Herein lies the crucial imbalance. Trade links will benefit them both so America is the only player at the table with any significant further demands. The stakes at the diplomatic casino are already inherently skewed.
The so-called war of words involving North Korea, South Korea and the United States, raises an important question for our time: how do we define violence? Many people have pointed to the threat of violent conflict, but I believe that it has already taken place. In Buddhism, violence is thought of not just as physical action, but in terms of our thoughts and words as well.
British music, art, and culture in general has reached every corner of the world and this does create a favourable impression of the nation - useful for business and politics in addition to just feeling a bit more welcomed when visiting a new place as a tourist.
The world of higher education is converging on a common cause. The impact of rapid technological advancement and globalisation has expedited a process of sharing knowledge and breaking down barriers internationally across the sector.
Obama's well-honed brand of soft diplomatic intervention is now waning in relevance as the tone and timbre of foreign affairs shifts to a harsher, monotone, money-driven form of Realpolitik, or "Realeconomik", that is driving geopolitics.
The Foreign Office is working with the Libyan government in response to a "potential threat" against the British Embassy in Tripoli. Travel advice ...
From Las Vegas to Camp Bastion, Harry's headlines - both good and bad - build a modern heroic monomyth around him. He may be a professional soldier - but am I alone in preferring to read about his rock 'n' roll hedonism rather than this latest "I killed in Afghanistan" meme?
It was fleetingly mentioned by some as a sort of chronological coincidence, but the 81st anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Northeast China, the incipit of the Second Sino-Japanese War, your average curiosity is not. The wounds of that war are still wide open and its unresolved legacy continues to cast a long shadow over the troubled relations between China and Japan, whose recent Diaoyu Islands dispute has come under the international spotlight.
Britain and Canada will establish joint diplomatic missions and share embassy offices abroad, Foreign Secretary William Hague is set to announce on Mo...
Foreign Secretary William Hague has held talks with Ecuador's vice president Lenin Moreno as the deadlock over the status of WikiLeaks founder Julian ...
Given Ecuador's hyperbole, you might think that British gunboats were sailing even now towards Guayaquil. But, the diplomatic note that our man in Quito left with the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry earlier this week was a model of moderation.
A storm of diplomatic sound and fury has broken over Ecuador's decision to grant political asylum to Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. The UK government has threatened to breach all diplomatic protocol and international law and go into the embassy to arrest Assange.
I acknowledge you would like it here in Rio, and encourage you to establish a plan to arriving here in the future! Such lovely weather, lush green mountains and blue seas. So glad to be here reaffirming the stresses all these things are under. Even more glad to be acknowledging the need to begin to save them sometime in the future.
London 2012 organisers have sparked a diplomatic row after refusing a gift from the Greek government - because of health and safety. Locogs has dec...
Western diplomats are appalled that the deadline for the withdrawal of Syrian government forces from towns has come and gone without any change in the situation on the ground.
British diplomats have been withdrawn from Syria for "security reasons", William Hague said on Thursday. The foreign secretary tweeted: "I have inf...
On Friday we'll be treated to the unlikely sight of many of the cabinet’s big hitters setting off to Paris for meetings with their French counterpar...
Britain has dismissed claims that it was "militarising" the Falklands dispute by deploying nuclear weapons nearby. Argentina said it had intelligen...
World leaders, then, have continued to characterise Iran as a threat or a menace intent on some kind of destruction.
The recent EU oil embargo against Iran follows the news that Britain, America and France are sending warships through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran had threatened to close in response to growing sanctions.
The British embassy in Tehran has been stormed by dozens Iranian students chanting "death to England" and calling for the building to be taken over. ...
Britain's diplomatic relations with Iran are set to grow increasingly frosty after the Iranian parliament voted to downgrade relations, which could ...
Against all previous form, I took part in a round of the X Factor this week. It was the familiar mix of competing styles and contingent emotion, followed by measures of first kind then merciless appraisal. My group didn't win: our blend of British "existential angst" with bold Brazilian overtones lost out and we were sent home.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has confirmed that the UK has re-established a diplomatic mission in Libya. The team, which will be led by the Brit...
Former media partners condemn WikiLeaks' decision to make public documents identifying activists and whistleblowers...
