Word: communique
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There will be virtually no debate on these issues at the Bonn summit, which is largely ceremonial. Each head of state will have about twelve minutes to present a speech before the four-hour meeting recesses. The final communiqué, which may be split into two sections to accommodate France's reluctance to agree to any military statement, is being worked out in advance...
Anyone who has closely observed the course of [the allies'] summit diplomacy and its results, however, cannot help noticing that the scale of the harmonious final communiqués is out of all proportion to the actual results or even to the atmosphere of the talks. The economic summits of recent years have shown that growing domestic difficulties have made these meetings more and more a forum for mutual recriminations in which various governments try to shift their responsibility for national aberrations onto others. Hence it is to be feared that European governments will succumb to the temptation...
...decade, Sino-American relations have been defined by the Shanghai Communiqué signed during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to Peking in 1972. In that document, the U.S. agreed that mainland China and the island republic of Taiwan, which is governed by the Nationalist Party that fled the mainland after its defeat by the Communists in 1949, constitute "one China." Implicit was the understanding that the U.S., while not severing its ties to Taiwan altogether, would scale them down progressively. In that spirit, the Carter Administration in 1979 closed the U.S. embassy in Taipei and established full diplomatic...
...Chinese accuse Washington of sustaining the old "two Chinas" policy that plainly is incompatible with the provisions of the Shanghai Communiqué. Peking has threatened to downgrade relations with the U.S. if the Administration continues to give military support to Taiwan. Such a step would be a severe foreign policy defeat for the Administration...
...several passionate kisses. That is why some bystanders witnessing the war of the Falklands find themselves almost charmed by its stately pace, its long preliminaries-the fleet steaming off from England as the Prime Minister quotes Queen Victoria; the weeks at sea as the foreign offices indulge in truculent communiqués and atavistic displays of national plumage. (The long interval between the patriotic eruption and the moment of actual contact also opens up room for negotiation.) A world apocalyptically armed has absorbed the notion that there will not be much safe territory in wars of the future...