it is of great regret," he continued, making sure still to give credit to Trump for engaging diplomatically with Kim.
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But check back a couple months from now, when the White House turns its attention again to what figures to be a very expensive, controversial and diplomatically fraught construction project.
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The U.S. and its allies have also been waging bombing efforts against the militants, while trying to diplomatically edge out of power Syrian leader Bashar Assad, an ally of Moscow.
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Although the university writeup notes that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo had the best password practices and Amazon, Reddit and Wikipedia had the worst, it diplomatically declined to go into specifics.
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Ko said Moon talked to Trump in an effort to diplomatically solve the issue as Japanese media, at the time, constantly reported the possibility of economic retaliation against South Korea.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that in order to diplomatically resolve the crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, all sides must be ready to make concessions.
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"We continue to engage diplomatically with Saudi Arabia, I think it's important to have positive relationships with countries around the world," Trudeau told reporters after Cabinet meetings in British Columbia.
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Speaking in Singapore during a question and answer session earlier on Saturday, US Defense Secretary James Mattis also addressed the forthcoming Kim-Trump summit, describing it as "diplomatically-led" initiative.
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In 2013, Cole released his album Born Sinner on the same day West released Yeezus — and after Born Sinner edged Yeezus in first-week sales, Cole diplomatically addressed the victory.
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In litigation over that rule in 2015, the Justice Department told the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that stopping the regulation would hurt the U.S. diplomatically.
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Although efforts continue to resolve the conflict diplomatically, these efforts are undermined by the fact that arms transfers continue to supply all sides of the conflict with powerful advanced weapons.
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"As long as the regime in Pyongyang remains economically and diplomatically isolated from the world, I believe that they will be willing to come back to the table," he said.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one cable.
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"It is a diplomatically very coarse comment that can be seen as an infringement upon the sovereignty of another country," the news agency Yonhap said in an editorial on Thursday.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one cable.
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The visit was all the more diplomatically delicate because the grave is in East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after the 1967 war in a move that was not internationally recognized.
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"President XI told me he appreciates that the U.S. is working to solve the problem diplomatically rather than going with the ominous alternative," the president wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
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Mr. Burzynski diplomatically avoids weighing in on the government's decision but he does think the destruction of the jets has played a major role in keeping the Arrow's legend alive.
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"The most diplomatic thing you could possibly say was, 'Wow, that was a real head-scratcher," said Ron Wyden of Oregon, the leading Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. Diplomatically.
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He said maximum pressure — broadly defined as the administration&aposs campaign to apply economic pressure on Iran and isolating it diplomatically to encourage it to change its behavior — is working.
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While both were grilled on topics including Russia and the banning of Muslim immigrants, Ms. Haley showed flashes of humor, seemed well prepared and parted company with Mr. Trump diplomatically.
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Gantz casts himself as more diplomatically accommodating than Netanyahu, urging redoubled efforts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians but stopping short of any commitment to the statehood they seek.
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Many Europeans would consider it odd for the bloc to bolster its indigenous defence capabilities, only to put its future air-power in the hands of a diplomatically freewheeling outsider. ■
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Myanmar finds itself increasingly isolated diplomatically as violence against the country's Muslim minority Rohingya spurs a humanitarian crisis, but an analyst said the country has found one prominent ally: India.
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His advisers concede that the intense schedule — dozens of interactions with leaders from the Middle East and Europe, over a range of delicate issues — could produce unscripted, diplomatically perilous moments.
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Trump tended to say that he had raised military pay more than any president; Pence said diplomatically that he had signed the biggest raise in a decade, which was true.
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While his status as a prince complicates matters diplomatically, legal experts told Insider that Andrew could be compelled to talk to investigators if they file a request through The Hague.
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Despite all the bluster around sanctions, their importance as more than a tool to isolate Iran diplomatically can be measured mainly in preventing Iran from achieving its full economic potential.
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The overall goals of this strategy are to effectively eliminate all designated foreign terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan and to diplomatically neutralize Pakistan and Iran's growing influence in Afghanistan.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Syria has dispersed its warplanes in recent days and that it retains chemical weapons, an issue he says will have to be taken up diplomatically.
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But, tiring of Western sanctions and violent infighting among separatist rebels, Moscow has shown some signs of wanting to dial down a conflict that has cost it diplomatically and economically.
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"What the meddling did create was distrust and animosity in the U.S. and made it almost impossible for two years for Russia and the U.S. to make progress diplomatically," Bolton said.
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But it's also a debate about a very real policy question currently facing the US: Should the US militarily intervene — or intervene at all, in any way, even diplomatically — in Venezuela?
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Gantz casts himself as more diplomatically accommodating than Netanyahu, urging redoubled efforts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, but has stopped short of any commitment to the statehood they seek.
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Gantz casts himself as more diplomatically accommodating than Netanyahu, urging redoubled efforts to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, but has stopped short of any commitment to the statehood they seek.
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But if that's true, offering a national security justification would be both dishonest and diplomatically counterproductive, doing lasting damage to America's credibility in the event that a genuine security threat emerges.
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"What we have is China pushing very hard into the South China Sea, physically, politically, illegally and diplomatically, and the United States refraining from doing very much at all," said Cheng.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a four-nation tour of Africa that is part of a policy push to make his country a more global player, economically and diplomatically.
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China also poses a problem diplomatically, in its attempts to enforce its territorial claims in the South China Sea, and more broadly to impose its will on its smaller, weaker neighbours.
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"We enforced the red line diplomatically, not militarily, and far more effectively than if we had used force," Antony Blinken, a top Obama State Department and White House official, told me.
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The sultanate on Sunday urged Tehran to release the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero, which Iran seized on Friday, and called on all parties to exercise restraint and resolve differences diplomatically.
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The second thing is that it's the further marginalisation of Britain as a power with influence, whether that is true diplomatically, economically or militarily (with the United States or more broadly).
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That we all pull it out and read it one more time," Mattis added saying that the current U.S. response to North Korea was a "diplomatically-led, economic sanction buttressed effort.
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We need to address this diplomatically and consider a variety of options, including possibly expelling senior Cuban and Chinese diplomats, until what are very likely purposeful attacks on our personnel stop.
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This will deter Western executives from assuming positions in Aramco, leading the company to be governed by a cabal of diplomatically immune Saudi royals rather than seasoned oil and investment professionals.
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" In a joint statement, MoveOn, CREDO, and Win Without War said, "We need to stop this slow roll toward a catastrophic war and work towards defusing the North Korean crisis diplomatically.
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Imran Khan, a prominent opposition politician whose positions on foreign and defense policy are often closely aligned with Pakistan's security establishment, called for steps to disengage diplomatically from the United States.
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This means working diplomatically to persuade Ankara that it is not in its interest to develop the bomb, while working with intelligence agencies to prevent Turkey from procuring the means necessary.
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Even before tensions escalated with the United States' killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, Japan was in a tough spot diplomatically, having friendly ties with both Washington and Tehran.
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It's one of many details that will have to be ironed out in what is, diplomatically speaking, the blink of an eye, as the Trump-Kim summit is proposed for May.
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Mr. Maliki also said Mr. Trump's preference for a two-state solution was insufficient and that the Palestinian side had no intention of engaging diplomatically with the United States for now.
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The question was phrased in such a way that he could have answered this much more diplomatically, but this is also the guy who called the president a bum on Twitter.
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I think Egypt is a difficult environment to be in, it's a dictatorship effectively and both the UK and Italy are close allies of Egypt so diplomatically that's a sensitive issue.
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Yun led a small team focused on conducting backchannel conversations in the last several months with North Korea's senior diplomat Choe Son Hui, in an effort to continue to engage diplomatically.
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U.S. goals have broadened beyond fighting Islamic State to curbing Iran and paving the way diplomatically for Assad's eventual departure, though Washington's call for "patience" on that front points to the difficulties.
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Russian Companies Rush to Return to Post-Sanctions Iran | Russia has an advantage in pursuing trade with Iran because it has long backed the country diplomatically and it has strong military ties.
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"There's a lot of great singers out here," Franklin tells PEOPLE diplomatically while celebrating her 74th birthday at the Ritz Carlton in New York City on Thursday, joined by Clive Davis, Rev.
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Tehran stayed in the agreement, maintained its compliance, negotiated with the Europeans to mitigate the effects of the sanctions, and let the US diplomatically isolate itself -- evidently planning to wait things out.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday told the U.S. Army to be ready with military options on North Korea, but emphasized that efforts to deal with Pyongyang were being led diplomatically.
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The European Union delegation in Manila issued a diplomatically worded statement from its ambassador but later retracted it, for reasons not explained, replacing it with another, saying "We don't comment on comments".
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After Mr Xi urged co-operation, Mr Trump's contribution to the phone call was "diplomatically impeccable"; it bolstered "optimism", the paper said, in the two powers' relationship over the next four years.
