You think that detente is structurally sort of stuck there?
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It's still not clear, however, whether the detente will hold.
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Such moves free western Europeans to contemplate a new detente.
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Since then, amid this uneasy detente, Rojava had been spared.
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The exemptions mark the latest detente in the trade war.
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Yet cooperation on criminal enforcement improved since a 2014 detente.
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Donald Trump, who ended the detente with Cuba, stayed home too.
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KS11 since the two countries announced their detente on Oct. 31.
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But it's far from clear how long the detente will last.
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Trump's war with Fox News' Megyn Kelly recently reached a detente.
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The fiasco led to Beyoncé's publicist calling for a detente on Instagram.
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The detente has raised Cubans' expectations yet their economic reality has worsened.
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The detente made getting all the approvals and sponsorship easier, he said.
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We just hope the warring siblings reach a detente before Christmas break.
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In the process, they divided the two powers and fostered strategic detente.
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At this point, world peace seems more achievable than a Jennings detente.
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The big question for American businesses is whether this detente will hold.
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We now know the detente isn't working out well for either side.
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A display of military might by Pyongyang could threaten that fragile detente.
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And, Gretchen and Jimmy's wedding day detente is certainly less than a fairytale.
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But until then, it's an arms race, and there's no detente in sight.
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Talks between the two to reach a detente ended last month without a deal.
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If the nuclear talks bog down, it could mean curtains for inter-Korean detente.
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Yet few in South Korea and beyond are setting much store by the detente.
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Many Americans have headed there again since detente to soak up its historic atmosphere.
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A detente in the U.S.-China trade war has brought relief to Wall Street.
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The detente was further extended in February, with Trump citing "substantial progress" in talks.
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Raisi has rejected Rouhani's economic record and his pursuit of detente with the West.
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"US-DPRK detente suggests protectionism can remain at "bark" not "bite" stage," argued strategists.
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Expatriates and U.S. officials hoped his election would usher in detente with the West.
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But turning the winter thaw into a longer-term detente will be far more daunting.
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Everyone has reached a detente: pushing and shoving during games, but hugs and handshakes afterward.
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"There's no reason to have a detente, I mean there's not a fight," he said.
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Despite those obstacles, Moscow does have incentives to pursue a modest detente in the relationship.
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The two countries were enjoying a detente, with Roh even visiting Pyongyang for a summit.
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Such a detente between Moscow and Riyadh would have been almost unthinkable in the past.
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Now that they've reached a detente, I asked Hotz if he'd taken the board down.
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However, Trump has rowed back on the detente, tightening the decades-old U.S. trade embargo.
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He also attempted a Henry Kissinger-inspired "detente" with the Soviets to slow their expansion.
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Trump offered comments on Monday that could also be seen as an effort at detente.
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It was that the two candidates were arguing at all, after a years-long detente.
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This official did acknowledge, however, that this detente does leave the US on the margins.
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Why it matters: Bolton's departure removes one of the strongest opponents of detente with Tehran.
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Last year's detente between the two Koreas was seen as a revival of that policy.
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The exercises were delayed and shortened this year in order not to spoil the Olympic detente.
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The row, in turn, has upset a short-lived detente between neighbours at a treacherous time.
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Whatever the merits of the ensuing detente, the tactic has paid off handsomely for the president.
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And thanks to the couple's detente, Pitt "can spend more time with them," said the source.
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In Moscow, Russians hoping Trump will usher in a new era of detente celebrated his inauguration.
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With a rift developing in the party, an anti-abortion group is calling for a detente.
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But thanks to the couple's detente, he "can spend more time with them," says the source.
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Super Mario 64, released 20 years ago today, blew this detente deal out of the water.
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By then, of course, there had been at least a detente in the Bush-Trump hostilities.
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Trump has threatened to put an end to the fragile detente unless Havana makes more concessions.
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Elsewhere, investors chased riskier assets on signs of a detente in the U.S.-China trade war.
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The world's two largest economies are in a 90-day detente to negotiate a trade deal.
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The finding comes as South Korean President Moon Jae-in's administration pursues detente with the North.
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The allies have replaced their annual major exercises with smaller-scale programs following last year's detente.
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The Wall Street Journal first reported the White House's skepticism about reaching a speedy detente with Russia.
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Monday's protests were small but highlighted the mixed reaction to the fragile detente between the two Koreas.
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How far detente can go is unclear: Iran has huge political, military and economic influence in Iraq.
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Supporters of the U.S.-Cuban detente are stepping up their lobbying to influence the Trump administration review.
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Many then saw Iran heading for detente with the West, economic reform, social liberalisation and political pluralism.
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The parties appeared to come to a detente, but how long it will last is anyone's guess.
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Many then saw Iran heading for detente with the West, economic reform, social liberalization and political pluralism.
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He had this weird detente with a few of them, and it clearly wasn't working for him.
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But it has watched with frustration as the vote-meddling allegations killed off hopes of any detente.
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But the debate over the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act has shattered that detente within the industry.
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Still, this poll also raises the interesting possibility of a political detente around the Affordable Care Act.
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Yet even people unhappy with Trump overall are willing to admire his efforts at detente with North Korea.
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But there is excitement in Russia about a possible detente between Washington and Moscow under the Trump administration.
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The popularity of Moon Jae-in, the president, has been buoyed by the recent detente with North Korea.
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Trump will be making good on a campaign promise to partially reverse Obama's policy of detente with Cuba.
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However, his successor Donald Trump has rowed back on the detente, tightening the decades-old U.S. trade embargo.
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Push himself confirmed the new detente in an interview with Dan Adler at Vanity Fair, published last night.
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Refusing to budge until "complete" denuclearization would be the surest way to undermine the current process of detente.
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Priebus hoped to navigate a detente between Ryan and Trump, but no endorsement came out of the meeting.
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And few, if any, expect the Olympics-inspired detente to last after the world's athletes depart the peninsula.
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But the detente has added new impetus and learning the language has won support from the Communist leadership.
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"I am worried that the detente of the last few months could be in serious trouble," Kazianis said.
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TRADE HOPES Elsewhere, investors chased riskier assets on signs of a detente in the U.S.-China trade war.
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Many U.S. business executives see Cuba as a missed opportunity and have stepped up interest since the detente.
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And unless developers blacklist PewDiePie en masse, its decision probably won't shake the detente between streamers and game-makers.
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His approval ratings, buoyed to 83% in May thanks to a detente with North Korea, have sunk to 56%.
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But since Donald Trump became president, this detente between left and right seems to have come to an end.
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The two sides have since initiated a rapid detente, signing a pipeline deal and pledging to upgrade economic relations.
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It also denounced Mr Moon's policy of detente with North Korea, accusing him of being a communist sell-out.
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It remains to be seen if the Trump administration will continue to maintain detente with Cuba, or reverse course.
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Eventually, Sooner fans reached something of a begrudging, grumbling detente with the school's best head coach since Barry Switzer.
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Detente opened the door to cooperation between U.S. and Chinese institutions in fields ranging from forestry to particle physics.
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U.S. companies flocked to Cuba in the wake of the detente former Democratic President Barack Obama agreed in 2014.
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Meanwhile its historic detente with the United States came under threat with the election of Donald Trump as President.
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With the advent of the Republican administration in Washington, a pall has fallen over the two countries' fragile detente.
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U.S. visitors tripled in number in the wake of 2014 detente, emboldened by Obama's easing of the travel ban.
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But Trump has rolled back much of Obama's detente and taken additional measures to punish the economy and government.
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When the 18-month detente came to a close, none of the powers wished to leave—physically or symbolically.
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But Trump's executive order banning travel from to the United States from several Muslim-majority nations shattered that detente.
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Kissinger masterminded detente — an outreach to the Soviet Union aimed at lowering tensions between the two nuclear-armed superpowers.
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"It may not be the smoothest of paths but it will continue," Leahy said of the U.S.-Cuban detente.
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The number marks a sharp rise since 2015, when an international nuclear deal raised hopes of detente with the West.
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That has been heightened by U.S. President Donald Trump partially rolling back the Obama-era detente with the United States.
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South Korea, too, seems likely to try to preserve its detente with the North, even if America reverts to hostility.
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FLEISCHER: I&aposve been a cynic all along on this detente with North Korea because I lived through it before.
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This season, sadly, Jill returned in front of the New York cameras for a heartbreaking detente with former enemy Bethenny.
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Michael Jordan and NBA commissioner Adam Silver got involved, convening a meeting to try to find some sort of detente.
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Trump favors a new era of detente' in which we lessen tensions with Russia and work together to eradicate ISIS.
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The current state of play, per the Post: Trump and Sessions "now seem to be heading toward an uneasy detente."
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What is needed now is confidence building and a detente between the two countries, not new sanctions and new threats.
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Trump has cast a cloud over the detente reached in 2014 between Raul Castro and former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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This will mark the first moment when real detente can happen between the US and this ageing yet unshakeable regime.
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S. summit would be a big step forward for catalyzing detente on the Korean peninsula and building a great future.
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But in Moscow, Russians hoping Trump will usher in a new era of detente with their country celebrated his inauguration.
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AFTER AN apparent detente between America and China in late 2018, trade relations soured again at the start of 2019.
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Bannon, Obamacare Yet the emerging detente between Obama and Trump is fast becoming one of the most intriguing relationships in politics.
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Other dissidents agree repression has worsened but say rolling back the detente, which will hurt ordinary Cubans, is not the solution.
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The two countries were engaged in talks in order to reach a detente, but those ended in May without a deal.
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Perry's new album dropped on midnight, but most of the headlines around the music industry are about the Swift-Spotify detente.
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In Mr Pompeo's retelling a naive president scorned longtime allies, pursued detente with Iran and plunged the Arab world into chaos.
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If so, the detente buys time—America can hardly strike while its South Korean ally tries to revive long-frozen dialogue.
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President-elect Trump, however, appears to be uninterested in detente with Cuba, and has talked about ending some of Obama's reforms.
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Besides driving more tourists to the border, the Olympics detente seems to have lowered tensions on the border, at least temporarily.
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So even if he doesn't know it, the president-elect is actually trying to work out a detente with the Russians.
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A detente between the two titans of global terrorism would cause a serious headache for counter-terrorism officials around the world.
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"I would like to see detente of some kind or understanding," he said of relations between the United States and Russia.
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Nixon developed the policy of detente -- designed to ease tensions with the Soviet Union that produced several major arms control agreements.
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President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to scrap detente between the Cold War foes unless Cuba makes political and other concessions.
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"The North Korea challenge is slowly moving from a fragile detente to a full blown crisis — all over again," Kazianis said.
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Trump has threatened to scrap a still-fragile detente between the two countries unless Cuba makes further political and economic concessions.
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But this was the inevitable result of a nuclear accord that was a narrow transaction, not part of a sweeping detente.
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Its placement in Tier 3 comes as the Trump administration rolls back the detente that occurred under former President Barack Obama.
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In June, Trump ordered tighter travel and commercial restrictions again, disappointing U.S. businesses that had hoped to capitalize on the detente.
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In our own system, we had a lot of detente advocates, Dr. Kissinger and President Nixon were deep believers in detente, somehow working out a balance of power with the Soviet Union, and we discovered that the Chinese were willing to use force and fairly aggressive efforts including sniper rifles being provided and commando raids inside the Soviet Union.
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Macedonian officials have taken to comparing their detente with Greece to the post-war Franco-German reconciliation, conducted through and for Europe.
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Second, whereas Mr Rajoy was a toxic figure in Catalonia, Mr Sánchez, Spain's new prime minister, speaks soothingly of dialogue and detente.
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Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger put reaching detente with the rival superpower ahead of what they saw as grandstanding on human rights.
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Between the lines: Unlike corn, soybeans don't store well, so farmers are risking their livelihoods for an economic detente that isn't guaranteed.
