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...love fest. Washington was taken aback this month when a Schröder speech stated that NATO "is no longer the primary venue" for discussing transatlantic issues. TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles P. Wallace talked to Schröder about the uneasy alliance Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was just in Berlin, and there were many smiles. Relations between the U.S. and Germany seem to have improved. But there's still Iraq. Has anything really changed? You must not underestimate the importance of the atmosphere, and that's certainly improved. We both agree that in Iraq it's important that...
...another thing: the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan if it is attacked without provocation. Put all that together, and you've got a spot that is definitively hot. Yet when news broke last week that the draft of a communiqué by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, together with their Japanese counterparts, mildly identified "peaceful resolution of issues concerning the Taiwan Strait" as a "common strategic objective" of the U.S. and Japan, the news rolled round Asia like a thunderclap coming out of a clear blue...
...That question was in the air last week during a furious round of diplomacy set off by the North's Feb. 10 declaration that it has joined the exclusive club of nuclear nations. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned her counterpart in Beijing, Li Zhaoxing, then hosted foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan. The U.S.'s new point man on the now stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear arms?ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill?flew to Beijing, where he met with a group of senior Chinese officials, including Wang Jiarui, China...
...getting its negotiating partners on the same page when it comes to North Korea is the diplomatic equivalent of herding cats. The Bush Administration, in fact, is having a hard time getting its own message about North Korea straight. Immediately after the North said publicly it had nuclear weapons, Rice said, in effect, we already knew that. But at his confirmation hearing last week, Rice's new deputy, Robert Zoellick, suggested it was possible the North was just bluffing. At the same time, outgoing U.S. ambassador to Tokyo Howard Baker told reporters that the North was a "deadly threat," particularly...
Reasonable people can have different beliefs about the most desirable attributes of a university president. After all, many of our competitor institutions make do with presidents who understand that their comments must be blander than my four-month-old child’s rice cereal. Controversy can create difficulties, and if avoiding controversy is more important than intellectual discourse, then the University would be better served by a genial figurehead than by a scholar-president...