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In a recent Rolling Stone cover story, he diplomatically danced around a question about Zayn dissing One Direction's music and then sweetly lambasted anyone who says young girls don't have good taste.
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And when she'd tried, during her 2014 book tour, she'd made what Sharry diplomatically refers to as "missteps" by calling for Central American children to be sent back to their home countries.
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The resolution was passed in the 15-member Security Council because the U.S. broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield its veto power, instead abstaining.
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But at the same time, it did exploit a Russian initiative to diplomatically broker the Assad regime to surrender pretty much all of the chemical weapons it had always denied it had.
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In recent months, Abe has been reaching out diplomatically to countries in the region, including China and Russia, to avoid being left out of the new diplomatic order on the Korean Peninsula.
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" A Tuesday statement from White said the Pentagon "welcomes the positive news coming out of the summit and fully supports the ongoing, diplomatically-led efforts with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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For diplomatically-isolated Taiwan the risks are high as the United States is its only major political ally and sole arms supplier, while China is one of the island's largest trade partners.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said "a major, major conflict" with North Korea is possible and that all options are on the table, but that he wants to resolve the crisis diplomatically.
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In the absence of an engaged, diplomatically energized America, others will set the agenda, shape the rules and dominate international institutions — and probably not in ways that advance our interests or values.
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The US has long been the world's richest, most militarily powerful, and most diplomatically influential country on Earth; the centerpiece of its global strategy has been to maintain this position of strength.
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Yes, he is also diplomatically inept, overwhelmed by avarice, thoroughly corrupt and a pathological liar, but it is to white supremacy and to hostility for everyone not white that he always returns.
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The Taliban side will continue to be headed by lead negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, a figure who has been increasingly active diplomatically and who recently met Afghan opposition politicians in Moscow.
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Diplomatically, Abe was left out in the cold during high-profile negotiations with North Korea during this year's talks between Pyongyang, Washington and Seoul, a snub which was felt deeply in Tokyo.
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If Washington and Ankara are seen to be acting in close coordination diplomatically, the threat of joint military action will, by extension, seem all the more credible for anyone watching in Tehran.
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But more broadly, the disagreement has illuminated the ways China uses its economic clout as it tries to get its way diplomatically and looks to secure a foothold in the European marketplace.
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The three countries refuted Venezuela's accusations that they were linked to the attack, which used drones carrying explosives during a military parade, in the latest spat between diplomatically isolated Caracas and Latin America.
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The VP's office said Pence would have delivered an "uncompromising message" about the U.S.'s demands, in line with its campaign to exert "maximum pressure" to further isolate North Korea diplomatically and economically.
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When I ask him about the exultant prose of the Wired profile, he says diplomatically that it's "an example of the attention economy at work" and that people respond better to hero narratives.
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North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile on Monday, its 9th test of the year and a new challenge to worldwide efforts to resolve the Peninsula's crisis diplomatically.
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The classified memos revealed that Darroch described President Donald Trump as "insecure" and his "uniquely dysfunctional" administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" — comments which were confirmed by a U.K. government official to CNN.
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"The fact that we were able to de-escalate, we were able to resolve the situation diplomatically, again, speaks to the fact that we have this dialogue now with the Iranians," Toner said.
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Diplomatically isolated due to the mainland's "One China" policy that forces countries to take sides, Taiwan is jostling to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pacts.
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Under her constitutional role, the 90-year-old monarch never makes any politically or diplomatically sensitive comments in public, and it is rare for the content of her private conversations to be revealed.
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The Washington talks come amid signs members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Myanmar, are tilting diplomatically toward China as the Trump administration's policy on the region remains unclear.
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Tensions in the Taiwan Strait have risen considerably in recent months, as mainland China's military continues to move closer to the island of Taiwan and as Beijing has sought to diplomatically isolate Taipei.
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In his final address to the United Nations body, the normally plodding general secretary threw out his regular script of diplomatically worded missives and went straight for the world leaders on his blacklist.
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"There was a perception among senior people that Mattis was particularly hard on the Iranians, that he didn't necessarily see the need to engage them diplomatically," a former senior White House official said.
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His rollout of new travel restrictions aimed at offering a constitutionally, economically, and diplomatically viable alternative to his campaign pledge of a total ban on Muslim entry to the country has been shambolic.
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"This is a diplomatically led effort by him and the President, and you see him come out with what are some of the conditions that have to be met, diplomacy continues," Mattis said.
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Few in the party were willing to discuss the matter publicly other than to diplomatically emphasize the importance of fielding the candidate most likely to win a state Mr. Trump carried in 2016.
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The U.S. is no longer looking the other way at Hezbollah's criminal enterprises, including drug smuggling and money laundering, the way it did during the Obama administration in order to engage Iran diplomatically.
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In that vein, I was delighted that President Emmanuel Macron of France used his speech diplomatically but clearly to lecture Mr. Trump about the importance of Western values that really made America great.
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Both meetings, while seemingly fruitless, starkly illustrated the extent to which Syria's fate now lies in the hands of foreign powers and offered little hope that those powers could resolve the crisis diplomatically.
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Carlos Vecchio, opposition leader Juan Guaido's representative to the United States, said Russia's role backing Maduro economically, diplomatically and militarily was of growing concern as OPEC member Venezuela's political crisis has dragged on.
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Carlos Vecchio, opposition leader Juan Guaido's representative to the United States, said Russia's role backing Maduro economically, diplomatically and militarily was of growing concern as OPEC member Venezuela's political crisis has dragged on.
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Arguably the most dramatic moment in NATO lore was not in Room 1, but in a larger meeting room called Room 16, which, diplomatically at least, signaled the end of the Soviet Union.
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Comey added that "after he was fired" he was informed by the FBI that some of the language in the memos was "diplomatically sensitive," so he returned them to the bureau for redaction.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one, according to the newspaper.
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Managers are not always in tune with the individual aspirations of their team, so Taylor says the onus is on you to diplomatically be the squeaky wheel and ask for what you want.
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Singapore, despite being less than a quarter of the size of the state of Rhode Island, often punches well above its weight diplomatically and can help to set the rhetorical tone for the region.
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A more violent response was tamped down in debate among Palestinian factions who agreed that an armed confrontation could erode the international support Palestinians have won diplomatically and shift attention from the political process.
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By constantly talking about the smog in Beijing, we have forgotten that China continues to weave its web around the world: First commercially, then economically by its international acquisitions and now diplomatically and militarily.
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A waitress in the café next to the swimming pool (with a big yellow "T" on its submerged floor), explains diplomatically that she needs to do more research before deciding for whom to vote.
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Despite a cloud of uncertainty hanging heavily over current trade negotiations, the fact that the world's two largest economies have taken the step of engaging diplomatically shows that an ideal outcome is a possibility.
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Thornton said greater international cooperation in enforcing existing sanctions and applying pressure will be crucial to Tillerson's "peaceful pressure" campaign to isolate North Korea diplomatically and economically to force them to the negotiating table.
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BERLIN — The German Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a symbolic but fraught resolution on Thursday declaring the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide, escalating tensions with Turkey at a diplomatically delicate juncture.
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Mr. Erdogan has become isolated diplomatically after adopting an increasingly authoritarian stand, a combative position with Europe regarding the international migrant crisis, and a newly muscular foreign policy, including a failed strategy in Syria.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has also begun a rare two-day visit to Sweden, which represents the United States diplomatically in the isolated country, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Mr. Trudeau, who has joked about welcoming Americans to his country if they are afraid of a Donald J. Trump presidency, diplomatically declined to criticize the Republican presidential front-runner during the news conference.
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Banter and alcohol-fueled performers are diplomatically weeded out, all that remains—bar Elaine—are the serious singers pacing around, sipping lukewarm honey, and lemon water, and getting back-rubs from their vocal coaches.
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Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell came to the same conclusion, though he expressed it somewhat less diplomatically: "From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty," he told People magazine in 1974.
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Meanwhile, Trump International Hotel continued accepting foreign payments in Washington, where every diplomatically recognized nation has an embassy and where foreigners account for 27 percent of visitor spending, according to the local tourism authorities.
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Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus issued a statement calling on the administration to "redouble its efforts to engage our allies and enforce international prohibitions on chemical weapons diplomatically" rather than use force again.
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Jack G. Shaheen, who diplomatically but tenaciously lobbied to shatter demeaning stereotypes of Arabs in popular culture as "billionaires, bombers, belly dancers and boisterous bargainers," died on Sunday in Charleston, S.C. He was 29.
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" As he recalled in his 22012 memoir, "Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War," he answered, diplomatically, with an old Venetian proverb, "Prima de parlar, tasi" — "Before you speak, be quiet.
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Despite the tenor of some China commentary, it is far from fated that even economically, diplomatically and militarily ascendant China will steamroll India and ensconce itself as the predominant power in the Indian Ocean.
