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After more than 40 years, serving under every President since Kennedy in such trouble spots as Vietnam, Honduras and Iraq, U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte, 65, is the consummate diplomat--discreet, deliberate and always careful choosing his words, whether in English, French, Greek, Spanish or Vietnamese. So a day after President Bush nominated him to be the nation's first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Negroponte's brief exchange at a breakfast with the ambassadors representing the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council was telling. Asked by a diplomat whether he should "congratulate you or offer condolences...
...come-the richest, most technologically advanced nation in the region. Given the heavy baggage that their relationship carries-with memories of wars, invasions and atrocities-there is intense interest in how the two giants will deal with each other. Howard Baker, who has just retired as the U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, made the point in remarks to journalists last week. "Japan is a superpower, China is on its way to being a superpower," said Baker. "They are both rich, they both have a history and tradition in this region, and they don't much like each other, I think...
...club of nuclear nations. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned her counterpart in Beijing, Li Zhaoxing, then hosted foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan. The U.S.'s new point man on the now stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear arms?ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill?flew to Beijing, where he met with a group of senior Chinese officials, including Wang Jiarui, China's top North Korea handler, who traveled to Pyongyang for talks on Saturday...
...North Korea straight. Immediately after the North said publicly it had nuclear weapons, Rice said, in effect, we already knew that. But at his confirmation hearing last week, Rice's new deputy, Robert Zoellick, suggested it was possible the North was just bluffing. At the same time, outgoing U.S. ambassador to Tokyo Howard Baker told reporters that the North was a "deadly threat," particularly given its record of arms proliferation "to all comers," adding that he didn't see any upside in disbelieving the North's assertion...
...year later, the members of the Pudding made an overture to Sharman Douglas, a celebrity socialite to rival Paris Hilton, the debutante daughter of the American ambassador to Britain, and one of Princess Margaret’s closest...