Diplomacy hinges on economic power: Han
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Just a few months after leaving politics, former Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo wants to be called a scholar rather than a politician or bureaucrat, emphasizing his career as an economics professor for 18 years ...
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. returned to China yesterday for the first in a series of high-level talks aimed at helping the Asian giant bring its economy into the 21st century. But while the formal agenda for Paulson's "strategic economic dialogue" covers such prosaic matters as pensions and health care, lawmakers and interest groups in Washington expect Paulson to show them the money....
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A meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the world&#39;s wealthy nations with Chinese counterparts on Oct. 1 will be a key opportunity to discuss
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A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said here Monday that China attaches great importance to developing its relations with Turkmenistan and will,as always
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A top South Korean official says the normalisation of relations between the United States and North Korea is key to resolving the North&#39;s nuclear standoff.
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Prizing stability above all, Seoul wants Washington to offer more incentives for North Korea's cooperation
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that China's reluctance to let its currency appreciate remained a core bilateral issue but claimed some progress in talks on reducing trade imbalances.
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A U.S. envoy expressed support for China&#039;s proposal to hold informal six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear threat and offered to meet bilaterally with the North on the sidelines of those discussions.
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December 18, 2004 ã¡ KAGOSHIMA, Japan â At a press conference here after a summit meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, President Roh Moo-hyun said that South Korea would not oppose Tokyo taking punitive economic measures against
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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said efforts to persuade China to let its currency rise in value had achieved âsome resultsâ but that Beijingâs leadership needed to do far more.
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A day earlier, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged the two neighours to accelerate studies on establishing a free trade area (FTA). on Wednesday, adding that Beijing was committed to an active
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LONDON - President Roh Moo-hyun said on Thursday the country must be ready to guard against excessive currency moves and that channels for more international cooperation on exchange rates should be kept open.
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Sometimes high diplomacy depends on simple math. Take the North Korean nuclear deal, which was reached in Beijing on Feb. 13. Under a side agreement, the United States promised to resolve within 30 days a Treasury Department case that had frozen North Korean funds at a bank in Macau suspected of...
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South Korea's president-elect pledged on Thursday to put the economy first once he takes office and not to be shy about telling prickly North Korea to mend its ways over nuclear weapons and human rights.
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The new U.S. lead negotiator for six-party talks on North Korean nuclear programs Tuesday stressed diplomacy to defuse the crisis as Seoul pledged the status quo on its policy of engagement with the communist state.
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As the two sides prepare for an economic summit, the focus is on what to do about China's persistent trade surplus
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Gov. Bill Richardson's meeting with two North Korean officials will provide an opportunity for him to play a role he savors as well as showcase a skill in diplomacy that could boost any possible presidential bid.