Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your sorrys in a sack, mister. Beijing wasn?t exactly mollified by a senior U.S. diplomat?s explanation and apology for the Belgrade embassy bombing. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering?s account of how the "tragic mistake" occurred was dismissed Thursday by China?s Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan as "unconvincing and unacceptable." He demanded that Washington come up with something more than the out-of-date-map explanation, and "severely punish" the individuals responsible before Beijing would consider resuming military and trade talks with...
...objective is a lot more than securing more favorable terms for entry into the World Trade Organization," says Dowell. "It wants the U.S. to acknowledge China?s importance on the international stage, particularly in the Asian region." And that?ll take more than a slide lecture by a U.S. diplomat on the foibles of Washington?s strategic mapmakers...
...bequeathed by apartheid, imbalances that have resulted in growing unemployment and burgeoning violence. Mandela is almost certain to be replaced as president by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, 56, who has effectively run the government since being anointed by Mandela as his successor two years ago. Although the former ANC diplomat?s competence is unimpeachable, the South African media is awash with speculation about whether Mbeki is an Africanist ideologue or a pragmatist, a democrat or an authoritarian. But with media interviews extremely rare and leaks from his inner circle unheard of, almost everything written about Mbeki is entirely speculative. Suffice...
...NATO continues to shrink from any change in its carefully calibrated "Goldilocks" air campaign--not too hard, not too soft. The chief culprits appeared to reside in Washington, where "there are people in the military who are putting the brakes on," says a U.S. diplomat...
...partnership" between the U.S. and China. Less than a year ago, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang Zemin stood side by side in Beijing cordially airing their differences in a joint press conference. Last week Jiang refused to take Clinton's phone calls. "Without question," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington, "this marks the low point in relations since 1972," the year Richard Nixon visited China. When Madeleine Albright went to the Chinese embassy in Washington to offer her apologies, Ambassador Li kept her waiting in an anteroom for 20 minutes, then pointedly told her he had been busy...