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Since he became president a year ago, Mr Moon has staked much political capital on the pursuit of detente on the peninsula.
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His hardline stance on U.S.-Soviet relations led Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, to denounce him as a "foe of detente".
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The program dates to a period of lingering Cold War animosity, but relations changed dramatically with the detente that Rhodes helped negotiate.
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But it's telling that reaching detente with GOP leaders required Trump to adopt the same tactics Republicans rode to defeat in 2012.
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Aside from that brief detente, Romney has emerged as the GOP's highest-profile Trump critic, especially since the death of former Sen.
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Erdogan has also repaired ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a detente Western officials worry may be used to pressure the West.
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We have warehoused those afflicted with the disease of addiction in a false detente pivoting on out-of-sight-out-of-mind.
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President Donald Trump's victory lap on a temporary detente in the trade war with China might be a little premature — and misleading.
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If a new detente with North Korea comes to be, the President will not likely want it associated with possible election meddling.
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"Rouhani and his detente policy with the world will be weakened if the deal does not survive," another senior Iranian official said.
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Cuba watchers are looking closely for signs of how the fragile U.S. detente with Cuba will fare under the new Trump administration.
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U.S. President Barack Obama is due to visit Cuba this month as ties rapidly warm thaw since a 2014 detente with Washington.
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"Tenían un conductor y a veces iban en el auto y Ghislaine decía: 'Detente, hay que ir por esa chica'", comentó Farmer.
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I meet with a project lead, negotiate a complicated family Thanksgiving detente, and read the protocol for a study I'm working on.
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"Tenían un conductor y a veces iban en el auto y Ghislaine decía: 'Detente, hay que ir por esa chica'", comentó Farmer.
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Its goal was to provide a hawkish counterpoint to the softer detente policy toward the Soviet Union favored by the White House.
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That is Henry Kissinger, the doyen of cold-war diplomacy and the author of rapprochement with China and detente with the Soviet Union.
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U.S.-Cuban relations have nosedived since Trump became president, partially rolling back the detente initiated by Obama and reverting to Cold War rhetoric.
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As part of the wider detente, Iraq and Saudi Arabia announced last month they are setting up a council to upgrade strategic relations.
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The detente with Iran is opposed by all of the Republican candidates vying to succeed Obama as president in an election in November.
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"While we cannot rule out a detente, we and the markets remain skeptical of a meaningful change at the G20 meetings," Deshpande said.
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Washington and Tehran, which have pursued a partial detente in recent years, both appeared eager not to let the boat incident escalate further.
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House Bill 137, which repeals North Carolina's bathroom law, was meant to put the wheels in motion for a detente between state lawmakers.
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Supporters of Rouhani, who promoted the nuclear deal, were pitted against hardliners close to Khamenei, who are wary of detente with Western countries.
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Poll results showed on Saturday that Iranians had emphatically re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, architect of Iran's still-fragile detente with the West.
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Since agreeing a detente with Castro nearly two years ago, President Barack Obama has used his executive powers to broaden commerce with Cuba.
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The surprisingly thoughtful, humane episode broke down the entire long-awaited detente, and even revealed some tidbits that paparazzi didn't catch this winter.
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Raul's most broadly feted accomplishment since taking power has been implementing a detente with the United States after a half century of confrontation.
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What remains to be seen is whether Sanders and Warren break their detente, or whether they end up pitted against some thirsty centrists.
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There's a brief moment in "Blue Valentime" when it seems like this memory might trigger the end of this detente — but it doesn't.
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Some countries, including Poland and the Baltic states, would be alarmed at the idea of parting with America and pursuing detente with Russia.
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Hopes fade for detente Peskov said Moscow would wait until the sanctions became law before fully analyzing them and deciding how to respond.
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Since Obama's detente for example, various U.S. telecoms companies have reached deals with Cuba to provide roaming to their customers on the island.
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The markets are sitting in a state of "currency war detente," wrote Stephen Innes, managing partner at Valour Markets, in a research note.
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Cuba and its arch-nemisis the United States had undergone a detente in 2014-2016 during the administration former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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"There remains much to do in normalizing the interconnection with the Cuban diaspora," said Carlos Saladrigas, a Cuban American businessman who supports detente.
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That leaves us with plenty of negatives -- and not much in the way of a "positive ID." Tipping point for US-Iran detente?
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The president's move came as markets were hopeful about a detente, or at least signs of progress, between the U.S. and China on trade.
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Despite the tentative detente between Kim and Trump, the Treasury Department has continued to press ahead on sanctions against North Korea in recent months.
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Seeking to make socialism sustainable, Castro introduced some market reforms to the state-run economy and secured a historic detente with the United States.
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Trump, who won the US presidential election against the odds, campaigned on a platform of detente with Russia and has expressed reservations about NATO.
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TGAF affiliate Detente today shared his tumultuous new EP Basic Dwell, presented as one continuous 93-minute mix exploring a series of demented moods.
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Two minutes devoted to what has been a major selling point for smartphones after the spec war of the late 230s reached a detente.
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Raul's most broadly feted accomplishment since taking power has been implementing a detente with the United States after a half century of frozen confrontation.
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The Saudis loathed his attempted pivot to Asia, his attempted detente with Iran, and above all his enthusiasm for the pro-democracy Arab spring.
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That is why the pair's emotional, colorful, much-needed detente at the end of second episode "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" feels so cathartic.
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The recent detente between North and South Korea has given new life to talk of unification for the two countries divided since the 21990s.
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Given the outcry of claims of administration cooperation with Russia, it's now clear Trump now lacks political room to effect a detente with Moscow.
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Obama's DOJ, after some high-profile raids and prosecutions of state-legal dispensaries, wrote a series of memos urging federal prosecutors toward a detente.
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In the meantime, the controversy over the Russian intelligence operation is straining the fragile detente between Obama's White House and the Trump transition effort.
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The unexpected detente comes just days before U.S. President Donald Trump begins a trip to Asia where North Korea will again take centre stage.
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A third of the Senate Democratic caucus had signed on, and the detente forged by the battle to protect Obamacare was looking increasingly durable.
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She and Trump finally reached a detente of sorts when he appeared on her first prime-time special on Fox's broadcast network in May.
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The trade detente reached by U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on Wednesday caused the dollar to weaken.
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In a period of detente, I think it makes sense to stop offensive military exercises that's really aimed at North Korea but also China.
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The session marked a rare public detente between Obama and Ryan, who have repeatedly clashed over issues such as gun control and immigration reform.
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"I think it's a near-term detente to calm nerves and win re-election," said one outside Trump adviser who speaks to the president.
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The changes in the JSA come after a year of detente between North Korea, its southern neighbor and its biggest adversary, the United States.
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Following a 2014 detente announced by Obama and Castro, the trip was a major step toward ending half a century of cold War animosity.
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Since North Korea and the United States established a detente in 2018, however, both Moscow and Beijing have increasingly voiced support for easing sanctions.
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U.S.-Cuban relations have nosedived since Trump became president, partially rolling back the detente initiated by Obama and reverting to Cold War-style rhetoric.
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Washington has unveiled a flurry of last minute agreements to try to prevent Trump reversing the 2014 detente with Cuba, one of Obama's flagship policies.
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U.S. airlines and cruise companies started operating in Cuba following Obama's detente, paying fees to Havana's airport and port, properties that may have been confiscated.
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Since then, the younger Castro has introduced market-style reforms allowing private businesses and agreed a detente with the United States, fueling a tourism boom.
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Trump, a Republican, has said he will dismantle the still-fragile detente unless Cuba gives the United States a better deal, while providing no specifics.
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Alina Polyakova of the Brookings Institution notes that last year's survey was taken at a time when there were real hopes of detente in Russia.
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Fed chair Jerome Powell will be digesting third-quarter GDP, a detente in the trade war, a shrinking manufacturing sector and the General Motors strike.
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But, until that final detente, the entire episode is a whirling RHONY memory factory made of pinot grigio, gummy bears, and blank-eyed Ramona stares.
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Many countries are rushing to renew ties with Cuba since its detente with the United States in hopes of capturing a share of Cuban business.
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While he still hasn't endorsed Trump, it looks like they have reached a detente, following a 15-minute conversation yesterday on issues of national security.
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Cuba and the Obama administration have been scrambling to deepen and cement their detente, through bilateral agreements and commercial links, since Trump's election in November.
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The Mount Kumgang tourist region was the site of early co-operation between the two Koreas during a period of detente in the early 2000s.
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SXEP also rose as crude prices gained on signs of a detente between the U.S. and North Korea Oil services stocks were the best-performing.
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Besides Warren, who had a detente with Sanders, the closest rival on stage among Sanders supporters was O'Rourke, who only 28% of Sanders fans like.
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He expanded Head Start and food stamps, sponsored progressive reforms of health care and welfare, initiated detente with Russia, and created new openings with China.
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Before the detente, the leaders regularly traded threats and insults as North Korea pushed to develop a nuclear missile capable of hitting the United States.
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The embassy was reopened in 2015 for the first time since 1961, as part of a fragile detente by former Democratic U.S. president Barack Obama.
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The two countries began taking steps towards detente in 2015 after 25 years of troubled relations starting with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
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But the detente exploded in spectacular fashion earlier this week after reports that the Sanders campaign was instructing volunteers to question whether Warren is electable.
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The detente between the United States and Cuba has raised hopes that full commercial ties will soon be restored between the former Cold War foes.
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The transaction coincided with expectations of political detente between Moscow and Washington after Donald Trump became U.S. president and pledged to improve ties with Moscow.
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"It's more rapprochement than detente," one senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity, alluding to U.S.-Soviet efforts to ease Cold War tensions.
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North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency on Sunday criticized some South Korean politicians and media who have questioned Pyongyang's motives regarding the Olympics detente.
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U.S. arms deals for Iran's Sunni foes help bolster the case of Rouhani's hardline opponents, who say any detente with the West is dangerous folly.
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That resulted in a dramatic detente last year, including three summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and the historic meeting with Trump in June.
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They were both on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorism sponsoring countries until Havana was removed last year as part of a detente with Washington.
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The detente with long-time foe the United States, reached with former U.S. President Barack Obama and announced in 2014 sparked global investor interest in Cuba.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - As Russian hopes of swift detente under President Donald Trump have fizzled, state media, which hailed his election win, have made a U-turn.
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The first effort at detente between Trump and Ryan, Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening, could come next week.
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After agreeing to a historic U.S.-Cuban detente in 2014, former U.S. President Barack Obama eased the embargo, which was fully put into place in 1962.
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In Pyongyang's first significant public statement since Trump agreed to meet with Kim Jong Un, the hermit kingdom claimed full responsibility for the burgeoning regional detente.
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The detente has been watched with suspicion by Pakistan's neighbour and arch-foe India, which broadly stood in the Soviet camp during the Cold War era.
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Stocks are hitting record highs again as investors cheer a U.S.-China trade detente and high hopes for a rate cut as soon as this month.
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The strategic thinking behind this quasi-detente is extremely hazy—a fact that may explain why both Cruz and Kasich (but particularly Kasich) keep undermining it.
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The United States and Cuba signed an historic agreement last week to collaborate on health issues, including Zika, as part of detente begun in December 2014.
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That looks set to change in the wake of the detente announced nearly two years ago by U.S. and Cuban Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro.
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The impending announcement from the Justice Department on leaks, first reported by The Washington Post, deepens the intrigue surrounding a possible detente between Trump and Sessions.
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The Cuban entrepreneurs will also urge Trump not to reverse the thaw, according to a statement issued by the office of pro-detente Senator Patrick Leahy.
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The detente has been watched with suspicion by Pakistan's neighbor and arch-foe India, which broadly stood in the Soviet camp during the Cold War era.
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Administrative officials in Seoul said they would continue communicating closely with Washington over the ongoing detente with North Korea, but their comments were tinged with worry.
