Word: realpolitik
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...toward Moscow and that it's a signal that Paris is ready to interact with Russia without the usual qualifiers. Gone are Sarkozy's early promises to make a respect of human rights and democracy central to all French foreign relations. Also gone is Sarkozy's former mocking of realpolitik as a political cop-out of cynical diplomats without principles. France is now eager to work with Russia on common security and economic interests - and it doesn't want to hear any sniping or criticism from other countries, s'il vous plaît.(See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy...
...sides that their economic relationship was far too important to allow a little geopolitical competition to get in the way, and that same economic relationship - with an ascendant China now bankrolling much of a trillion-dollar U.S. budget deficit - continues to shape the relationship under Obama. Sure, Obama's realpolitik has seen him refrain from some of the largely symbolic irritants to the U.S.-China relationship that Bush was willing to risk, such as meeting with the Dalai Lama or going to church in Beijing to express solidarity with Chinese Christians, but then, Obama's America is even more financially...