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Stefan M. Selig, a former undersecretary of commerce during the Obama administration who pushed for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, called the United States' withdrawal from the proposed agreement a loss commercially, diplomatically and strategically.
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For decades, the United Nations and the United States refused to recognize Israel's seizure of the Golan Heights and the West Bank in 1967, arguing that the contours of Israel must be negotiated diplomatically.
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HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) - As Beijing intensifies its effort to further isolate Taiwan diplomatically, Taipei is actively but discreetly broadening security ties with regional powers beyond its long-standing relationship with the United States.
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"We currently are in a diplomatically led effort and how many times have you seen the U.N. Security Council vote unanimously, now twice in a row, to impose stronger sanctions on North Korea," Mattis said.
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Republicans and Democrats, for once, should put aside partisan agendas and create diplomatically negotiated "safe zones" for Syrians inside of Syria, or risk another Rwanda -- a preventable genocide that even President Bill Clinton deeply regrets.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China regrets Iran's decision to boost uranium enrichment above a cap set in a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, its foreign ministry said on Monday, reiterating that the standoff needed to be resolved diplomatically.
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And while she diplomatically answers my Kylie-related questions throughout the day, Woods never hesitates (with a mean side eye) to make it clear that while Jenner is her best friend, this is her story.
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These are the most prominent examples of skin care campaigns gone racist, but if you look broadly at the company's international marketing, you'll find other ads that overtly (if more diplomatically) praise and prioritize whiteness.
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Amid ongoing flare-ups between the U.S. and Iran, President Trump and his allies will travel this week to diplomatically engage allies on Middle East peace, North Korea's nuclear program, U.S.–China trade and more.
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The level of concern can be lower than it would be otherwise because there's no pilot inside, so we need to make sure we're still doing all the things diplomatically and economically that we should.
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The bottom line: Pompeo's visit underscores that the Trump administration will leave no stone unturned in its efforts to diplomatically corner Maduro, combat Chinese influence and bolster ties with like-minded allies in the region.
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That raises the risk of a clash between two Russian allies and of Moscow's own forces being sucked into some kind of incident with NATO member Turkey, to which it has drawn steadily closer diplomatically.
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That's the autonomy-minded Kurdish militant group at war with NATO member Turkey and listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara, the US, and the EU. The US partnership with the SDF remains diplomatically awkward.
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ICAO's 36-state governing council can act to settle the overflights issue presented by Qatar, but such interventions are rare and time-consuming because the specialized United Nations agency usually negotiates disputes diplomatically through consensus.
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But critics accuse it of seeking to punch above its weight diplomatically, meddling in regional affairs and using the Arabic channel of Al Jazeera, the satellite television network it set up, as a propaganda tool.
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Two sources said the countries remaining in MESA were moving ahead with the initiative and would press Egypt diplomatically to revoke its withdrawal, with one saying that the decision did not appear to be final.
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Toward that end, there's a lot we can do diplomatically and financially to press the regime to take steps toward protecting free speech and rule of law, while publicly shaming it for flouting those principles.
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Shashank Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said the situation is reminiscent of a similar standoff in 1986, which involved 200,000 troops on each side but ended diplomatically.
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Russia has cultivated close ties with all the major players in the Middle East and looks likely to have more influence over events in the region than a diplomatically challenged and militarily wary United States.
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Any visit by a high-profile American is a political minefield and Rodman has been criticized for failing to use his influence on leaders who are otherwise isolated diplomatically from the rest of the world.
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"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch reportedly wrote to senior British politicians in one memo.
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Most importantly, the United States and its Western allies must have the political will to deal with Iran peacefully, diplomatically and with the understanding that military actions will not advance long-term normalization of relations.
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" In another, Darroch reportedly wrote to senior politicians in Britain, "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.
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That said, Trump has triggered a war of brinksmanship with a diplomatically mature country that will not back down, and has the tools to inflict serious pain on the U.S. economy, and on Trump politically.
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Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told CNN the Taiwan government felt relations with the US had grown stronger in recent years, but it was vital for Washington to continue to support Taipei militarily and diplomatically.
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"The negotiations have been in a certain way a failure, more diplomatically than politically," said Luuk van Middelaar, a Dutch philosopher and former aide to the first president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy.
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Asked if the Saudis were concerned about the impending Children and Armed Conflict report and what the kingdom would do if it were listed in the annex, Ambassador al-Moallimi gave a diplomatically ambiguous answer.
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Trump administration officials argue that the bill ties their hands diplomatically — but that may be part of the point for Hill Republicans who want to take a harder line on Russia than President Donald Trump.
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Yet President Barack Obama's administration did not want to publicize those intrusions, choosing to handle them diplomatically — perhaps because at the time they looked more like classic espionage than an effort to manipulate American politics.
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" On Thursday a State Department spokesperson didn't deny that it hadn't consulted with Congress, telling CNN in a statement that "the State Department continues to engage on the question of these and other sanctions diplomatically.
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"As the SecDef has stated there are a wide range of military options available to the President but it is important to note that this is still a diplomatically led effort," Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col.
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There is no way to determine whether Russia will come to Iran's rescue at a moment of crisis, but it is likely that Russia will try to intervene diplomatically to prevent any harm to Iran.
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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long argued that, far from being diplomatically isolated because of its policies toward the Palestinians, Israel is constantly being courted by countries seeking help in technology, intelligence and counterterrorism.
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Although both India and Pakistan say they want to resolve the current crisis diplomatically, the two governments may be beholden to their electorates, amid calls for firm military responses from both sides of the border.
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Beijing has cut off official communication with Taipei because Tsai has refused to accept China's view that the island is a part of China, and has put pressure on the trade-reliant island diplomatically and economically.
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But perhaps the biggest gem of the genre is Paradox's Hearts of Iron 4, a game that attempts to simulate the entire of World War 2 economically, diplomatically, and militarily—and succeeds shockingly well at it.
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While Jezebel writer Frida Garza vehemently dislikes the plant, and Vox's Ellen Airhart diplomatically chooses not to express an opinion one way or the other, I'm finding it hard to contain my enthusiasm for this thing.
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China says its companies and citizens face a growing threat from terrorism as its global footprint expands, and the government has been getting more involved diplomatically in trouble spots in areas such as the Middle East.
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"There is only one solution to Syria, and that's being hand in hand with Russia diplomatically to solve that," he said while responding to audience questions following a foreign policy address at the University of Chicago.
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India has been ratcheting up pressure on Pakistan, seeking to diplomatically isolate it at the U.N. General Assembly in New York and winning expressions of condemnation from the United States, Britain and France over the attack.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Friday that North Korea would have capability to send long-range ballistic missiles in a few months and urged China to be more active diplomatically to resolve the crisis.
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I don&apost know, sometime after I was fired the FBI apparently made a decision that there was some words in at least two of the memos -- maybe one, I think two -- that were diplomatically sensitive.
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Peru's Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra diplomatically said that he believed the World Cup would go back to South America, and was ecstatic that Peru was back in the tournament for the first time in 36 years.
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China and Russia for years have propped up diplomatically and economically both North Korea and Syria -- often exercising their vetoes in the UN Security Council to beat back Western challenges to their allies' more outrageous actions.
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Trump has said "a major, major conflict" with North Korea is possible and all options are on the table but that he wanted to resolve the crisis diplomatically, possibly through the extended use of economic sanctions.
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That is, of course, diplomatically impossible, although UK officials have already taken the step of temporarily severing intelligence-sharing links with the United States, after classified information about the Manchester bombings appeared in the American press.
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This being her third treatment, Kardashian knows what's to come: "Now the after, today and all night..." Ourian jumps in to finish her sentence diplomatically, "You're going to be very aware of your back," he says.
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This is, at its core, a contest of who will dominate Asia diplomatically, economically and militarily but also who will lay claim to the title of 22019st global superpower — and there can be only one victor.
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Trump, who has spearheaded the push to economically and diplomatically isolate North Korea, will reportedly ask Kim to dismantle the country's nuclear arsenal without conceding significant ground on economic sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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To date, Beijing has been an important partner in Trump's maximum pressure campaign to diplomatically isolate North Korea and punish it economically, as it make makes up for about 90% of all of Pyongyang's foreign trade.
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The Trump team has also called for NATO members to spend more on defense — the goal is 2% of each country's GDP -- which is exactly what the Obama administration also called for, albeit somewhat more diplomatically.
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"It has to be a large majority of the membership actually recognizing diplomatically the authorities that they regard as legitimate," Lagarde said in a press conference at the IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington.
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Only when Washington makes a "bold decision" to end its military exercises with South Korea, halt sanctions and cease moves that diplomatically isolate North Korea can a dialogue between the two countries bear fruit, he added.