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The question and the problem for progressive leadership isn't to define policy that will protect and support the public while promoting trade and peaceful international detente.
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He has rolled back parts of Obama's 2014 detente by tightening rules on Americans traveling to the island and restricting U.S. companies from doing business there.
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The improved outlook is driven by a combination of aggressive monetary policy easing in 22003 and detente in America's nearly two-year trade war with China.
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President Raul Castro's son Alejandro, one of the driving forces behind Cuba's declaration of detente with the United States, greeted friends and relatives after the show.
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Russia. Because Russia is the one that negotiated the detente with the Syrian Kurds, who are allies of Bashar al-Assad, and the government of Turkey.
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His diplomatic detente with Trump has led to meetings with some of the worlds most powerful leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The leaders will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of a peace and friendship treaty — but how long the current detente can last is an open question.
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His trip came as the two countries were seeking to improve ties after a detente was fostered following the first-ever inter-Korean summit earlier that year.
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Trump has rolled back parts of Obama's 2014 detente with Cuba, tightening rules on Americans traveling to the island and restricting U.S. companies from doing business there.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, had in June said he wanted to partially roll back the detente agreed with Cuba under his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama.
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As much as losing the country to the Communists, America may have wasted the chance offered by this incipient detente for a different relationship with "Red China".
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He has rolled back parts of Obama's 2014 detente by tightening rules on Americans traveling to the Caribbean island and restricting U.S. companies from doing business there.
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The original transaction coincided with expectations of political detente between Russia and the United States after Donald Trump became president and pledged to improve ties with Moscow.
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The sale of 40 tonnes of charcoal derived from the woody plant marabu comes at a time when the two-year U.S.-Cuban detente looks under threat.
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They are wary of any detente with the West which could imperil the Islamic Revolution, and hold influential positions in the judiciary, security forces and intelligence services.
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The dispute, initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump, is in a state of detente as the two sides work to complete "Phase One" of a wider deal.
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INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT The recent detente between North and South Korea has given new life to talk of unification for the two countries divided since the 1950s.
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Of course it could come to an end with a kind of detente with no clear winner, but that seems unlikely given the hubris of the combatants.
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NSC-68 rejected detente and containment in favor of a massive militarization of the Cold War, characterized by increased armament spending and military aid to U.S. allies.
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But he is not getting his hopes up, mindful that North Korea's participation in the Pyeongchang Games could spring some unpleasant surprises for an otherwise promising detente.
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The Netherlands and other European countries have expressed increased interest in the Caribbean island since Cuba reached detente with the United States just over a year ago.
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If financial markets are any guide, the detente between Washington and Beijing struck over a steak dinner at the G20 in Buenos Aires barely lasted 24 hours.
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Trump's rollback of Obama's opening has not affected a centerpiece of the detente, the restoration of diplomatic ties and the opening of embassies in Havana and Washington.
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The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) last week accused the US of "openly going against" the "atmosphere for detente" created on the Peninsula by the Olympics.
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The only Cuba-focused stock fund in the United States rallied more than 13 percent Monday, a sign investors expect detente to prosper despite Trump´s rhetoric.
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While the current restrictions will not be so severe, they come at a time when Cubans' expectations are higher due to reforms and the detente with Washington.
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But while the embargo remains in place, the Obama administration has loosened restrictions on trade and investment since it announced a detente with Cuba in December 2014.
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The debate in Nevada was a feisty one, with candidates who have formed tenuous alliances at best or an unsteady detente at worse finally bringing the heat.
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Trump's rollback of Obama's opening has not affected a centerpiece of the detente, the restoration of diplomatic ties and the opening of embassies in Havana and Washington.
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The administration of President Donald Trump, which has partly rolled back Washington's detente with Cuba, has sharply reduced U.S. staff in Havana and expelled 15 Cuban diplomats.
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The Americans takes place behind those closed doors, and it suggests one last detente, a step back from the brink, before we start all over again tomorrow.
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Along with the U.S.-China trade detente, oil got support as Canada's Alberta province ordered a production cut, while exporter group OPEC looked set to reduce supply.
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Riyadh and Baghdad began taking steps towards detente only in 2015, after 25 years of troubled relations starting with late dictator Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
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Moon, who leads the leftist Democratic Party, has long advocated a policy of engagement and detente towards Pyongyang even as he comes under criticism for pandering to Kim.
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However, he has also expressed skepticism about Moscow's intentions - a view that does not seem to fit Trump's vision of a new era of detente with the Kremlin.
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But even there, opportunities were curtailed last year when U.S. President Donald Trump partially reversed the detente, and they look set to be curbed further by tighter regulations.
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As part of the detente between Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro, the United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations in 2015, elevating their interests sections to embassies.
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Supporters of Rouhani, who championed the nuclear deal, were pitted against hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, who are deeply wary of detente with Western countries.
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The internal confusion and frustration arose after an email Yiannopoulos sent to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking for his verification to be restored in exchange for a detente.
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Whatever either side says privately, the fact is that they have reached a kind of detente that allows them to work side by side in search of fees.
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In a possible sign of detente on Thursday, Nissan called an April shareholder meeting to appoint a Renault-nominated board member and formally terminate Ghosn and Kelly's directorships.
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A group of 54 U.S. senators reintroduced legislation last Thursday to repeal all remaining restrictions on travel to Cuba, signaling support for U.S.-Cuba detente on Capitol Hill.
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Following the U.S.-Cuban detente announced by Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in December 2014, American visits to Cuba soared 77 percent in 2015 to 161,000 visitors.
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When asked specifically about Riyadh's relationship with its Shi'ite regional rival Iran and whether there could be a detente between them, Jubeir accused Tehran of destabilizing the region.
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U.S. supporters of the detente say it is improving Cubans' lives while contributing to opening the socialist system in place, for example by fostering the fledgling private sector.
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In the 1970s, conservatives were furious over CIA claims, made in the context of debates about detente with the USSR, about the limited extent of Soviet nuclear capabilities.
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The current restrictions will not be so severe, but they come at a time when Cubans' expectations are higher thanks to the detente with Washington and economic reforms.
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And earlier on Wednesday, Trump had met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, calling to mind the policy of detente that Kissinger pursued under presidents Nixon and Ford.
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Given the current detente between Russia and Saudi Arabia, it is easy to forget how different their relations looked before the historic oil deal set in late 2016.
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Wholesale shipments there would require the U.S. Congress to lift the embargo, a move that looks uncertain under President Donald Trump, who has threatened to reverse the detente.
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Relations, broken off in 1961 and only partially restored in the 1980s, were reestablished as part of a short-lived detente orchestrated by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Farm exports are still hurting plenty thanks to Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods, but the chicken agreement is a sign of potential detente in a damaging trade war.
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In 2018, the US slapped tariffs on the country and slowly increased them (while China responded almost in kind) until a short detente in December of that year.
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Pyongyang's response provoked new fears that a tenuous detente between North Korea and U.S. could already be nearing an end, even amid overtures from the totalitarian Communist regime.
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"We are cautiously optimistic for a detente in the US-China Trade War, and monetary policy also remains accommodative around the globe," Maneesh Deshpande wrote in a note.
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In a possible sign of detente on Thursday, Nissan called an April shareholder meeting to appoint a Renault-nominated board member and formally terminate Ghosn and Kelly's directorships.
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More generally, arms talks can be part of a Kissingerian detente — an attempt to relieve tensions and address a wide range of strategic issues defining the three-country relations.
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In recent years, however, Gulf countries have increasingly looked toward making defense deals with Russia, especially after growing wary of the U.S. detente with Iran under President Barack Obama.
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The island nation had turned the other cheek over the last two years in the face of Trump's efforts to end a detente initiated by former President Barack Obama.
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This crucial confidence-building measure opened the door to further detente between the superpowers and ushered in three decades in which worries of global nuclear war all but vanished.
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When Kim began to pursue diplomacy in early 2018 -- starting with the Winter Olympics detente -- improved relations between China and North Korea became an important priority for both sides.
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Seoul and Washington describe the move as a temporary measure to prolong ongoing detente on the Korean Peninsula and increase the chances of successful nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
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We are content to live in a modern era of detente, characterized by a resignation to accommodating those who oppose our worldview and threaten our core way of life.
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Italian government bond yields dropped to the lowest levels in at least a year on Tuesday, boosted by the lower deficit target and hopes for a detente with Brussels.
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Iran's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ruled out any detente with Iran's arch foe the United States even after the lifting of economic sanctions in January.
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The detente that North Korea's leader appeared to seek in his new-year address, when he suggested sending athletes to the Winter Olympics, has, from his perspective, accomplished much.
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The deal was seen as a step toward Cuba rejoining the international financial community in the context of detente with the United States and future competition from U.S. businesses.
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Despite the detente over cars reached in July, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross last month accused the EU of holding up progress, warning that Trump's patience was "not unlimited".
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The twin polls were seen by analysts as a potential turning point for Iran and a vote of confidence in Rouhani's government and his detente policy with the West.
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Trump's comments put the two-year-old detente in jeopardy just days after the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, which breathed new life into the policy debate.
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Tillerson has a history with the Kremlin from his time at Exxon, which had provoked speculation that he would help usher in a detente between the U.S. and Russia.
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Sessions has not said what steps his Justice Department will take to crack down on states where marijuana is legal, after the Obama administration reached a detente with states.
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Leaders from Japan and the US have expressed serious concern over the escalation of North Korea's nuclear program and have cast a wary eye at this latest detente. 5.
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Rouhani, a pragmatist who engineered the nuclear accord and a short-lived period of detente between Tehran and Washington, said the Trump administration was "extremely angry" with Europe's decision.
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It was only with his early release in 2014 that Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro could announce a long-negotiated detente, hoping to end five decades of hostility.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a supporter of the Sunshine policy, has made a fresh effort at detente since he was voted to power in May last year.
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Stephen Cohen, a top Russia expert who worked for former President George H.W. Bush, praised President Trump for establishing a "detente partnership" of sorts with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies has hung over global markets since mid-2018, and any sign of a credible detente has tended to boost sentiment.
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The talks follow a detente reached last July when Trump agreed not to impose duties on imports of EU cars while the two sides sought to improve economic ties.
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This detente lasted for just two weeks, however, before Trump was back at the helm, insulting Kelly and her "two really dumb puppets" for their analysis of past debates.
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Editor: Clarence Fernandez + 65 23 3861 Picture Desk: Singapore + 65 6870 3775 Graphics queries: + 65 6870 3595 (All times GMT/ET) Vancouver meeting focuses on sanctions as Koreas explore detente VANCOUVER - A meeting of nations that backed South Korea in the Korean war will look at how to better implement sanctions to push North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, officials say, even as the neighbours explore detente ahead of next month's Winter Olympics.
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Bannon has survived other White House power struggles this year and established a detente with Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner after a scolding from the president.
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The group, set up after a detente in July, is charged with finding ways to cut tariffs, boost U.S. liquefied natural gas exports and to reform the World Trade Organization.
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The flow of migrants from Cuba has surged as the process of a detente between Washington and Havana stirs fears that preferential U.S. asylum rights for Cubans may soon end.
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However, the Department of Justice is set to publish this week indictments against hackers working for the Chinese government for attacks on technology service providers, which could upend the detente.
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The flow of migrants from Cuba has surged as the process of a detente between Washington and Havana stirs fears that preferential U.S. asylum rights for Cubans may end soon.
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The stock defied a rally across European luxury goods companies on hopes the U.S.-China detente might boost demand for high-end clothes and accessories among China's burgeoning middle class.
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President Raul Castro, who has forged a detente with Cuba's former Cold War foe the United States, watched the unusual security breach from a podium at the heavily orchestrated event.
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts at detente stimulated international interest in doing business with Cuba, while President Donald Trump has promised to once more tighten 2.53-year-old sanctions.
