{"id":34007,"date":"2018-05-07T06:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T11:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34007"},"modified":"2018-05-07T06:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T11:24:43","slug":"as-us-military-effectiveness-and-diplomatic-efforts-fade-into-irrelevance-many-countries-start-ignoring-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34007","title":{"rendered":"As US Military Effectiveness and Diplomatic Efforts Fade into Irrelevance Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As US Military Effectiveness and Diplomatic Efforts Fade into Irrelevance Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Diplomatic work continues in some of the areas with the highest geopolitical tensions in the world.\u00a0In recent days there have been high-level meetings and contacts between Turkey, Iran and Russia over the situation in Syria; meetings between Modi and Xi Jinping to ease tensions between India and China; and finally, the historic meeting between Moon\u00a0Jae-in and Kim Jong-un.\u00a0The common component in all these meetings is the absence of the United States, which may explain the excellent progress that has been seen.<\/em><\/p>\n

The last seven days have brought a note of optimism to international relations. The meeting between Modi and Xi Jinping in China offered a regional example, confirmed by the\u00a0words<\/a>\u00a0of Wang Yi, member of the State Counsel of the People’s Republic of China:<\/p>\n

“Our [India and China] common interests outweigh our differences.\u00a0The summit will go a long way towards deepening the mutual trust between the two great neighbors.\u00a0We will make sure that the informal summit will be a complete success and a new milestone in the history of China-India relations”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Given the tensions in August 2017 in the Himalayan border area between the two countries, the progress achieved in the last nine months bodes well for a further increase in cooperation between the two nations. Bilateral trade stands at around $85 billion a year, with China as India\u2019s largest trading partner. The meeting between Modi and Xi also serves to deepen the already existing framework between the two countries in international organizations like BRICS, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in which they are integral participants. It is imaginable that negotiations on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will be in full swing, with Beijing keen to involve New Delhi more in the project.<\/p>\n

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As US Military Effectiveness and Diplomatic Efforts Fade into Irrelevance Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington Diplomatic work continues in some of the areas with the highest geopolitical tensions in the world.\u00a0In recent days there have been high-level meetings and contacts between Turkey, Iran and Russia over the situation in Syria; meetings between Modi and Xi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,5572,14453,525,694,8203,776,844,865],"class_list":["post-34007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-federico-pieraccini","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-syria","tag-us-military","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34008,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007\/revisions\/34008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}