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With the US stepping away from its role as a leader of the global fight against climate change, Beijing is already moving to fill the void, giving it a chance to benefit both diplomatically and economically.
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While the votes were largely symbolic, they offered some insight into the challenges the United States is facing diplomatically over what critics call its unbridled support of Israel's side in the protracted conflict with the Palestinians.
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His good looks (see: "Literally Just 27 Really Hot Photos Of Justin Trudeau") and willingness to openly — albeit diplomatically — challenge Trump only endeared him further to liberals looking for comfort after the global turbulence of 2016.
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Turkey sent troops to Qatar after Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states diplomatically isolated Qatar for its support of Iran, and Turkey is a large customer of Iranian oil and gas — in violation of U.S. sanctions.
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Saudi Arabia said the summit was the wrong forum for matters of importance to the world's 1.75 billion Muslims, though some analysts suspected the kingdom feared being diplomatically isolated by regional rivals Iran, Qatar and Turkey.
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"Andrew went into the bathroom, he did... what he did, and he came out with blood coming out of his nose," he says diplomatically, carefully navigating his word choices for this corroboration, all these years later.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote at one point, according to the British news outlet.
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Diplomatically shunned by the young American nation and its president, Thomas Jefferson, Haiti accrued onerous and largely immoral debts from France that left the young nation struggling to find its economic footing well into the 20th century.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that Syria had dispersed its warplanes in recent days and that it retained chemical weapons, an issue he said would have to be taken up diplomatically.
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Syrian Civil War Fast Facts It has been accused of supplying the government with arms to commit mass war crimes and crimes against humanity from the start of the civil war, while shielding it diplomatically from accountability.
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"Diplomatically, it was sensitive to make U.S. platforms come to Biarritz and sign something while the American president wasn't there," he said, adding that Google, Facebook and Snapchat were among the platforms due to sign the charter.
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And so, as Brian Christopher Jones of the University of Dundee puts it, despite 30 years of democracy, Taiwan remains as vulnerable as ever, protected militarily by America but left undefended diplomatically by most of the world.
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There had been some speculation that the Obamas might be invited due to the personal rapport between the former president and Harry, but it would have been diplomatically awkward to invite the Obamas and not the Trumps.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, diplomatically isolated and squeezed by U.N. sanctions, has appointed as foreign minister its negotiator at failed international talks aimed at getting it to disarm, according to a North Korean diplomatic note to Britain.
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"We not only wish India should support the Baluch national struggle diplomatically and financially, but the whole world," said Baloch, a doctor-turned-guerrilla believed to be about 50, in filmed responses to questions sent by Reuters.
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At the United Nations this week, Trump's envoy Nikki Haley encouraged fellow members of the UN Security Council to exhaust all options diplomatically -- including tough new sanctions -- in an attempt to shut off support for North Korea.
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During a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday, Susan Thornton, a top State Department Asia official, laid out how the Trump administration is using a variety of strategies to isolate North Korea diplomatically and squeeze its economy.
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Frame said Holt was also one of the first politicians to work to end the infamous White Australia policy, which severely restricted immigration from non-European countries, and to reach out diplomatically to his nation's Asian neighbors.
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At a news conference last Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, said that multilateralism was "under attack from many directions," but diplomatically sidestepped a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a direct threat.
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A diplomatic process that Mr. Moon helped create could be quickly overturned, that line of thinking goes, if a new administration were to take office in Washington with a more skeptical take on diplomatically engaging the North.
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"Had the other side gotten in, the market would have gone down 50 percent from where it was," Mr. Trump told a gathering of women at the White House last week, diplomatically avoiding the name Hillary Clinton.
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A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Yun has become diplomatically "untethered," not fully connected to a core U.S. approach that is emphasizing economic sanctions and the threat of military action rather than diplomacy.
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Whether you like Trump or hate him, you can't conclude anything other than this is a massive, massive gamble -- the likes of which we haven't seen from an American president, diplomatically speaking, in a very long time.
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And we ask you to recognize us diplomatically, to include us in peace negotiations and to give us your word that even after Raqqa's liberation you will prevent attempts by Turkey to destroy what we've built here.
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That decision sparked a rivalry between the two men that has still not dissipated even though Wiggins is long retired, but Thomas diplomatically played down suggestions on Wednesday that he wanted to be the new boss here.
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The United Nations and the United States have steadfastly refused to recognize Israel's seizure of the Golan Heights or the West Bank, arguing that the contours of Israel and a new Palestinian state must be negotiated diplomatically.
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Kushner, in a rare public speech, said the relocation from Tel Aviv, a diplomatically and politically sensitive step promised but never implemented by a succession of U.S. presidents, showed that Trump was a man of his word.
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But first, a Paley Center executive read a diplomatically worded request that the audience refrain from sharing any details of plot, or posting advance reviews, so "fans not seeing it for several more months" can go in fresh.
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Brexit, and a no-deal exit in particular, promises to hurt the economy and leave the country diplomatically isolated in a world where its interests are under threat, as they are right now in the Strait of Hormuz.
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As the post diplomatically states (emphasis ours):Until now, Chrome Web Store policy has permitted cryptocurrency mining in extensions as long as it is the extension's single purpose, and the user is adequately informed about the mining behavior.
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The resulting sun-print banner, its familiar shade of pale blue and round plates diplomatically organized along the edges, recalls earlier gatherings during the building's former use as the United Nations General Assembly headquarters from 1946 to 1950.
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In summary, the cost of the visa suspension and the immigration ban on Iraqis could be very high politically, diplomatically and security wise against the low likelihood of acts of terrorism perpetrated by Iraqis in the United States.
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But he had to diplomatically reply to the mighty director that sexcapades from outer space wasn't necessarily going to make for the best science fiction film ever, and they'd probably be better off collaborating on an original screenplay.
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Taiwan, isolated diplomatically and reliant on the United States as its only arms supplier, has struggled to maintain modern military wares in the face of China's growing might across the 180 km-wide Taiwan Strait to its west.
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If we want to preserve, to the maximum extent possible, an open and borderless Internet, then the path is obvious: Allow the IANA transition to proceed, and then diplomatically twist arms to shut down the ITU's telecommunication sector.
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Western countries, particularly the United States and Britain, have quietly backed the Arab states diplomatically and sell them billions of dollars a year in arms, but have mostly avoided direct public involvement so far in the Yemen conflict.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one particularly damning cable, according to The Mail on Sunday.
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I was not doing a very good job making myself clear, partly because I hadn't fully thought it through beforehand, and partly because I was diplomatically trying to avoid implying that a certain student's story had been boring.
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Even as President Obama sought to keep America out of new military entanglements, Mr. Kerry has been determined to keep the nation engaged diplomatically and lead the world toward constructive results, despite times when the problems seem intractable.
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Warning about the horrors of a war on the Korean peninsula, Mattis has also promoted a diplomatically-led strategy to pressure North Korea over its efforts to build a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the United States.
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Officials in Mr. Moon's government have often said that Mr. Trump's unconventional approach may offer the best chance for diplomatically resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis, a problem that successive United States administrations have failed to address successfully.
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They are doing so by supporting terrorists and militias, subverting and intimidating our friends, displacing us diplomatically, and deploying and distributing military technology that makes it harder and more dangerous for the United States to maintain its presence.
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The candid memos don't contain much that media reports haven't already documented, or that Trump administration officials haven't already said (in some cases even less diplomatically), or that isn't already obvious to any watcher of UK-US relations.
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"As the State Department has explained, '(w)hile (redacted) understands that delays may occur, it is vital diplomatically that the United States is able to follow through promptly on its commitment to repatriate this (redacted),' " the government wrote.
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A majority of American voters, 2628 percent, said in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday that tensions between the U.S. and North Korea will be resolved diplomatically, compared to 28503 percent who think it will require military force.
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Juncker, a former Luxembourg premier, courted criticism in June 2016 when he attended an economic forum with Putin in St Petersburg when most EU leaders were seeking to isolate Russia diplomatically over Russia's 2014 seizure of Ukraine's Crimea.
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"There is no daylight between the Untied States, the Republic of Korea and Japan on the need to continue to isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically until they abandon their nuclear missile program," Pence said following the meeting.
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Real reform will substantially reduce their number but also ensure that important responsibilities are incorporated into other parts of the department (double-hatting officials with a special envoy title, when its termination would be politically or diplomatically problematic).
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Tuesday that comments by the North Korean ambassador casting doubt over a Malaysian investigation into the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader were "diplomatically rude".
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Pope Francis ended a diplomatically tricky trip to Asia on Saturday, seeking the forgiveness of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh after his controversial decision to not directly refer to their plight when he visited their homeland, Myanmar.
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But as Erna Solberg, Norway's prime minister, put it diplomatically when she met Mrs May in Oslo this week, joining with the declared intention of leaving a few years later would be "a little bit difficult" for other members.