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Less than two years after Uber and Didi reached a ride-hail detente in Asia, they're prepping for another head-to-head battle, in the traditional Uber stronghold of Mexico.
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"The signs of detente in the North Korean conflict are ... contributing to the lack of solid demand for gold as a safe haven at present," Commerzbank said in a note.
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Trump and Xi announced a detente earlier this month following a protracted trade battle that saw each side slap billions of dollars on the other in tit-for-tat tariffs.
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Donald Trump hailed his summit with Kim Jong Un, North Korea's dictator, as a breakthrough, even going so far as to say "we fell in love" during the ongoing detente.
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He has also insisted to friends and political allies that he alone is responsible for his successes in office, such as the recent progress in a detente with North Korea.
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However, efforts to achieve a detente have been fiercely resisted by the U.S. lawmakers, including some in Trump's own Republican Party, who accuse him of being too friendly towards Putin.
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The unlikely detente comes at a time when moderates in Ocasio-Cortez's own party is hesitant to unite on progressive causes like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.
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The state legislature has avoided taking up abortion issues in recent years, part of a detente between Democrats and Republicans over issues that are likely to ratchet up partisan rhetoric.
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Arrivals from the United States, which had surged in the wake of the U.S.-Cuban detente in 2014, took the worst hit, dropping 30 percent last December, he told Reuters.
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At 56, she is now firmly in the reformist camp, endorsing Rouhani's vision of a freer society and diplomatic detente after the lifting of sanctions under the deal he engineered.
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But this time, Lopez Obrador has moderated his positions and rhetoric somewhat, and both sides have reached a cautious detente late in the campaign even if they are not best buddies.
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U.S. travel to Cuba has already surged, albeit from very low levels, since the former Cold War foes announced a detente and the Obama administration eased travel restrictions beginning in 2015.
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WHILE the leader of the free world bopped with sword-waving Arab princes and denounced the ancient Persian enemy, Iranian voters on the other side of the Gulf danced for detente.
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The stock defied a rally across European luxury goods companies on hopes that the U.S.-China detente will boost demand for high-end clothes and accessories among China's burgeoning middle class.
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But analysts say turning the thaw into longer-term detente will be far more daunting, as the North rejected to discuss its nuclear weapons program with the South during earlier talks.
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In the middle of a detente in the trade war between the two countries, the US recently coordinated with Canada to arrest the CFO of Huawei, one of China's biggest companies.
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For decades, while the Soviet Union sowed tyranny across the globe, sent millions to rot in the Gulag, and threatened America with nuclear annihilation, Democrats were for detente and peaceful coexistence.
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Han said contrary to the trend toward "detente", U.S. forces were engaging in a "precarious military maneuver" by bringing their strategic assets near the divided Korean peninsula ahead of the competition.
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The former Cold War foes agreed last year to restore regular airline services after more than five decades as part of a broader detente in which they also resumed diplomatic ties.
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But analysts say turning the thaw into a longer-term detente will be far more daunting, as the North rejected discussing its nuclear weapons program with the South in earlier talks.
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In a squabble contrasting with an Olympics detente between old enemies North and South Korea, Russians and Americans at the sliding track on Tuesday were in no mood to make up.
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After Obama and Castro announced a detente in 2014, the Bronx Museum of the Arts decided to gather donations to make a copy of the sculpture as a gift for Havana.
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Ford had been under fire from right wing Republicans such as Ronald Reagan (who challenged him in the primaries, and almost won) for his policy of detente with the Soviet Union.
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The detente follows last week's Swift-Braun-Borchetta flare up involving the sort of music business minutiae that doesn't commonly interest the general public — the particulars of re-recording old masters.
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Although U.S. President Donald Trump has partially unraveled that detente agreed by his predecessor President Barack Obama and Former Cuban President Raul Castro, projects undertaken during that rapprochement have continued apace.
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But the Journal cited officials who cautioned that the president would continue to make changes as he sees fit, an indication that Trump also asserted himself while reaching detente with Kelly.
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"The internal politics will make it difficult, if not impossible, for Rouhani to pursue detente with the West and make concessions in return for economic gains," said another Iranian government official.
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Nearly 30 years on, the 51-year-old Im is now playing a pivotal role in an inter-Korean detente fostered by the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, officials and experts say.
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Cook, who is in regular contact with U.S. President Donald Trump, said there were signs of a detente in trade tensions with China, which may have depressed sales of its phones.
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That is not to say you will reach an actual detente with the horrors of mortality, but rather you'll become used to the subject of death creeping into your internet existence.
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Nieves said the U.S.-Cuban detente announced in 2014 by former U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro had eased tensions in Cuba, allowing civil society initiatives to flourish.
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The recent detente, anchored by South Korea's hosting of the Winter Olympic Games, came despite an acceleration in the North's weapons programme last year and pressure from Seoul's allies in Washington.
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But it was a short-lived detente as the long-term spending bill hashed out this year was largely done between lawmakers and without the White House's help and/or meddling.
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The deal is the latest step in the detente that began after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said at the beginning of the year that he intended to improve ties.
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Having governed as a centrist, Nixon endeared himself to conservatives only when his progressive accusers started to seem more threatening than his support for civil rights and detente with China had.
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Obama, on a two-day visit to Argentina that marks a detente after years of tensions, said Argentina under Macri was poised to play a more influential role on the global stage.
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The collapse of the Sino-Soviet pact after the death of Josef Stalin was followed by Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and Mikhail Gorbachev's detente with China 30 years ago.
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But deep skepticism about Russia in the U.S. and ongoing investigations into whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Moscow during last year's election have made a U.S.-Russia detente politically risky for Trump.
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With that in mind, The Verge staff has assembled a list of streaming films and TV shows that have created enthusiasm in our personal family viewing — or at least a tolerable detente.
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The potential detente with the West has alarmed Iranian hardliners, who have seen a flood of European trade and investment delegations arrive in Tehran to discuss possible deals, according to Iran experts.
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Trump's stance could weaken the hand of pragmatists in Tehran who have been willing to negotiate a detente with the West after decades of volatile confrontation, a former senior Iranian official said.
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But then his friend, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, should tell him why detente worked: only because the "three baskets" (strategic-military, economic and human-cultural) were working hand in hand.
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Trump, who can reverse Obama's executive orders, has threatened to end the detente if Cuba does not make further political and other concessions, although he has not specified what these should be.
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Obama, who announced the detente with Cuba nearly three years ago, eliminated a policy granting automatic residency to virtually all Cubans who arrived on U.S. turf in January, just before leaving office.
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But a recent detente between the two, coupled with Turkish concerns over Kurdish power and IS terrorism (a suicide-bombing killed 54 people at a wedding in Turkey), have changed the dynamic.
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U.S.-operated cruises and scheduled flights to the Caribbean island were relaunched last year after a half-century hiatus, as part of the detente with Cuba pursued by former President Barack Obama.
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President Donald Trump has also increased pressure on Cuba since taking office, rolling back a fragile detente begun by predecessor Barack Obama and returning to the hostile rhetoric of the Cold War.
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It's a voluntary system which has the appearance of a detente between the parties as its goal, rather than getting to the bottom of who may or may not really be ineligible.
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Those domestic economic woes have been exacerbated over the last year by a decline in aid from ally Venezuela and a partial rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente, dampening a tourism boom.
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Visits by Americans have soared since U.S.-operated cruises and scheduled flights were relaunched last year as part of the detente pursued by former President Barack Obama after a half-century hiatus.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's detente on tariffs with the United States has not put to rest "profound disagreements" on trade policy, the European commissioner in charge of trade said on Thursday.
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But U.S. President Donald Trump in June ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba as part of a rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente, casting a shadow over the industry's outlook.
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For decades we've lived with a slow-moving nuclear detente powered by mutual assured destruction (MAD), the RAND-coined theory that no nuclear power would ever launch a first nuclear weapon strike.
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Perry's appearance signifies a detente in her long-running feud with Swift, which was sparked in 2014 when Swift implied to a journalist that her revenge anthem "Bad Blood" was about Perry.
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The double whammy seriously depressed U.S. visits, American tour operators and a cruise line said at Monday's event, although in reality the restrictions remain looser than before the detente and travel easier.
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Support for the detente was also growing among the business and academic communities, said McGovern, who was traveling with a group of U.S. biotech experts keen to explore the sector in Cuba.
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Asked about the future of U.S.-Cuban relations given U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's threat to end the fledgling detente, Cuesta used an image to suggest both sides would continue to negotiate.
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Spanish companies from ferry operators to hotels are among foreign players rushing to invest in the Caribbean island following a detente between Havana and Washington in December 2015 after decades of hostility.
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"It is clear Seoul and Pyongyang could very well have their own detente, separate of Washington," said Harry Kazianis, a North Korea expert at the Center for the National Interest think tank.
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Dahlan, based since 2011 in the United Arab Emirates, is behind an influx of cash to prop up Gaza and detente between Hamas and Arab states including Egypt, which hosted reconciliation talks.
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And when you have a two-party system, there's effectively a detente because if one would ever be split, the one that remains intact has an enormous advantage in terms of winning seats.
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The Trump transition team has included five Cuban-Americans who are vocal opponents of detente and who have close ties to Cuban-American lawmakers calling for a return to efforts to isolate Cuba.
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Yet, confirming early signs of a detente, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said neither topic was discussed in Washington, where world leaders are gathering for the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
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And changing the paradigm in Washington and in foreign policy is very similar, and that Reagan kind of upset the apple cart as far as detente and foreign policy towards the Soviet Union.
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They were never likely to finish on the podium at the Pyeongchang Games, but still brought the crowd to life, a symbol of the sporting detente between North and South at this event.
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But neither has left much space for the other to back down gracefully, and the process that might lead to a detente, let alone a rollback of this year's tariffs, isn't yet clear.
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The deal, signed this week, came as worsening U.S.-Cuban political relations curb U.S. business interest in the Communist-run island of 11 million inhabitants in the wake of the historic 2014 detente.
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Some Cuba onlookers had questioned whether DeLaurentis, who led the embassy during the historic U.S.-Cuban detente and restoration of diplomatic ties in July 2015, would stay on under U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Cuban president Raúl Castro is preparing to step down next year, Venezuela has cut millions of dollars in aid and Donald Trump's election has cast a shadow over the nascent US-Cuba detente.
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Turnout for the annual Iranian street rallies commemorating the embassy takeover, a pivotal event of the Islamic Revolution, appeared higher than in recent years when Trump's predecessor Barack Obama pursued detente with Tehran.
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Two years ago, the more pragmatic, younger Castro engineered a detente with the old enemy that has seen commercial flights, dollar remittances and American tourists all flow into the cash-strapped Caribbean island.
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Kim's acknowledgement of the upcoming meeting extends the detente on the Korean Peninsula that has unfolded in recent months, which included a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in late last month.
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" And just before departing for Europe, Trump pushed the possibility of detente further, describing the upcoming meeting with the same alpha male confidence with which he handles real estate deals: "I have NATO.
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With tensions rising with the West, Turkey has sought to normalize relations with Russia, sparking concerns Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin might use their detente to pressure Washington and the European Union.
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Talks in June between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have allayed those concerns, and a detente between Pyongyang and Seoul has opened the door to closer ties.
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The entrepreneurs took advantage of an economic opening under President Raul Castro to build businesses, which they said took off as more Americans visited Cuba from 2015 in the wake of the detente.
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Anti-Castro Cuban-Americans such as Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida have guided Trump's policy on Cuba, including a partial rollback of the historic detente forged by Trump's Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.
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Less than a day after breakthrough talks between North and South Korea, the U.S. announced Wednesday the sale $130 million in ballistic missile technology to Japan, threatening to upend the Peninsula's newfound detente.
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Meanwhile, the partial rollback of the detente would fall flat with the majority of Americans, who supported the normalization of relations with Cuba, and with whom the country would continue working, Rodriguez added.
