diplomacy
Who Was Manjiro, the Shipwrecked Teenager Who Helped End Japan’s Isolationist Era? | History
Francine Uenuma History Correspondent When 14-year-old Manjiro set off on a fishing excursion on January 5, 1841, he and his four companions packed only light provisions—rice, fresh water and firewood—in their small boat, expecting to return home to southern Japan in a few days. Manjiro’s widowed mother, Shiho, relied on him to help support the …
Pope’s Ukraine diplomacy a political and spiritual tightrope
VATICAN CITY (AP) — His appeals for an Orthodox Easter truce in Ukraine went unheeded. His planned meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church was canceled. A proposed visit to Moscow? Nyet. Even his attempt to showcase Russian-Ukrainian friendship fell flat. Pope Francis hasn’t made much of a diplomatic mark in Russia’s war …
Biden Cites His Team’s Quiet Diplomacy In Cease-Fire Plan Between Israel And Hamas : NPR
President Biden delivers remarks Thursday after news of a cease-fire plan between Israel and Hamas militants emerged. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images President Biden delivers remarks Thursday after news of a cease-fire plan between Israel and Hamas militants emerged. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Speaking at …
‘Breaking the silence’: Asian American leaders in St. Louis fight uptick in bigotry | Metro
After 27 years growing up in the U.S., Liz Lenivy this week said she felt fear for her family’s safety. “Up until last year I have never truly felt unsafe living in the United States,” said Lenivy, an attorney who came to the U.S. at age 3 from Korea, with her mother. Four of the women …
ITRI and Czech Republic Embark on New Chapter in Technology Diplomacy
Photo 1 ITRI President Edwin Liu (right) and Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil (left) pose at a welcome ceremony at ITRI in Hsinchu. Photo 2 Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil is impressed by ITRI’s iPMx Molecular Rapid Test System for COVID-19 virus detection. HSINCHU, Taiwan, Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — An 89-memebr Czech delegation …
Breaking the logjam on the northern border – columns
A clearly defined, accurately depicted and accepted boundary is essential for exercising sovereignty within the nation state, and the process starts with mutually accepted broad contours of where the boundary should lie followed by a political agreement to refine and define it. The boundary is then subjected to delineation, which essentially implies drawing on the …
A Make-or-Break Test for American Diplomacy
The second was the trap of bumper stickers—the doomed search for a neat framework to replace the Cold War’s strategy of “containment,” which for decades had provided intellectual clarity and mobilized popular support. A strategy premised on “enlargement” of the coalition and ideas that had won the Cold War was enticing, although as one commentator …
Grieving Parents ‘Ambushed’ by Trump, Who Had Teen’s Killer Waiting at White House
You can almost imagine the reality-show excitement that surely went into the ill-considered plan to introduce Anne Sacoolas, the American diplomatic wife who killed 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn when she drove down the wrong side of an English lane in August, to Dunn’s grieving parents. Sacoolas left the U.K. in early September under diplomatic-immunity protections …
Trump heads to UN with long list of deals he’s yet to close
US President Donald Trump gestures to supporters as he arrives for a campaign rally in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, on September 16, 2019. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump, a self-described deal-maker, is saddled with a long list of unresolved foreign policy deals he has yet to close heading into his …
Iran ‘will never talk to America,’ supreme leader says as UNGA begins
Iran will never hold talks with America, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on state television Tuesday morning, effectively killing chances for a rapprochement some had anticipated between leaders of both countries during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings taking place this week and next. “Iranian officials will never talk to America …