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The president is meanwhile unpicking the multinational deal to roll back Iran's nuclear-arms programme, which raises the chances of the Iranians resuming the programme and reduces, perhaps to zero, any prospect of the resulting crisis being handled diplomatically.
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English said in an emailed statement that he canceled the meeting with former Hong Kong legislator Martin Lee and former colonial chief secretary Anson Chan on the eve of the appointment after he was advised it was "diplomatically sensitive".
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Washington (CNN)The two top members of the Senate foreign relations committee said they're still evaluating the bombshell decision by countries in the Persian Gulf to diplomatically freeze out Qatar, as well as the President's reaction to the crisis.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister said on Thursday the standoff over North Korea's nuclear program must be resolved diplomatically, and she was certain Washington would consult her government first if a military option were to be considered.
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Qatar, the tiny emirate now being diplomatically frozen out of the region, is home to Al Udeid Airbase, home to about 10,000 American servicemen and a key strategic airbase for U.S. Central Command operations in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
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In short, the President has hurt us diplomatically, eliminated the substantial leverage we had to secure fair treatment for the United States and our companies, and weakened an accord that plays a crucial role in combating a profound threat.
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"It is right now a diplomatically led economic sanction buttressed effort to try and turn North Korea off this path," Mattis said Monday during his opening remarks at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington.
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"It is right now a diplomatically led, economic sanctions-buttressed effort to try to turn North Korea off of this path," Mattis said during his keynote address at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington.
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"Diplomatically and militarily, Moscow plays both arsonist and firefighter, fueling tensions among all parties in Syria... then serving as an arbitrator, to resolve disputes, attempting to undermine and weaken each party's bargaining positions," said U.S. Army General Joseph Votel.
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In recent months, the temperature has risen as the US broadens its diplomatic support for the pro-independence leadership that won Taiwan's elections in 2016, while China has increased its efforts to diplomatically isolate and militarily threaten the island.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the Iran nuclear deal was in danger after repeated violations by Tehran, but added that a dispute mechanism triggered by France, Britain and Germany aimed to resolve the problems diplomatically.
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An official at the Turkish Embassy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of a diplomatically tense case, said that the two Turkish guards were only briefly detained, and that they have since returned to Turkey.
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And though he's expressed a desire to remain diplomatically impartial -- "I think we will stay right in our lane," he said last week when questioned about Brexit -- he has nevertheless bemoaned May's handling of the issue over and over.
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Facing a rocky relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump due to his threats to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico has backed him diplomatically on issues that imply no great political cost for the government.
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"Some of the issues are ones that will need to be litigated out and may need to be negotiated diplomatically," said Michael Daniel, former White House coordinator for cybersecurity and current president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance.
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President Donald Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton, told reporters Tuesday in Moscow that the Russian effort to interfere in America's elections is "objectionable" and made it "impossible for two years" for the United States and Russia to make progress diplomatically.
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After meeting Kim Yong Chol, the president said he was putting new sanctions against the North on hold and doesn&apost want to use the term "maximum pressure" anymore — referring to his signature policy to isolate Pyongyang economically and diplomatically.
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"We have to remain deeply engaged in global affairs, and if we're not, then I think you'll see comments coming back to us saying, 'you're losing your leadership role, you need to be much more aggressive diplomatically, economically,'" Cohen said.
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CUCUTA, Colombia/TIENDITAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela arrived in the Colombian border city of Cucuta on Thursday as diplomatically-isolated President Nicolas Maduro appeared set to block its entry amid an escalating political crisis.
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The former diplomatically declined to comment on Germany's coalition deal, but both pointed to significant increases in the French defence budget and, as Judy Dempsey of Carnegie Europe notes, emphasised action where Germany's defence minister preferred to talk about institutions.
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Taiwan, isolated diplomatically and reliant on the United States as its only arms supplier, has struggled to maintain modern military wares in the face of China's growing might across the 180 km-wide (112 mile) Taiwan Strait to its west.
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"If the Vietnamese government is coercing your companies to aid and abet censorship, this is an issue of concern that needs to be raised diplomatically and at the highest levels," the Congressional Vietnam Caucus said in a letter seen by Reuters.
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The "she" is in reference to Victoria Nuland, who was President Obama's top State Department official overseeing Russian relations and was loathed by many in the Russian government (a diplomatically embarrassing private conversation she had was once taped and leaked).
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Diplomatically, Xi's foreign policy has allowed for North Korea's successful testings of nuclear and hydrogen bombs, the United States' pivot back to Asia, and an anti-China united front formed by South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations, the letter said.
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"When you talk about other people getting into that space, we should be happy if someone figures out how to do parts of it, some routes, better than us or faster than us or cheaper than us," he says, somewhat diplomatically.
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Zamaninia's comments come as Iran is under scrutiny amid growing tensions with the U.S. and the possibility that the U.S. could revoke an international nuclear pact, agreed during former President Barack Obama's administration, that brought Iran in from the cold, diplomatically.
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"I feel like people definitely see what me and Vic are doing––people that are in higher positions than we are now––and I feel like we provide a nice platform for these artists to get seen," Moreno answers, diplomatically.
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Last year he secured a long-sought, diplomatically dicey overhaul of the International Monetary Fund to reduce the influence of Europe and Persian Gulf states so that emerging nations like China could have prominence in the organization befitting their economic heft.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House adviser Jared Kushner, who is also Trump's son-in-law, have led the charge to stay in, arguing that it's better diplomatically while keeping the U.S. in international discussions regarding climate policy.
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When I spoke to the key South Korean national security adviser, just around the Olympic games, they were pleased that President Trump at least publicly supported and the administrator supported the South Korean plan of trying to move forward diplomatically. Yeah.
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"Some believe that the dollars were allowed to flow in and now they are pulling it back to try and get Palau to establish ties diplomatically," Jeffrey Barabe, owner of Palau Central Hotel and Palau Carolines Resort in Koror, told Reuters.
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China considers the small island that has diplomatic relations with fewer than two dozen countries to be a renegade province of its own, and as such the U.S. does not recognize it diplomatically or have normalized relations, including a formal embassy.
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"But whether that means that an America First president is willing to significantly invest diplomatically and financially in Central America in ways López Obrador may have been led to believe are possible, is an altogether different proposition," Mr. Sarukhán said.
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"They don't want a crisis in Jordan, they don't want a flare-up between Israel and the Iranians and a regional war, so the U.S. could very well get involved diplomatically," said Aron Lund, a Century Foundation fellow and Syria analyst.
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After he — diplomatically, of course — pointed out that my bridge-building skills needed work, I started paying closer attention and picked up a few lessons on diplomacy that have helped me to be a more effective ambassador for my children. 1.
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" Justin Trudeau's affectionate comments were a radical departure from American reactions to Mr. Castro's death — the White House diplomatically said it hoped for warmer relations with Cuba, while President-elect Donald J. Trump gleefully posted on Twitter, "Fidel Castro is dead!
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The president has charged us to develop policies and tactics both diplomatically and militarily to attack terrorism in its many forms, wherever it exists in the world, and wherever it might present a threat to the homeland or Americans anywhere.
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If the North insists, as it has in the past, that it must first be recognized as a nuclear weapons power, the United States can make the case that the ultimate objective — a denuclearized Korean Peninsula — cannot be achieved diplomatically.
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But Mr. Assad's renewed use of sarin gas — which the United States and Russia stopped him from employing in 2013 by diplomatically enforcing President Obama's much maligned red line against chemical weapons — was totally unnecessary and hugely embarrassing to Moscow.
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As the European Union and the United States sought to punish Sri Lanka over human rights abuses during the decades-long civil war between government forces and the Tamil Tigers, China acted on its behalf diplomatically at the United Nations.
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Russia has long urged for the two states to come to the negotiating table and diplomatically work to reduce tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile weapons development program, which Pyongyang continues to pursue despite harsh sanctions from the United Nations.
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To become "Ocean Master," Orm has to unite the many kingdoms of the sea, which means diplomatically (and sometimes by other means too) convincing all of them, including the aforementioned giant crab civilization known as the Brine Kingdom, to join him.
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Singapore is probably the most diplomatically neutral place where they've based people historically - more for trade reasons than diplomacy, said John Kim, a Korean-American businessman who advises a non-profit offering training in entrepreneurship and business in North Korea.
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At the beginning of the campaign, each faction is just a powerful family, and there are so many of them running around that there is tons of flexibility to find new allies, form new coalitions, and diplomatically encircle your enemies.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will support Syria diplomatically and will demand in the United Nations that Turkey halt its military operation in Syria's Afrin, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament's security committee told RIA news on Saturday.
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What we do know, though, is it will be a long time before the dust settles, and unless many fundamental changes occur legally, diplomatically, and scientifically, any new administration can bring Obama's policies back to life with a pen and a phone.