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Rhodes also said there was currently an "incentive structure" for economic change following the death of Fidel Castro, a vocal critic of detente, but that no progress has been made on political reforms.
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The detente with the North began in January with the announcement that Pyongyang would send athletes to compete in the Winter Olympics held in the South, as part in a unified Korean team.
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But Graham told CBS on Wednesday that the Sessions-Trump relationship has deteriorated with little chance of a detente "anytime soon," adding that a change at the department would not impede Mueller's investigation.
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The outgoing parliament, filled with hardliners suspicious of detente with the West, had acted as a brake on President Hassan Rouhani's plans to strengthen the private sector, tackle corruption and welcome foreign investors.
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The detente provides some relief to U.S. markets and businesses whipsawed by tit-for-tat tariff skirmishes that have seen the U.S. slap penalties on more than $350 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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Trump teeters on the edge of a familiar North Korean trap Momentum The Olympic detente has been an opportunity for the Moon administration to try to prevent an escalation of last year's tensions.
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Rosneft, Russia's state-run oil company, began shipping some fuel in May to Cuba even as the United States under Donald Trump began reversing a fragile detente begun by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Some analysts have argued that U.S. President Donald Trump's partial rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente has pushed the island towards strengthening its alliances with Russia, against the security interests of the United States.
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A flurry of inter-Korean talks are underway after last week&aposs landmark summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended a temporary detente on the Korean Peninsula.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares jumped to their highest level in six weeks as signs of a detente in the trade war between the United States and China lifted markets from Wall Street to Beijing.
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But even lower rates would do little to bolster small-cap shares without at least a detente in U.S.-China trade relations, said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco in New York.
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But Kwon said that the recent detente between the two countries was due to the "personal relations between Comrade Chairman of the State Affairs Commission and the US President," referring to Trump and Kim.
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They also highlighted the fragility of the detente between the Koreas, which in a military agreement reached last September vowed to completely cease "all hostile acts" against each other in land, air and sea.
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A top MLB official said in 2015, in the wake of the historic U.S.-Cuban detente a year earlier, that it wanted to find a legal way for Cubans to reach the big leagues.
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The European Union and the United States reached a detente last July when Trump agreed to hold off from imposing punitive tariffs on EU cars as the two sides sought to improve economic ties.
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The only North Korean athletes to actually qualify for the Games, they became a potent symbol of sporting detente and hit a personal best - with a squad of North Korean cheerleaders joining local fans.
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Because the runner didn't commit any felonies, she's able to share a really sweet detente with Jazz, where they agree they just want the same romantic opportunities as their female friends with less melanin.
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Trump withdrew this year from an international deal to curb Iran's nuclear program and re-imposed sanctions, signaling the end of a wary detente between Washington and Tehran and a new phase of confrontation.
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Amid the international buzz surrounding the country's detente with the United States, Cuba received a record 3.5 million visitors in 2015, then set another record for any single month in January 0003, officials said.
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The dramatic detente between the two Koreas has propped up Moon's approval ratings, which were hit by a stagnating economy and jobs crunch and then fell to their lowest levels after the Hanoi summit.
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With some deft diplomacy, Poroshenko persuaded Washington to maintain its backing for Kiev and not ease up on sanctions on Russia, even after President Donald Trump came to power promising a detente with Moscow.
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Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalise the economy and raise lacklustre productivity.
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It worked when Ronald Reagan made it clear that his administration was going to ditch the murky policy of Detente in favor of a "we win, they lose" strategy against Soviet expansion and influence.
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The bar, which serves cocktails with a view over the capital while DJs spin electronic sets, was created in part to cater to a tourist boom in the wake of the U.S.-Cuban detente.
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In another setback for reformists, Mr Trump has promised to re-examine the detente begun under his predecessor Barack Obama — although the US president has taken no concrete steps since his election last November.
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Yet while Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, which has vowed to unravel the detente with Cuba started by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, was quick to label the incidents "attacks," Canada has not.
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A North-South Olympics detente has raised concerns in Washington and Tokyo that Seoul may ease up on the "maximum pressure" campaign by the United States and its allies to rein in North Korea.
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Rosneft, Russia's state-run oil company, began shipping some fuel in May to Cuba even as the United States under Donald Trump began reversing a fragile detente begun by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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When Obama announced the detente in 2014, he said that decades of U.S. efforts to achieve change in Cuba by isolating the island had failed and it was time to try a new approach.
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The tightening of U.S. sanctions pressure has set Washington and Tehran, adversaries since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, back on a course of confrontation after a period of cautious detente under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama.
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Another US-China tariff hike It is "easy to envision" an escalation of the trade war, despite the belief that President Donald Trump would pursue a detente ahead of the 2020 election, Normand said.
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The deal, signed this week, came as worsening U.S.-Cuban political relations are curbing U.S. business interest in the Communist-run island of 11 million inhabitants in the wake of the historic 2014 detente.
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At a critical moment in secret talks between Cuba and the United States that led to a detente in December 2014, it was Ortega who relayed messages between Pope Francis, Castro and then-U.
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Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalize the economy and raise lackluster productivity.
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But potential detente with the West has alarmed hardliners, who have seen a flood of European trade and investment delegations arrive in Tehran to discuss possible deals in the wake of the nuclear agreement.
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The letter came as the United States was expected to issue new, tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, as part of a partial rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente by President Donald Trump.
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With Tonya Riley THE KEY The brief detente in partisan bickering over how to ensure people are safe to vote – and their votes are safe – amid the coronavirus pandemic just burst into open warfare.
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While Trump and Trudeau are enjoying a diplomatic detente after this week's trade agreement, both sides are well aware the mood could turn very quickly — especially if Trump decides to insult his northern counterpart.
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What if, instead of seeking to ram through a partisan agenda in the first 100 days, the new president and Congress agreed on a "detente," during which they went on a joint listening tour?
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Ayatollah Khamenei's scepticism over Rouhani's detente policy is echoed by his strongest challenger, Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric seen as a possible future supreme leader, who says Iran has no need of foreign help.
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The pair were never likely to finish on the podium at the Pyeongchang Games, but they brought the crowd to life, a symbol of the sporting detente between North and South at this event.
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The initial enthusiasm over that opening, however, has subsided since U.S. President Donald Trump took power, vowing to roll back a detente initiated by his predecessor Barack Obama and returning to Cold War rhetoric.
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The U.S. trade embargo of Cuba remains in place, but the Obama administration issued new regulations a year ago shortly after detente that allow U.S. telecommunications companies to do business with the Cuban state.
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A telephone call between Trump and Xi on Tuesday, as well as confirmation the two will meet in Japan on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit, have rekindled hopes of a detente.
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Trump, a Republican who will be sworn in on Friday, has threatened to end the detente if Cuba does not make further political and other concessions, although he has not specified what these should be.
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The contest pits supporters of Rouhani, who championed last year's nuclear deal with world powers and is likely to seek a second presidential term next year, against conservatives deeply opposed to detente with Western powers.
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While Taylor and Axe settle on a mutually agreeable detente, a more perverse reconciliation is achieved in the parallel storyline of Chuck and his actual father, Charles (Jeffrey DeMunn), a New York real estate tycoon.
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The sustained decline reverses a boom in arrivals and therefore the broader tourism industry in recent years following the U.S.-Cuban detente under former U.S. President Barack Obama that President Donald Trump is now unraveling.
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Istanbul (CNN)Outside an Istanbul courthouse, police with water cannons and supporters of two prominent journalists accused of espionage settled into an uneasy detente Friday, waiting for a hearing in the case against the journalists.
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For one, it moved America's Cuban-American population in a more moderate direction, away from the hard anti-Castro line of the 20th century — which cleared the way for Obama's detente with Cuba in 2014.
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Kim sent a letter to Moon on Sunday to commemorate the dramatic detente they engineered this year, including three summits, after years of confrontation marked by a series of the North's nuclear and missile tests.
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Hopes of detente in Moscow's relations with Washington under Donald Trump, who had praised President Putin before winning the White House, have faded as the countries have imposed sanctions and expelled diplomats in recent months.
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But the Trump administration quickly made clear it would dismantle detente and since October, expressing fury over Cuba's close ties with crisis-racked and sanctioned Venezuela, has targeted Cuban tourism, investment and the fuel supply.
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Companies from Cuba's long-term trading partners such as Japan have stepped up interest in the Communist-ruled island since its detente with Washington, seeking to win investment projects before their U.S. competitors turn up.
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The pact adds to Cuba's rapidly thawing relations with the West since its 2014 detente with the United States and the renegotiation of debt with creditors from the Paris Club of wealthy nations in December.
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Rouhani, a mid-ranking Muslim cleric and longtime establishment figure, was elected in 2013 by a 51 percent margin on promises of detente with major powers and an end to house arrests of opposition leaders.
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While Nixon achieved his goal of an opening to China and detente with the Soviet Union, Reagan wasn't able to follow through with his equally ambitious desire to completely eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons.
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This agenda includes ousting Maduro from the presidential palace in Caracas, lifting the Obama-era detente with Havana, and supporting the popular movement against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his leftist Sandinista Party in Managua.
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Washington has reduced staffing at its Havana embassy to its lowest level since the 1970s due to a spate of unexplained illnesses among its diplomats - a political move to justify unraveling the detente, critics say.
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Some lawyers like Carnival's say the travel exemption should shield U.S. cruise lines and airlines doing business with Cuba under licenses granted by former President Barack Obama during the two countries' brief 2014-2016 detente.
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That tightening has hurt Cuba's tourism industry - one of the ailing economy's top earners of hard currency - that had benefited from a brief U.S.-Cuban detente between 2014 and 2016 under Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama.
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There are no signs of a detente after the two-week holiday recess failed to move the needle in the stalemate over key issues like procedure and when to make a decision on trial witnesses.
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Reuters TV President Donald Trump took his enthusiasm for his detente with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to new heights, declaring at a West Virginia rally that 'we fell in love' after exchanging letters.
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I have no better idea from the speech what we might do after the pause imposed on us by the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the mini detente between Seoul and Pyongyang for the games.
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But the allegation alone ratcheted up fears of a direct military confrontation between Iran and the US, and quickly squashed any hopes of a possible detente in the United States's maximum pressure campaign against Iran.
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The recent detente, anchored by South Korea's hosting of the Winter Olympic Games that began on Friday, came despite an acceleration in the North's weapons programs last year and pressure from Seoul's allies in Washington.
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And while the U.S. and China trade war for now has stopped escalating after a weekend detente between the two countries, many U.S. firms are already seeing their costs rise from tariffs, hurting profits, Kaplan said.
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Trump will justify his partial reversal of Obama's measures to a large extent on those grounds, the White House officials said, and some Cuban dissidents back his tougher stance, saying repression has worsened since the detente.
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The unexpected detente comes just days before U.S. President Donald Trump begins a trip to Asia, where the North Korean nuclear crisis will take center stage, and helped propel South Korean stocks to a record high.
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The European Union and the United States reached a detente last July when U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to hold off imposing punitive tariffs on EU cars as the two sides sought to improve economic ties.
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Josefina Vidal, the Cuban Foreign Ministry's chief of U.S. affairs, told state-run Granma newspaper Obama could still do "much more to make the process (of detente) irreversible" before the end of his term in January.
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However, it will be difficult for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to back any diplomatic solution, because doing so could undermine his credibility among his hardline power base, who reject any detente with the West.
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" While saying that the current mood of detente and negotiation had given hope for a process "moving forward towards a lasting peace" on the Korean peninsula, Eyre said the North Koreans were "experts at separating allies.
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The response was summed up nicely by one Twitter user, who proposed a detente in the still-raging pineapple battle to focus energies instead on ridding the universe of the disturbing concoction that is strawberry pizza.
