Word: outflanks
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...that respect, Abbas may simply be looking to outflank Olmert by denying Israel the space to claim there is no Palestinian negotiating partner. But Olmert can comfortably agree to talk to Abbas, insisting that the Palestinian leader first implement his obligations under President Bush's "roadmap," which requires that the Palestinians dismantle the armed factions before any talk of borders can begin. It's a relatively safe bet that four to six months from now, Olmert will tell Bush that he gave it his best shot, but just couldn't make any progress with Abbas. At that point, when Olmert...
...Sharon is not responding to opinion polls; he's maneuvering to outflank his rivals. Benjamin Netanyahu continues to hover menacingly, ready to resume the mantle of Likud party leadership from Sharon as soon as the party holds a primary. So simply maintaining the present impasse almost certainly seals Sharon's fate at the hands of his own party faithful. Also, his restless foreign minister Shimon Peres - the Oslo architect increasingly desperate to restore political dialogue with the Palestinians - has been running his own talks with Ahmed Qurei in pursuit of a new peace formula...
...mutual self-interest that brought Washington and Beijing together back in 1972. The Nixon administration engaged with China not because it believed this would make China a more open society or economy, but because it would outflank their mutual enemy in Moscow. Later, as the crypto-capitalist Deng Xiaoping replaced Mao Zedong and began opening China's markets to the West, the relationship morphed from an alliance of convenience against a mutual foe into a partnership based on trade and investment...
Putin's second swing through Europe in as many weeks, for example, forms part of an effort to outflank Washington in the showdown over missile defense. Where Boris Yeltsin may have contented himself to growl and grumble over a U.S. military initiative deemed inimical to Russian interests, Putin is fighting back vigorously and raising a few eyebrows in Washington. Indeed, he's managed to turn some key European NATO members against Washington's proposed National Missile Defense system by convincing them it could spark a dangerous new arms race; now he plans to head for North Korea next month, partly...
...More important, the Pentagon will argue, the system mooted by Putin can't be built quickly enough - it would take 10 years rather than the five envisaged by Washington to cope with the emergence of a potential North Korean threat." Then again, Putin's primary objective may be to outflank Washington's efforts to build an umbrella system Russia fears may eventually neutralize its own nuclear deterrent, thereby destabilizing the nuclear balance - a prospect that has Western Europe scared that Washington's plan could reignite the arms race. "It's a Russian tradition in arms control politics to do whatever...