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Serbia has been performing a delicate balancing act between its ambition to join its biggest trading partner the European Union, and its historical ties with Russia, which shares its Orthodox Christian faith and backed it diplomatically during a 1999 NATO bombing campaign.
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"It is for our members to indicate which authority they are recognizing diplomatically so we can then follow through," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in a press conference at the start of the IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington.
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Well, when the news covers 'em and people talk about 'em, it seems to escalate the rhetoric in a time where we are also trying to calm things down and work diplomatically with China and other allies to try and deescalate the fight.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - The head of the World Trade Organization diplomatically took issue with U.S. President Donald Trump's description of the WTO as a catastrophe on Tuesday, pointing out that the United States actually had a better deal than other countries in the club.
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The diplomatically isolated North is almost entirely dependent on trade with China to prop up its impoverished economy, and about three quarters of that trade flows across the winding Yalu River to Dandong, a sleepy port city in China's north-eastern Liaoning province.
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But his tweet ignores the strategic ambiguity built into the US compact with China over Taiwan, which allows Washington to offer the island the means for its defense without recognizing it diplomatically in a way that could spark a confrontation with Beijing.
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While this type of rhetoric is consistent with past statements from Pyongyang, it is notable that it comes just hours after Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson alluded to signs of progress toward diplomatically de-escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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However, it continues to allow anti-India militant groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to operate in Pakistan and views them as convenient proxies in their effort to balance power with a diplomatically and militarily more powerful India.
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These are dialogue choices where the objective is to diplomatically navigate friendships, rather than make more binary, life-or-death decisions, and it's these parts I've always loved the most, even while the more obviously memorable ones come with lashings of blood.
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"From an international perspective, walking away from the deal undermines US credibility internationally and will discourage other countries, such as North Korea, from resolving their disputes with Washington diplomatically," said Ahmad Majidyar, director of the Iran Observed Project at the Middle East Institute.
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All the political templates that moved against him domestically shifted in his favor diplomatically: Europe after Waterloo craved peace and stability, and Spanish decline continued, rendering her American possessions indefensible, as Adams made abundantly clear in negotiating the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819.
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Tong Zhao, fellow at the Carnegie Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, told CNN at the time that it appeared the Chinese government had decided to move past the issue, which he said had led to major losses for both countries, diplomatically and economically.
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Diplomatically isolated North Korea, under U.N. security Council sanctions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, announced the planned shutdown of its nuclear test site amid a dramatic round of contact with its long-time bitter rivals, South Korea and the United States.
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Over the last five years, conflicts in Syria and Iraq have continued to frustrate the United States diplomatically, sapped military resources and provided a breeding ground for Islamic State radicals, who have spread bloodshed and destruction in the region and the West.
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"At the same time while willing to engage diplomatically, we are going to have to confront Russia when it comes to areas where they attack us, whether it be with cyber, or they try to change borders using armed force," he continued.
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Mr. Modi followed the strikes with a campaign to isolate Pakistan diplomatically — he denounced the country as "a mother ship of terrorism" at a summit meeting last week — and they have unleashed a nationalist fury within India that may be hard to contain.
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Then came what the North Korean government considered to be an unforgivable act of treachery: In 1992, as Communist regimes were collapsing across Eurasia, the Chinese government normalized relations with South Korea, leaving Kim Il-sung diplomatically isolated and economically in the dust.
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Fauci, and Birx, have tried to approach those issues diplomatically, but have also seemed to find it increasingly difficult to hide their momentary frustrations with the president during briefings, and Fauci recently gave a forthright interview in which he described working with Trump.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States supports Europe's move to initiate the dispute mechanism in Iran's nuclear deal, the U.S. top envoy for Iran told Reuters on Tuesday, but would like to see Europeans join Washington in its efforts to diplomatically isolate Tehran.
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China's Foreign Ministry has also ramped up a decades-long effort to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, significantly whittling down its list of diplomatic allies over the course of 2018, and the Chinese military has held large-scale live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait.
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MOSCOW, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Russia will support Syria diplomatically and will demand in the United Nations that Turkey halt its military operation in Syria's Afrin, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament's security committee told RIA news on Saturday.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's stunning decision to meet with North Korea's despotic leader, Kim Jong Un, might have originated in his administration's campaign to squeeze the country economically and diplomatically, but it was triggered by some deft diplomatic maneuvering by South Korea.
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Groups like the Humane Society of the United States and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals suggest, more diplomatically, that "no kill" is a noble aspiration but often imperfect in practice, as it results in warehousing and overcrowding.
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But it also reinforces the degree to which Trump is willing to go it alone on the environment, a decision observers say will hurt the United States diplomatically and threaten the world's efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions and confront climate change.
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While the country recently joined with other global powers in condemning an attack on a former Russian double agent who was poisoned, along with his daughter, in the U.K. at the start of March, it has also tried to keep the peace diplomatically.
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BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - As China diplomatically confronts the United States and South Korea over new missile defenses and intensifies pressure on Japan at sea over disputed islets, Beijing is signaling it is prepared to stand its ground on two key regional fronts.
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In search of a better life, he crossed the Black Sea and settled down in the prosperous subtropical oasis with a tourism-based economy, which in the early 1990s would become an internationally quarantined piece of land — diplomatically shut out from other nations.
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In addition to sanctions, the bill would require the president to produce strategies on addressing the nuclear and ballistic missile threat posed by North Korea, ending North Korean labor trafficking practices around the world and globally isolating North Korea diplomatically and economically.
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The hope is that by the time Trump takes over from President Barack Obama, he will recognize that China has advanced so far economically, diplomatically and militarily that it is unwise to pick fights with Beijing over such a bedrock principle, he added.
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Duyeon Kim, a Seoul-based nonresident fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, said on Tuesday that North Korea was "playing dirty and not diplomatically, apparently hoping this might force Malaysia to reverse its findings" about Mr. Kim's killing.
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"If the Vietnamese government is coercing your companies to aid and abet censorship, this is an issue of concern that needs to be raised diplomatically and at the highest levels," the Congressional Vietnam Caucus said in the letter seen by VICE News.
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"If it&aposs just the engine test stand at Sohae that will be dismantled, diplomatically it has value but it doesn&apost really change North Korea&aposs ability to test more engines if they chose to do so at a different facility," Town said.
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Atlantic Council experts favor a three-pronged, diplomatic, economic, and military response, including but not limited to the following: - Diplomatically, the U.S., NATO, the EU, and other western allies should not only condemn the Russian actions but also detail how they violate specific international conventions.
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Tsai, who departed Taipei on Saturday, pledged to bolster Taiwan's international profile as she set off on a trip to reinforce relations with diplomatic allies in Central America, a task that has taken on new urgency as Beijing ramps up efforts to diplomatically isolate Taipei.
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The official said that countering that narrative in public and diplomatically to convince other nations that there was no other plausible narrative had helped seal the "only collective expulsion of intelligence officers and other covert networks under diplomatic cover" from more than 20 countries.
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"The Chinese insist that they only want to bring the two states together diplomatically, but they don't want to be cut out of the picture altogether," John Hemmings, Asia Director at the Henry Jackson Society, a British foreign policy think tank, told VICE News.
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His statements appear to fly in the face of the longstanding assumption underlying U.S. foreign policy -- that supporting allies financially, diplomatically and militarily promotes a global system of unfettered free trade, democracy and stability that is overwhelmingly in the national interests of the United States.
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"They try to isolate diplomatically, they try to strangulate economically, they're trying to strangulate our water resources – and water automatically will have an impact on your economy, your agriculture and your irrigation," Muzammil Hussain, chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), told Reuters.
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The U.N. resolution passed in the 15-member Security Council because the United States, under the administration of former President Barack Obama, did not wield its veto power and instead abstained, breaking with its long-standing tradition of diplomatically shielding Israel at the international body.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in lauded the opening of the new headquarters, saying recent steps toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula were only possible due to the deterrent provided by the US-South Korea alliance, and the allies' efforts to engage North Korea diplomatically.
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OPINION: Trump's fiery rhetoric plays into Kim's hands However, Zeldin also said that reporting of the development "increases the urgency of the time sensitivity" of efforts being taken by the US and its international partners to address North Korea's missile and nuclear programs diplomatically.
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North Korea hasn't launched a missile test since engaging diplomatically with the U.S. last year, but it has continued to otherwise refine and advance its nuclear weapons program in the months since Trump first met with Kim last June in Singapore, U.S. officials have said.
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If you accept that you have nothing to lose here, you could state diplomatically yet firmly that you're open to an interviewer contacting you if there is serious interest — but your time is too valuable to keep chasing someone who doesn't show up for appointments.
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"I think that right now with the growing consensus against terrorism, they'll find themselves diplomatically isolated, they'll find themselves economically in increasing trouble as countries that are damaged by this terrorism coming out of there say enough is enough and take steps," he said.