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Every word and gesture will be scrutinized by geopolitical analysts as they try to judge if this really is a re-emerging detente between the two nations, not to mention the reaction from Trump's twitter account.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday it was ready to receive U.S. commercial flights beginning next week and that it viewed their renewal after being suspended in 1961 as another positive step in a growing detente.
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Buchanan's words resonated with many conservatives, including those who had disliked Nixon for such liberal policies as the opening to China, detente with Russia, wage and price controls, and a general acceptance of the welfare state.
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Incensed over a perceived lack of Western sympathy over the coup attempt, Erdogan has revived relations with Russia, a detente Western officials worry may be used by both leaders to pressure the European Union and NATO.
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At a critical moment in secret talks between Cuba and the United States that led to a detente in December 2014, it was Ortega who relayed messages among Pope Francis, Castro and then-President Barack Obama.
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Trump's announcement of an additional 10% levy on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods undermined hopes that the world's two largest economies had reached a detente in a year-long conflict that has weakened growth worldwide.
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The U.N. International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) met North Korean officials last year to discuss Pyongyang's hopes for a new route that would pass through South Korean airspace following a dramatic detente between the two sides.
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The North Korean mission at the United Nations did not respond to requests for comment, but state media has released a steady flow of commentaries this year, warning taking issue with rights could undermine the detente.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - An association of Cuban businesswomen has asked to meet with Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida to explain the impact on the country's nascent private sector of rolling back a detente in U.S. relations.
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The detente paved the way for the April inter-Korean summit and US President Donald Trump's meeting with Kim in Singapore in June -- the first ever between sitting leaders of North Korea and the United States.
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The relocation and possible future withdrawal of U.S. troops would improve the delicate detente between the United States and China by giving the United States a legitimate reason to remove U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula.
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As has been the case since the ISSG first laid out a roadmap for a ceasefire and political transition in November, the detente would not involve recognized terrorists groups including the Islamic State and Nusra Front.
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The number of Americans traveling to Cuba surged after former U.S. President Barack Obama reached a landmark detente with then-Cuban President Raul Castro in 2014 and eased travel restrictions while maintaining a ban on tourism.
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But continuing signs of a detente in the trade spat between Beijing and Washington has seen demand for emerging currencies, and the rand specifically, remain, with investors willing weighing up individual country risks and carry yield.
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U.S. travel to Cuba has already surged, albeit from very low levels, in the last two years since the former Cold War allies announced a detente and the Obama administration eased travel restrictions to the island.
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Since Obama's detente, substantial headway has been made, however, with shipments of U.S. corn and soybeans to Cuba soaring 420 percent in 2016 from a year earlier to 268,360 tonnes, U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows.
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Every word and gesture will be scrutinised by geopolitical analysts as they try to judge if this really is a re-emerging detente between the two nations, not to mention the reaction from Trump's twitter account.
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Le Drian has been to Libya three times in two years and on his last trip, on March 20, he saw Serraj in Tripoli and then traveled east to see Haftar to try to broker a detente.
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North Korea&aposs outreach to Seoul and Washington has still produced a temporary detente on the Korean Peninsula, with U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un holding a landmark summit on June 12.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Minnesota's government and businesses will continue to engage with Cuba in the areas they can, like agricultural trade, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's partial rollback of the detente, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith said on Thursday.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's parliament, Miao said economic cooperation between both sides of the Taiwan Strait had made huge progress in the last three decades since the two began their detente.
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Months before the South hosted the North's delegation, its military contributed to Moon's efforts for detente, dropping the name of the North's leader, Kim Jong Un, from propaganda broadcasts blasted at the border between North and South.
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The twin polls, for the assembly and parliament, were seen by analysts as a crucial moment for Iran after years of isolation, and a vote of confidence in Rouhani's government and his detente policy with the West.
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Science diplomacy has played a leading role in US relations since the Cold War — for example, in the joint US–Soviet space missions in the detente era and in the "Green Revolution" of the 1960s in India.
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Rouhani engineered Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that ushered in a cautious detente with Washington before tensions flared anew with Trump's decision in May to pull out of the accord and reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
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"The 2018 trade detente between Trump and Xi has carried into the new year as weaker momentum in China has made Chinese policymakers more conciliatory," said Jake McRobie, a U.S. economist at Oxford Economics in New York.
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Nixon and Kissinger came to Washington intending to start a foreign policy revolution, one that would rescue America from its increasing isolation with a dual program of detente with the Soviet Union and opening up to China.
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But improved relations do not indicate a detente with Iran, which has a history of being a troublemaker in the region, said Dan Kalik, chief of staff at J Street, a "pro-Israel, pro-peace" advocacy group.
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Then, as the trade war dragged on, Bunge increased purchases of Brazilian soybeans to meet accelerated demand from China, only to see their value drop as U.S.-China tensions eased following a trade detente on Dec. 1.
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For Rouhani the stakes are high: His rapprochement with the world won him enhanced popularity at home and prestige abroad, dealing a setback to Khamenei's hardline allies, who oppose both detente with the West and domestic liberalization.
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The two reached something of a detente following Trump's stunning electoral victory, dining together in New York as Trump reportedly considered Romney for the role of secretary of state, which he ended up offering to Rex Tillerson.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians yearning for detente abroad and greater freedoms at home have handed President Hassan Rouhani a second term, but the hardline forces he defeated in elections on Friday will remain defiantly opposed to his plans.
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With the "detente" between moderate Democrats and progressives now broken on healthcare, Levitt told INSIDER, the primary field is set to undergo a bruising fight as what's within the four corners of their healthcare proposals becomes clearer.
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The language used in the Trump administration's announcement of the trade detente was very different to that in Chinese government statements, especially on Beijing's promises to buy more US goods and the possibility of removing existing tariffs.
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Now the two governments are at the same table and while still at odds, there is more possibility for a step-by-step process toward a nuclear detente and the goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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The Innovative Immunotherapy Alliance SA is the fruit of a three-year partnership between the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of Buffalo, New York and Cuba's Center for Molecular Immunology begun following the historic 2014 U.S.-Cuban detente.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono warned attendees at an international meeting on North Korea not to be lured by the reclusive country's "charm offensive" or public showing of detente while continuing to build up its nuclear arsenal.
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Market-style reforms and, more recently, a detente with the United States that has boosted remittances and the tourism sector, helped the economy grow on average at close to 3 percent each year between 2011 and 2015.
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S. relations have nosedived since Republican Donald Trump became U.S. President promising to roll back a detente agreed by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama and tightening once more a decades-old U.S. trade embargo on the island.
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Google took advantage of the Obama-era detente, which included re-establishing diplomatic relations, to set up a small pilot display center and signed a deal in 2016 granting internet users quicker access to its branded content.
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"The Chinese don't want Xi to move forward with this initial phase or this initial detente if they don't get rid of the December tariff threat as well," said Stephen Myrow, managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors.
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Cuba and a number of analysts have said Trump's Republican administration was using the alleged health incidents to justify unwinding a detente begun in 2014 by Democratic former U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro.
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Trade tensions had also ratcheted up after the European commissioner in charge of trade on Thursday said the European Union's detente on tariffs with the United States had not put to rest "profound disagreements" on trade policy.
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The former Cold War foes first restored direct mail service as a pilot program in December 2015 as part of the policy of detente pursued by former U.S. President Barack Obama with then Cuban President Raul Castro.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had announced the new restrictions in April as part of its rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente of former President Barack Obama and its broader battle against socialism in Latin America.
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Tillerson also cautioned against treating Russia as a partner, saying all meetings with Moscow should be based on issues, not agreed on the basis of a calendar, quashing any hopes of a detente in Moscow's relations with Washington.
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"We urge the White House not to call into question such an important achievement that has improved our security," he said in reference to the 2015 accord reached under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, who sought detente with Tehran.
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But the situation has changed rapidly in the past few months, with a burgeoning detente between North and South Korea ahead of Kim's historic meetings with President Moon Jae In in April and President Donald Trump in May.
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For Andray Abrahamian of George Mason University Korea, who like many North Korea experts saw real prospects for detente, this default to the old petulance is a "massive failure of public diplomacy" on the part of Mr Kim.
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The detente followed mediation by a Saudi-led military coalition, which is trying to halt the worst infighting yet among its allies in a wider war against the Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.
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Kim&aposs thinking on how his military fits in to his plans to foster detente on the Korean Peninsula and negotiate security guarantees may become clearer when he sits down with President Donald Trump next week in Singapore.
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In a sign of the detente, the Turkish armed forces said on Friday Russian aircraft had carried out three air strikes against Islamic State in the area of al-Bab in northern Syria, killing 12 of the jihadists.
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Expedia joins a dozen U.S. airlines and cruise operators that have already ventured into the Cuban market since the United States announced a detente with its former Cold War foe in 2014 and eased travel and trade restrictions.
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The royals' three-day visit comes as Britain seeks to strengthen relations with Cuba as part of the island's broader normalization of relations with the West, although the Trump administration has rowed back on the U.S.-Cuban detente.
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By closing off the one avenue by which transactional Republicans might forge a health care detente, people like Paul Ryan guaranteed the entire party an eventual reckoning with the basic idea that every American deserves affordable medical care.
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In fact, Kissinger has urged Trump to accept Russian claims on Crimea was a way of cementing ties with Russia, an indication that he too sees parallels between 1970s detente and Trump's push for closer ties to Russia.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commissioner is concerned that the United States will end its detente with the European Union and impose tariffs on imported cars and this could happen soon, Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said, according to his spokeswoman.
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Cuba's Communist government eased restrictions on small businesses six years ago and restaurants - called paladares, or "palates" - have since boomed, helped by a surge of tourist dollars since a detente agreed in late 2014 with the United States.
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And like the Soviet Union and the United States, the two dance around the conflict, keeping us guessing about whether or not they'll eventually make up, in a scenario that comes complete with moments of escalation and detente.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Towering cranes dot the Havana skyline as communist-run Cuba races to build luxury hotels, amid indignation among some residents and concern that U.S. President Donald Trump might reverse a detente that fueled the tourist boom.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had announced the new restrictions in April as part of its rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente under former President Barack Obama and its broader battle against socialism in Latin America.
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Makarkin said Trump and his circle would now be accused of being Kremlin stooges every time they pushed for detente with Russia, with senior Republicans likely to warn that any rapprochement would hand political capital to the Democrats.
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After former U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced a detente in 2014, the Bronx Museum of the Arts decided to gather donations to make a copy of the sculpture as a gift for Havana.
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Uncertainty about whether the U.S. and China can reach a "phase one" trade deal, or at least agree to a detente, before Sunday's deadline for new American tariffs against Chinese products has been hanging over the stock market.
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But it also reflects Wall Street's recent mood, which has been buoyed by a detente in the US-China trade war and the fact that the risk of a messy Brexit has receded to the end of 2020.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The spectre of new confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington hangs over meetings between China, Japan and South Korea this week, with growing risks North Korean actions could end an uneasy detente and upend recent diplomatic efforts.
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Instead, the United States was represented by Jeffrey DeLaurentis, chief diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Havana, and Ben Rhodes, an Obama aide who represented the United States in 18 months of secret talks that led to detente.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Even as the lift from optimism over prospects for U.S.-China trade detente shows signs of wearing off for the wider U.S. stock market, upbeat sentiment around China's economy could bolster shares of materials companies.
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All photos by the author Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, once friendly adversaries in an otherwise spiteful Republican primary, appeared to finally end their perceived alliance Thursday, calling off their uneasy detente in the first debate of 2016.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which has partly rolled back a detente with Cuba, first charged diplomats were the victims of "sonic attacks" and Cuba as the host country was at a minimum responsible for their safety.
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Rouhani engineered Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that ushered in a cautious detente with Washington before tensions flared anew with President Donald Trump's decision in May to pull out of the accord and reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
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The serious charges against Warren, along with escalating rhetoric from the Trump administration, suggest that the detente may be ending, which is raising concerns for the volunteers, mostly retirees and young people, who have come to observe the trial.
