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...State Robert Zoellick. "What was good for the U.S. or the West was bad for China, and vice versa." Those days are gone. Wang Jisi of Beijing University, one of China's top foreign policy scholars, says one of the most important developments of 2006 was that the communiqué issued after a key conference on foreign affairs for top officials had no reference to the tired old terms that have been standard in China's diplomatic vocabulary...
...faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will be in charge of a gathering to which, by any objective measure, he should not have been invited. Even now a small army of diplomats is buttoning up the communiqués that will record a bland consensus on three topics Putin has chosen for the first G-8 Russia has ever hosted: energy security - which Moscow itself made controversial in January by cutting off gas supplies to Ukraine after raising the price of the commodity...
...Table. The guys do happen to lead the world's richest countries, but any really interesting exchanges at their annual get-togethers tend to get saved for their memoirs. Instead, we are treated to a ritual photo of the leaders in funny shirts to dress up a turgid communiqué, disgorged at a press center far, far from the action. But this year's meeting, at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland at the start of July, feels different. Alongside the tired ritual, there's some real politics going on. It's not just the politics of protest, for which...
...what happens to Taiwan is nobody's business but its own-had never publicly linked itself to U.S. policy on the Strait. Indeed, the last such security statement, issued by Japanese and U.S. officials in 2002, didn't mention Taiwan at all. To add zest to the controversy, the communiqué came at the end of a week when China had already been annoyed by American musings on Taiwan. In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, Director of the CIA had said-in another display of the blindingly obvious-that "Beijing's military modernization and military buildup...
...Behind the fuss lies a bigger point. In the communiqué, Asians could see harbingers of their future. It has become conventional wisdom to assert that the inexorable rise of China means that it will soon become Asia's preeminent power. Inconveniently for this thesis, Japan remains-and will remain for some time to 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...