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That one of humanity's biggest carbon emitters would leave the formal diplomatic process — designed to transparently account for the potent heat-trapping carbon emitted by countries — is at best a dubious policy, and at worst, environmentally and diplomatically damaging, say political and scientific researchers.
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The leverage includes keeping in place 2,200 American troops, who have been mostly fighting the Islamic State, in eastern Syria; making clear Mr. Assad will have to change his behavior to get control of that area's oil and gas resources; and becoming more engaged diplomatically.
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The exchange came a day after South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said the standoff over North Korea's nuclear program must be resolved diplomatically, and added that she was certain Washington would consult her government first if a military option were to be considered.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Friday that recent steps toward denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula were only possible due to the deterrent provided by the US-South Korea alliance, and preparations made in tandem to engage North Korea diplomatically.
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At various times, Kissinger sought to convince the North Vietnamese, Arab dictators, and the Soviet Union to deal diplomatically with a sober American Dr. Jekyll such as himself rather than with an unpredictable Commander in Chief Nixon (sometimes playing the role of Mr. Hyde).
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The administration of President Moon Jae-in of South Korea appears to have agreed with Mr. Kim that establishing a more stable peace is the first priority, and it has been moving much faster than the United States in opening up diplomatically to the North.
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"There's other things they can do diplomatically and economically to send a clear signal that they, as well as the United States and other countries in the world, do not tolerate this expansion of nuclear technology and missiles," Branstad said at his confirmation hearing.
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Trump added that "we'd love to solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult," telling Reuters that he and his administration are seeking a peaceful resolution to the North Korea question, in part by preparing a slew of fresh economic sanctions while not ruling out a military solution.
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"There is no daylight between the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan on the need to continue to isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically until they abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile program," Pence told reporters during the return flight to the United States.
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IAN BREMMER, PRESIDENT, EURASIA GROUP: There&aposs no question that Trump&aposs willingness to push hard in the same way that it got the Chinese to toughen up sanctions against the North Koreans facilitating the eventual engagement diplomatically, could well play in his favor here with NATO.
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But in a call with the security alliance's secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg (who diplomatically thanked him for having raised the issue of inadequate European defence spending), Mr Trump spoke of NATO's "enduring importance" and discussed how the alliance was adapting to new threats, in particular, countering terrorism.
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"They try to isolate diplomatically, they try to strangulate economically, they're trying to strangulate our water resources – and water automatically will have an impact on your economy, your agriculture and your irrigation," Muzammil Hussain, chairman of the Pakistani government's Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), told Reuters.
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While Graham can't always persuade Trump to act the way he wants militarily and diplomatically, his now reliable political support for Trump -- through the many scandals and mini-scandals that unfold weekly -- allows Graham to be at the President's side as Trump is weighing key decisions.
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"We want to make sure that we create the conditions where if we deliver that, if the two leaders get together, that we can make substantial progress," he said, while adding that Washington was working diplomatically with Russia, China and others to ensure sanctions are enforced.
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"I know Italians are very hospitable people and try to do everything to put their guests at ease, and I thank them for this," he said diplomatically Some Italian critics, while not attacking Mr. Rouhani personally, accused the government of putting economic interests ahead of cultural legacy.
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Drills such as Tuesday's show Taiwan's determination to become an important player, said Ian Storey, a South China Sea scholar at Singapore's ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, adding that Taiwan officials and experts had told him of frustration at being diplomatically marginalized in the South China Sea.
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"This show was an amazing way to get the message across to bullies that they need to stop doing what they are doing, it really did a good job of showing how impactful words and actions can be to other human beings," Jackson, 19, writes diplomatically.
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"We should throw their ambassador the hell out of the United States of America ... This kind of thing cannot go unresponded to diplomatically," McCain, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told MSNBC in an interview on Thursday, adding that legal action could also be pursued.
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Amid increasing tensions around North Korea in the last several weeks, President Donald Trump wants to pressure North Korea economically and diplomatically to end the nuclear threat, but the U.S. is "prepared to defend" itself and its allies, top Trump administration officials said Wednesday in a statement.
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"The continued provocations by the rogue regime in North Korea are unacceptable, and the United States of America is going to continue to marshal the support of nations across the region and across the world to further isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically," Pence told reporters.
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She's a warm conversationalist but also a moody one, suspicious of cant, with an almost self-destructive refusal to defer to the diplomatically empty idioms of the media-trained television executive—she'd rather tell a story that makes her look bad, if it's true or funny.
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"A lot of the basic premises of an open, globalist, diplomatically oriented world are just no longer the operating principles, and we don't know what the new operating principles are," said Prabjhot Singh, who directs the Arnold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine.
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" Defense Secretary James Mattis has consistently maintained that he prefers to resolve issues diplomatically but on Saturday, said Washington "does not accept a nuclear North Korea" and said "any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response, effective and overwhelming.
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What I was hoping for was that Trump would recede a bit into the background and that he would empower his staff — particularly [Mike] Pompeo, [John] Bolton, and [James] Mattis — to roll up their sleeves and see if they could accomplish something diplomatically with the Russians.
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On the eight-day flurry of a trip in late September, the duchess appeared in a mix of high- and low-cost British brands, diplomatically sprinkling in a few Canadian choices, plus looks from Carolina Herrera (Venezuelan-American), See by Chloé (French) and Dolce & Gabbana (Italian).
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"It's not a secret that there are sectors that need an enemy, and perhaps now they are finding a way to return to the past," said Mr. Cárdenas, whose blog, La Joven Cuba, gave voice to a generation loyal to, but diplomatically critical of, the Castro government.
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Mr. Clapper and Admiral Rogers said, somewhat diplomatically, at a Senate hearing on Thursday that while they welcomed skepticism, they believed that questioning the motives of the intelligence officials working on the issue was damaging to morale and to the agencies' ability to retain top talent.
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A case in point is China's ongoing campaign to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, and attempt to control its media and to get the United States to erode its commitment to the island's defense, while simultaneously engaging in constant cyberattacks and exercising more coercive military power around Taiwan.
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Some assume that a nationalist U.S. president — hell-bent on insulting Mexico and one who repeatedly has ambushed Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto as they have sought to engage diplomatically — will cause Mexicans to vote for a nationalist and populist president of their own as a foil.
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"There is no daylight between the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan on the need to continue to isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically until they abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile program," Pence told reporters on his flight back to the United States.
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He or she will need to be able to work diplomatically — but firmly — with international colleagues to ensure the unique nature of the American economy is recognized in international decisions regarding financial institutions and that related U.S. regulations do not place U.S. financial companies at a competitive disadvantage.
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While Pakistan last week was drawing the world's attention to the ongoing protests in Indian-administered Kashmir that have claimed more than 80 lives, India has been trying to isolate Pakistan diplomatically at the ongoing United Nations General Assembly by painting it as a rogue state sponsoring terror.
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They amended the bill to give greater authority to the executive branch to resolve disputes diplomatically, to create a dedicated exception to foreign sovereign immunity for terrorism on U.S. soil, and to make it absolutely clear that no nation has the discretionary right to support terrorism or terror groups.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week that the US will attempt to resolve tensions with North Korea diplomatically "until the first bomb drops," though Trump's ongoing tweets about how diplomacy with the "Little Rocket Man" is a waste of time doesn't exactly back up Tillerson's sentiment.
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While China has been getting more involved diplomatically in trouble spots such as the Middle East, it is adamant that it does not interfere in the affairs of other countries, and is the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council which has not taken military action in Syria.
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NANAIMO, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that his government is engaging diplomatically with Saudi Arabia, but did not back down on his concerns about human rights, two weeks into a spat over Ottawa's calls for the release of Saudi activists from detention.
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Its plan is to further isolate the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un diplomatically and cut off its access to the international financial system in the hopes that it will eventually put its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles on the negotiating table in exchange for sanctions relief.
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"What was supposed to be a diplomatically complex issue that would have involved US and European military power suddenly got as simple as sending in tanks and units unopposed throughout the eastern third of Syria," said the official, who did not have permission to speak to the media.
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And the United States, though happy to support the Kurds militarily when it needs them, has kept them at arm's length diplomatically in deference to its Turkish allies, even as Turkey has labeled Syrian Kurds "terrorists" and unleashed unprovoked attacks on forces trying to focus on the Islamic State.
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Dennis Jones, a retired N.T.S.B. investigator with a long career of international experience, suggested to me diplomatically that Annex 13 is a typical United Nations construct that does not necessarily accommodate national and political variations in intent to get at the truth no matter where it may lie.
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"There is no daylight between the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan on the need to continue to isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically until they abandon their nuclear ballistic missile program," Pence said, adding that he was "encouraged" by his talks with the South Korean President.