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PBOC boss Yi Gang has already signalled his readiness for more stimulus and focus is firmly on whether Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump can negotiate some kind of detente when they meet at the end-June G19 summit.
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PBOC boss Yi Gang has already signalled his readiness for more stimulus and focus is firmly on whether Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump can negotiate some kind of detente when they meet at the end-June G20193 summit.
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The sales came after Trump and China's President Xi Jinping agreed to a 212-day detente in their tit-for-tat tariff war to negotiate a trade deal after meeting at the Group of 22018 summit in Buenos Aires.
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The purchases are the latest evidence that China is making good on pledges to buy U.S. agricultural goods as part of the 90-day trade detente agreed to by U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
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The program has now been placed under review, said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security advisor to Obama who was part of the negotiating team that reached detente with Cuba a year ago after 18 months of secret talks.
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Trump, who in June vowed to partially roll back the detente with Cuba agreed by his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama, called the Cuban government "corrupt and destabilizing" in his address to the United Nations General Assembly last week.
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For the students of Daesungdong Elementary School, located in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 4-km (2.5-mile) buffer between North and South along one of the world's most heavily fortified borders, the dramatic detente came as a surprise.
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Mariel was much visited by U.S. politicians and businessmen under a fragile detente begun by former U.S. President Barack Obama but has been declared off limits by the Trump administration due to its connection with a military business conglomerate.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday denounced U.S. President Donald Trump's partial rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente, saying it ignored broad public support for better relations and would satisfy only a few Cuban-American hard-liners.
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Ray of hope The detente between Fatah and the Islamist Hamas could mean the end of a rift between the West Bank and Gaza that started in 2007, after Hamas violently evicted the Palestinian Authority from the coastal enclave.
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William LeoGrande, who co-authored a book on the secret talks that led to the 2014 detente Obama reached with Castro, said new sanctions "would not be a surprise," but added that it was also possibly just more rhetoric.
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The U.S.-Cuba detente, under former U.S. President Barack Obama in 2014, was one of the highlights of Castro's presidency and part of his broader opening of the island in order to preserve Cuban socialism beyond his "historic generation".
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They were also the latest in a string of goodwill U.S. commodity purchases by Chinese state-owned firms since December, when the United States and China agreed to a trade war detente as the two sides attempted to negotiate.
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But his ubiquitous presence during the Olympics-related detente contrasts with National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong, who was only invited to the Blue House lunch, and other top foreign and defense officials who were nowhere to be seen.
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The North Korean mission at the United Nations did not respond to requests for comment, but state media has released a steady flow of commentaries in recent weeks, warning that taking issue with rights could undermine the recent detente.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's speech on Cuba was a "grotesque spectacle," but the island's government will continue working towards better relations with the majority of Americans who back detente, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday.
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Critics of the detente argue the Obama administration has won few human rights concessions from President Raul Castro in exchange for allowing hotel chains, cruise lines and at least one U.S. bank to ramp up operations on the island.
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The new rules follow measures four years ago to make it easier for Cubans to travel, perhaps the biggest political reform in the Communist-run country prior to the detente announced by President Raul Castro and Obama in 2014.
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The sales came after Trump and China's President Xi Jinping agreed to a 90-day detente in their tit-for-tat tariff war to negotiate a trade deal after meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.
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After being hammered for much of the past two months, Wall Street posted its biggest weekly gain last week in nearly seven years on hopes that a detente could be reached over trade between the world's top two economies.
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From a 1967 call for detente with the Soviet Union to more recent decisions for military interventions in the Balkans, Libya and Afghanistan, Room 1 at the NATO headquarters has been at the center of the West's foreign policy.
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Many of Cuba's long-term trading partners are using debt forgiveness, swaps and new financing to try to win investment opportunities on the island ahead of their U.S. competitors in the wake of the detente between Havana and Washington.
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Various lawyers and Cuba experts said the new restrictions looked likely to end U.S. cruises to the island, which have been allowed since a brief 2014-2016 detente between Cuba and the United States under former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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The return to Cold War rhetoric and new sanctions has disappointed many Cubans for whom the detente had raised hopes the United States might soon lift its crippling embargo on the beleaguered economy and the two countries might normalize relations.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubans said they were crestfallen to be returning to an era of frostier relations with the United States as the news spread that U.S. President Donald Trump was set to revert parts of the historic detente with Cuba.
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After returning from the United States, the South Korean officials will split up and Chung will visit China and Russia, while Suh will head to Japan to speak to officials in the respective countries on the latest detente with North Korea.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Iranians should not thank Hassan Rouhani's policy of detente with the West for any reduction in the threat of war, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, stepping up his criticisms of the president as elections approach.
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NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Even as the lift from optimism over prospects for U.S.-China trade detente shows signs of wearing off for the wider U.S. stock market, upbeat sentiment around China's economy could bolster shares of materials companies.
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"The Chinese don't want Xi to move forward with this initial phase or this initial detente if they don't get rid of the December tariff threat as well," Stephen Myrow, managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors, told The Hill this month.
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A telephone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi JinPing last week, as well as confirmation the two will meet in Japan on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit, have rekindled hopes of a detente.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to end the detente and engagement policy that was begun by the Obama administration in 2016 as part of its effort to end more than five decades of hostility between Washington and communist-run Cuba.
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Before Friday's sales, China had previously booked an estimated 5 million tonnes of U.S. soybeans in three waves of purchases since U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a trade war detente on Dec. 1.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro will serve up to five more years as head of Cuba's Communist Party as he and other aging revolutionaries keep their grip on power at a time of economic reform and detente with the United States.
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" State-run news agency KCNA chimed in Tuesday, writing that the current detente is a product of "the matchless political savvy and strategic decision of the Supreme Leader of the DPRK, not just a passive response to pressure by someone.
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Tensions rose to their highest in years in 2017 following a battery of missile tests by North Korea, before a detente championed by South Korean President Moon Jae-In during his country's hosting of the Winter Olympics began to bear fruit.
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By ruling himself out, he has removed one potentially serious challenger to President Hassan Rouhani's bid for a second term at May's election, although he is still likely to face a challenger opposed to his policy of detente with the West.
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As part of a growing detente between the two Cold War foes begun in 2014, more Americans are traveling to Cuba and U.S. businesses are taking a closer look at the once forbidden island, but financial services are lagging far behind.
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Yet, even those party-goers said they welcomed the changes that have taken place since a more pragmatic Raul took power, such as market-style reforms, detente with the United States and greater personal freedoms such as the right to travel.
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Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping appeared to reach some sort of detente at the recent G20 meeting in Argentina, but it's still an open question as to whether this can morph into an agreement acceptable to both sides.
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HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States will draw up a roadmap for deepening their detente on Wednesday in a first meeting since the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president and the death of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.
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But after the CBO report revealed that the AHCA would result in a staggering 24 million people losing their health insurance over 10 years, there are signs that the detente between Ryan and the White House is coming to an end.
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The congress reviewed difficulties the party faces implementing market reforms, maintaining its leadership over an increasingly diverse and informed population and dampening expectations raised by detente with the United States and President Barack Obama's visit to the country last month.
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"The current detente in Sudan calls for optimism and we call for the establishment of an agreement that will drive the transitional phase through a real and stable partnership," UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on Twitter.
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Still, the unexpected vows from the two leaders "should ease the heightened tensions" created by an escalation in nuclear activity by the North over the last year, Fitch said, adding that this "period of detente" lowers the risk of outright conflict.
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The three-day trip aims to strengthen British-Cuban ties as part of a broader normalization of the island's relations with the West, even though the Trump administration has sought to unravel a detente between Cuba and the United States.
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From a diplomatic standpoint, the North Korean effort at detente with the South is another way of forcing the American hand since the ally we are attempting to protect may be seduced by the enemy we are trying to persuade.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would restart trade talks with China, raising the possibility of detente in a costly trade war that has pressured financial markets and provided a tense backdrop to the June 17-23 air show.
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Now as the trade war starts showing signs of a detente, it's anyone's guess whether it holds or the global economy gets "a big haircut," as the new European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde recently put it on 60 Minutes.
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But the starkly different way Russian media reported the Syrian attack from media elsewhere underlines how far apart the Kremlin and the West remain on Syria, which could doom prospects for a U.S.-Russia detente under new President Donald Trump.
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Obama entered into detente in 2014 with Cuban President Raul Castro, and the two governments continued to sign cooperation agreements this week to wrap up a range of issues before Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president on Friday.
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It was Kim, as the first member of the North's ruling dynasty to visit the South since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953, who delivered a message to the South for a desired detente at the Olympics.
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The tightening of the decades-old U.S. embargo on Cuba will further wound its crippled economy, as well as hurt U.S. travel companies that had built up Cuban business during the brief 2014-2016 detente between the old Cold War foes.
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"It will also lead to a backlash against the moderates and pro-reformers who backed Rouhani's detente policy with the West ... and any hope for moderation at home in the near future will fizzle out," said political analyst Hamid Farahvashian.
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Four years later came the landmark announcement of a U.S.-Cuban detente by Cuban President Raul Castro and former U.S. President Barack Obama, although that is now under threat from the more hostile stance of the administration of Donald Trump.
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U.S. companies and the outgoing administration of President Barack Obama have announced a flurry of small deals in recent weeks aimed at making it harder for Trump to ditch the detente established by Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in 2014.
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The French investment has been seized upon by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is seeking re-election this week, as evidence that his pursuit of a nuclear detente and attempts to attract foreign money will pay off for the economy.
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Tension over the alleged attacks, some of which involved high-pitched sounds, came after Trump said in June he wanted to partially roll back the historic detente between the United States and Cuba, ordering tighter restrictions on travel and trade.
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Pence aides first announced he would give another speech on China on May 29, raising concerns in China and the U.S. business community that tough rhetoric on human rights and other issues could damage chances for a trade war detente.
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Last year's dramatic detente between the two Koreas was instrumental in bringing about an unprecedented meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore last June, during which they vowed to work toward denuclearization.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif skipped this year's Davos, but Tehran was still a hot topic for many Western and Middle Eastern powers hoping for detente less than three weeks after the United States killed Iran's top general.
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Several people with dual Iranian and foreign nationalities have been arrested in Iran since 2015, when Iran and six major powers reached a nuclear deal at a time of tentative detente after many years of antagonism between Tehran and the West.
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Cubans coped with sporadic fuel, food, transportation and pharmaceutical shortages last year as key-ally Venezuela sunk further into crisis and the Trump administration reversed a short-lived detente and piled new sanctions on top of the decades-old trade embargo.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro made it clear to a visiting U.S. congressional delegation that his country was intent on pursuing market reform and detente with the United States, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy told a news conference on Wednesday.
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In 2014, Castro and former U.S. President Barack Obama reached a landmark agreement to renew diplomatic ties and improve relations between the Cold War foes, a detente that led to a rapid increase in U.S. visits and investment on the island.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians in Gaza will scale back protests along the fortified border with Israel, factions in the strip said on Thursday, in a sign of a lasting detente between Israel and Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas along the volatile frontier.
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"The narrative on the U.S.-China Phase One deal shifted at the beginning of November from 'detente' to being about real potential 'de-escalation' centered around rollback in tariffs," Stephen Innes, chief Asia market strategist at AxiTrader said in a note.
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Efforts by both Trump and Putin to achieve detente have been fiercely resisted by U.S. lawmakers, including some in Trump's own Republican Party, accusing him of being too friendly toward Putin, whom they consider an adversary of the United States.
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China made its first major U.S. soybean purchases in more than six months on Wednesday, evidence that China was living up to pledges made when Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a 90-day detente to negotiate a trade deal.