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Jackie, a high school junior who is poised beyond her years but who described herself as so shy that she had only one close friend, diplomatically insisted that she can "100 percent" support her sister's fight for legal rights and sing for Mr. Trump at the same time.
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"We would consider an ADIZ...over portions of the South China Sea as a provocative and destabilizing act which would automatically raise tensions and call into serious question China's commitment to diplomatically manage the territorial disputes of the South China Sea," Kerry said during a visit to Mongolia.
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Some Republicans had said they'd be open to vetting both Moore and Cain further as part of the confirmation process, and making a decision after more steps had been taken, one way to diplomatically dodge the question of where they actually stand on the latest of Trump's controversial nominees.
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"If the president undercuts what he is trying to achieve diplomatically, convinces people that whatever you agree to with the secretary of state will be overturned by the president ... then he is basically neutered," said Richard Boucher, a former top U.S. diplomat who now teaches at Brown University.
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The experts I've spoken to all agree Moon will likely continue trying to play the mediator, keeping North Korea diplomatically engaged while soothing the US. On Saturday, Moon held an impromptu summit with Kim and on Monday noted that more inter-Korean summits could occur in the future.
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And President Obama has explicitly said the United States would prefer Britain to remain inside the European Union — not only because it makes the European Union stronger diplomatically, economically and politically, but also because it gives Washington a stronger allied voice in vital European decision-making on trade and security.
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Beijing has also tried to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, and if tensions spike China could pressure "other countries upon which Taiwan's export-heavy economy relies for its survival into dropping their ties with Taiwan," said J. Michael Cole, Taipei-based fellow with the China Policy Institute of the University of Nottingham.
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"As far as developments in Syria are concerned, the market has had a sigh of relief in the sense that there is no escalation, either diplomatically, or on the ground, following the intervention by the U.S., France and the UK," said BNP Paribas global head of commodity market strategy Harry Tchilinguirian.
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Mr Tillerson told China that it can help America do more "the easy way or the hard way", with the hard way meaning secondary sanctions on Chinese entities that trade with North Korea, and credible threats that Mr Trump is "serious about the military option if we cannot resolve this diplomatically".
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If Iran is smart enough, and the pact's other signatories diplomatically adroit enough, Iran could now play not the injured party, but choose a smarter path that will deeply wound the US whilst pulling the world back from the brink of a nuclear Armageddon toward which Trump has hurled us.
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Obama, who is increasingly taking aim at the Republican presidential front-runner, warned that Trump's threat to block money transfers across the border in order to force Mexico's hand is a "half-baked" strategy — designed primarily to energize conservative voters — that would prove logistically impossible, diplomatically harmful and economically ruinous.
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When it comes to dealing with regional threats, Israel's government needs the flexibility to do what is necessary; this is especially important at a time when the Trump administration backs Israel rhetorically and diplomatically but has left it largely on its own when it comes to countering the Iranians in Syria.
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Y.) characterized Trump's decision to abandon the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which the president announced earlier in the day during a speech delivered at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Indianapolis, as "a politically-motivated appeasement" of the powerful gun lobbyist group that will haunt the United States diplomatically.
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But now Japan, which has hewed closely to the hard-line American posture toward North Korea, is scrambling to remain diplomatically relevant as Mr. Trump moderates his tone in preparation for a possible meeting with the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, and South Korea takes the lead in brokering talks.
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She has had to diplomatically lower expectations on the country's sustainable energy transition during meetings at the United Nations in September, navigate the erosion of public trust in elected officials at home after a bribery scandal involving a former minister of labor, and address the sustainability of the country's economic growth.
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"Diplomatically and militarily, Moscow plays both arsonist and firefighter: fueling tensions among all parties in Syria, the Syrian regime, Iran, Turkey, the Syrian Democratic Forces, the United States and other coalition partners, then serving as arbiter to resolve the disputes, attempting to undermine and weaken each party's bargaining positions," Gen.
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In her email to another transition official hours before the first phone call, Ms. McFarland described President Barack Obama's decision to expel 35 Russian diplomats as a last-minute attempt to discredit Mr. Trump's victory, box him in diplomatically and provoke him into a potentially politically damaging statement in Russia's defense.
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"I think there's other things they can do diplomatically and economically to send a clear signal that they, as well as the United States and other countries in the world, do not tolerate this expansion of nuclear technology and missiles," Iowa's Republican governor, Terry Branstad, said at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing.
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His father's heavy performance schedule – something like two films and four albums a year through the 1950s and '60s – meant that the pair didn't have a close relationship during Jr.'s early life: "He was a good father as much as it was within his power," he told The Guardian diplomatically in 20133.
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World leaders explored the possibility of establishing an international criminal court after War World I. But it became diplomatically feasible only when the Cold War ended and the United Nations saw the need to establish special tribunals to bring to justice the perpetrators of atrocities in the Balkans and Rwanda during the 1990s.
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After all, they point out: For reasons ranging from sovereignty to pride, Iran is unlikely to sit down for such far-reaching talks; the Trump administration has done little of substance to engage Iran diplomatically; and the president has badly damaged relations with some staunch U.S. allies, making a multilateral effort harder.
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As part of its campaign to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, China has blocked it from participating in international bodies like the World Health Organization — a fact that has also angered Taiwanese people this week, as they try to prepare along with the rest of the world for the possibility of a worsening epidemic.
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"We will be working with the international community to address this, we're doing so right now, we're working through the United Nations, we're working with our allies, and we're working diplomatically including with those that we might be able to enlist in this effort to get North Korea under control," he said.
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" At that point, the former New Mexico governor apparently remembered which Aleppo they were talking about and launched into his presidential plan for handling Syria, saying that the country is "a mess" and "the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end.
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"There was a lot of blowback that the U.S. got, generally, diplomatically across the range of diplomatic concerns, and I have no doubt that it would be very significant if the U.S. were to do that with regard to Paris, probably much, much more significant than what happened before," Stern said, according to BBC News.
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"A country like North Korea — a small and weak country diplomatically isolated and economically devastated and a country surrounded by big powers — may feel very insecure, even though its neighboring countries have no intention to attack them," said Yoon Young-kwan, a former South Korean foreign minister and professor emeritus at Seoul National University.
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ROME — Less than two weeks before a potentially tense and diplomatically delicate meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, President Trump has apparently settled on nominating Callista Gingrich, the wife of Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, as the United States ambassador to the Holy See, according to two people close to the president.
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And, as I said, President Trump hopes for a peaceful transition of power and we are going to continue to engage nations around the world diplomatically and we are going to continue to use the levers of this economy and economic sanctions -- until Nicolas Maduro goes and Juan Guaido is established as the President of Venezuela.
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"This settlement's location deep in the West Bank, far closer to Jordan than Israel, would link a string of outposts that effectively divide the West Bank and make the possibility of a viable Palestinian state more remote," Toner said in the statement, which used diplomatically extreme language saying United States officials "strongly condemn" the Israel move.
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In light of the Israeli claims and the impending May 12 deadline, Congressional committees should press adviser Bolton and Secretary Pompeo on the specific sections of the Iran deal that evidence supports are being violated by Iran and to seek assurances on U.S. actions to continue diplomatically to address these as provided in the JCPOA itself.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India responded to the attacks by authorizing retaliatory strikes against Pakistan and has tried to isolate the country diplomatically, pulling out of a regional economic conference and using a summit meeting in New Delhi that included the Russian, Chinese and Brazilian heads of state last weekend as a platform to attack the Pakistani government.
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In a press release at the time, O'Brien chose his words diplomatically while making clear that the band wanted to inject their gajillion-selling debut with more punk spirit: "The band loved the original mix of Ten, but were also interested in what it would sound like if I were to deconstruct and remix it," he said.
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And Thursday's vote threw into plain view just how much the United States needs to get involved — diplomatically — to bring an end to the conflict in a way that doesn't just result in cementing the status quo and leave the Syrian regime with the territory it has won, plus the terrain the US backed forces have gained.
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"Diplomatically and militarily, Moscow plays both arsonist and firefighter: fueling tensions among all parties in Syria, the Syrian regime, Iran, Turkey, the Syrian Democratic Forces, the United States and other coalition partners, then serving as arbiter to resolve the disputes, attempting to undermine and weaken each party's bargaining positions," Votel told a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee.
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DAVID CAMERON is in Brussels for the endgame of his great "renegotiation" of Britain's membership of the EU. For over three years this deadline has loomed over the prime minister--never less so than in the frenetic, final weeks, during which Mr Cameron has concentrated on little else, shuttling round the continent pressing the flesh and testing the limits of the diplomatically achievable.
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The call between Trump and Tsai was the first between a U.S. president or president-elect with any Taiwan leader since 1979, when diplomatic relations were broken off in accordance the one-China policy, which in effect forces countries to either recognize diplomatically the People's Republic of China, on the mainland, or the Republic of China, on Taiwan, but not both.
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