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"The prospect of a detente between two of the largest oil producers in the world (Saudi Arabia and Russia), already at loggerheads over the Syria conflict, was almost too good to be true," Singapore Exchange (SGX) said in a monthly note on Tuesday.
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Assessments of Moon&aposs diplomacy have become more divisive and complex, with Trump criticized in both South Korea and the U.S. for the concessions he made to North Korea, while others believe the summit will successfully prolong the current mood of detente.
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The announcement comes one week after an unexpected detente between the two countries which have been at odds over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea - a dispute that has battered South Korean businesses that rely on Chinese consumers.
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Jon promptly renders this sacrifice entirely meaningless by holding to his honor and insulting Cersei by refusing the terms of her alliance (because it would involve a lie), sundering the fragile detente between the North and south before it can even start.
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Queen Elizabeth (Claire Foy) heads to a private boat docked in Lisbon to finally talk through a marital detente with her husband, who can't move on from the fact he will always come "second," as he complains, to the literal Queen Of England.
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SEOUL/PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 10 (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister on Saturday, hoping to translate Olympics detente into meaningful progress towards resolving a tense standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programmes.
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The Trump administration has said Cuba is responsible for the survival of socialist Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and slapped new sanctions on Cuba, which is already under a crippling trade embargo, leaving the detente of former president Barack Obama in the dust.
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He now faces serious competition from hardliners, some of whom are close to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has criticized Rouhani's economic record, saying his detente with the West and concessions on Iran's nuclear work had yet to yield economic benefits.
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Proposals for a drawdown have moved forward since U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the case, which has been threatening the already fragile detente between the two former Cold War foes.
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Officials on both sides of the Palestinian divide and in other Arab countries say Dahlan, based since 2011 in the United Arab Emirates, is behind an influx of cash to prop up Gaza, and a detente between Hamas and Arab states including Egypt.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - From buses and trucks to a $500 million golf resort, China is deepening its business footprint in Cuba, helping the fellow Communist-run state survive a crisis in oil-benefactor Venezuela and insulate against a possible rollback of U.S. detente.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A breed of sheep believed to have been raised by the Jewish patriarch Jacob may soon be brought to Israel, its Biblical homeland, after an Israeli couple gathered a herd in Canada and brokered a bureaucratic detente to import the animals.
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The visit is likely to be welcomed by the government in Havana, which has seen high-level foreign visits all but dry up since the heyday of a detente between Cuba and the United States initiated in 2014 by then-president Barack Obama.
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The government began falling behind on payments to foreign suppliers and joint venture partners in 2015 and had hoped a boom in tourism and investment during a brief detente with the United States under Barack Obama would continue and help overcome financial difficulties.
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But firing Sessions, or forcing him to resign, would create a political shitstorm—one the White House can't really afford right now—so they're closing in on a kind of detente: Sessions can keep his job if he'll throw some leakers in jail.
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After months of high tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the presence of its athletes and cheerleaders at the Games has been greeted by some in the south as a possible sign of detente, and their every move is attracting avid attention.
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But the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has reversed Obama's policy of detente, reinstating such limits and sanctions in what it says is an attempt to coerce the communist government into reform and abandoning support for leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin may have spent years reviling America, but Russians hoping Donald Trump will usher in a new era of detente marked his inauguration on Friday with parties and trinkets from commemorative coins to "matryoshka" nesting dolls in his image.
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Despite the detente between the tech giants, Google still faces powerful adversaries, particularly in Europe where local publishers and telecom operators, among others, remain wary of its powerful role in how people in the 28-member bloc gain access to digital services.
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"Traders continue to dive into the yuan on improving domestic sentiment and with the U.S.-China relationship in an infrangible state of detente, we could hit 6.85 much sooner than expected," Stephen Innes, chief Asia market strategist at AxiTrader said in a note.
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That move came after a unified Korean team took part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea earlier this year, negotiations over which helped kick start a breakthrough in North-South relations and lead to the current detente on the Peninsula.
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Brezhnev tempered the USSR's meddling foreign policies and pursued a policy of detente and nuclear non-proliferation with the U.S. When that still didn't bring the Soviets economic stability, an older guard Communist Party power structure yielded to the younger Mikhail Gorbachev.
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After getting clobbered for much of the past two months, U.S. stocks rallied last week on optimism that a detente could be reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, over trade between the world's top two economies.
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Such a test would mark a break from the detente reached with the United States last year, dash any hopes of resuming talks on ending North Korea's nuclear and missile programers and put the two countries back on a path of confrontation.
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Such a test would mark a break from the detente reached with the United States last year, dash any hopes of resuming talks on ending North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes and put the two countries back on a path of confrontation.
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I would say the view today, what Trump is saying and what China is responding, would suggest that maybe we are more at a status quo level of a detente than we are at further deterioration in relationships between the U.S. and China.
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The new rules were criticized as too lax by Republican leaders who favor a hard line, but as counterproductive by those who agreed with Obama's rationale for the detente: that Washington's many decades of isolating the Caribbean island failed to force change.
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Iran, where hardline foes of detente with the West have been strengthened by Trump's pressure campaign, said on Wednesday it would give European powers no more time beyond July 8 to save the nuclear deal by shielding its economy from U.S. sanctions.
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The tightening of the decades-old U.S. embargo on the Caribbean's largest island will further wound its crippled economy, as well as hurt U.S. travel companies that had built up business with Cuba during the brief 2014-2016 detente between the old Cold War foes.
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With the detente settled, Lauren goes on a girls day with the ladies of Jersey Shore while Mike goes to run proposal errands with the guys (except for Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, who is too distraught over his own romantic situation to get out of bed).
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Tens of thousands of Cubans over the last two years have flocked to the U.S.-Mexican border and taken to the sea in hopes of reaching Florida, fearing a growing detente between the Cold War foes will lead to a change in U.S. policy.
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First, he linked this to the upcoming North Korea negotiations — reminding us that in contrast to the Iran nuclear deal, which was somewhere between appeasement and detente, his approach to North Korea has been the opposite: maximum pressure until he sees observable steps toward denuclearization.
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HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marking the one-year anniversary of the renewal of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic ties, the former Cold War foes said on Wednesday they were working hard on further deepening their detente this year, as the clock ticks down on the Obama administration.
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The tightening of the decades-old U.S. embargo on the Caribbean's largest island will further wound its crippled economy as well as hurt U.S. travel companies that had built up business with Cuba during a brief 2014-2016 detente under former President Barack Obama.
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The media were at it again this week, warning that hard-liners like Trump&aposs new National Security Adviser John Bolton are ruining the atmosphere of detente by suggesting Pyongyang must unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons before any easing of trade sanctions can begin.
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Since current Cuban leader Raul Castro took over from his ailing brother Fidel in 2008 (Fidel is still alive but appears to be suffering from possible dementia), he has been quietly seeking some sort of detente with the US like the one just announced.
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Mark Gilbert, the Bloomberg columnist, phrased it nicely So the current detente is holding: the U.S. doesn't raise interest rates, China doesn't devalue the yuan, and the rest of the world stops trying to goose growth and exports with beggar-thy-neighbour currency weakening.
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"Perhaps we do get the phase one deal and a detente, but when we get into next year there will be big issues that both the U.S. and China have big disagreements on," said James Rossiter, head of global macro strategy at TD Securities.
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"The UAE and Saudi Arabia have allied with distinct Yemeni partners ... Yet to this point in the conflict, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh have worked to maintain a relative detente between competing interests in the south," Elizabeth Dickinson, senior analyst at International Crisis Group, told Reuters.
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In a setback to the U.S.-Cuban detente negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama, Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to the Caribbean island and a clampdown on dealings with its military, which owns many of the capital city's top establishments.
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In a rare public detente, the Democratic president will hold his first formal face-to-face meeting with Ryan since the Wisconsin congressman took over the top post in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives in October after John Boehner of Ohio stepped down.
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Whether he backed his brother in this detente is unclear; what is clear is that a quarter of a century after the collapse of their principal sponsor -- the Soviet Union -- neither of the brothers could stand in the way of their people's wishes any longer.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Red tape and slow approvals from Washington and Havana make it hard for U.S. companies to do business in Cuba despite a detente between the U.S. and Cuban governments, according to American executives in Havana for an annual trade fair this week.
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However, detente has broken out between the two countries in recent months, culminating in the high-profile summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore earlier this month that led to a declaration promising to work toward denuclearization.
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HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators reintroduced legislation on Thursday to repeal all restrictions on travel to Cuba, this time attracting far more co-sponsors in a sign of growing support for U.S.-Cuban detente even as its future looks uncertain.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make his case directly to President-elect Donald Trump not to derail the recent U.S.-Cuba detente, the White House said on Tuesday, insisting that "turning back the clock" would be damaging to American interests and the Cuban people.
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"Traders view the deal in a tentative light as a tariff detente falls well short of bridging the critical trust gap which is an implicit removal of a significant chunk of existing tariff," said Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific market strategist at AxiTrader in a note.
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A meeting of states that backed South Korea in the Korean war will look at ways to better implement sanctions to push North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, officials said, even as the North and South explore detente ahead of next month's Winter Olympics.
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Relations were re-established five years ago this week under former Democratic President Barack Obama following half a century of hostility, a stance that earned the United States lots of goodwill from Latin America, which has been clamoring for such a detente for years.
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"I take that as a signal that the Cuban leadership still sees value in improving relations, even if they have to wait for the next U.S. president," said William LeoGrande, co-author of a book on the secret U.S.-Cuba talks that led to detente.
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On the other, industrial output slipped to the lowest since early 3.83 though the fall was smaller than expected and the data did nothing to change the view that the manufacturing sector is bottoming out thanks to a detente in the U.S.-China trade war.
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The U.S. turnaround, which scrapped a wary detente between Iran and the United States after decades of hostility, has drawn defiance from Tehran despite renewed unrest over economic privations, and has unnerved other big powers where businesses have been debating whether to divest from Iran.
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HAVANA/WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Cuba and the United States will draw up a roadmap for deepening their detente, the Cuban government said on Tuesday, in a first meeting since the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president and the death of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.
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After being hammered for much of the past two months, Wall Street posted its biggest weekly gain last week in nearly seven years on hopes that a detente could be reached over trade between the world's top two economies and futures added to gains from Sunday.
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Though it's been reported that Trump and Murdoch have been 'frenemies' for years (Murdoch seemingly had the money and power Trump never actually had), it was Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner who allegedly helped bring the two businessmen to a point of detente.
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HAVANA/WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators reintroduced legislation on Thursday to repeal all restrictions on travel to Cuba, this time attracting far more co-sponsors in a sign of growing support for U.S.-Cuban detente even as its future looks uncertain.
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Whatever the prospects for a U.S.-Iran detente in light of the nuclear agreement (Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says "absolutely not"), the agreement does mean the return of sanctioned Iranian oil to the market and a battle for market share by the cross-Gulf rivals.
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The INF treaty, signed by then-President Ronald Reagan and reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 at a time of unprecedented East-West detente, required the elimination of all short-range and intermediate-range land-based nuclear and conventional missiles held by both countries in Europe.
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"You could be contrarian and say [the money market flow is] positive, because if the market actually steadies itself and there's a detente [in the trade war], that money's going to go back into the equity market," said Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A meeting of states that backed South Korea in the Korean war will look at ways to better implement sanctions to push North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, officials said, even as the North and South explore detente ahead of next month's Winter Olympics.
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But his quest to parlay fragile detente with the West into financial infusions to rebuild Iran's oil-based economy has been slowed by investors' fears of pre-existing U.S. sanctions and suspicions among powerful hardline acolytes of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of any rise in Western influence.
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"From today, protecting the nuclear deal is one of my main plans in political and economic fields," he said, alluding to U.S. President Donald Trump's dislike of the pact reached under his predecessor Barack Obama, and also to Iranian hardliners who opposed Rouhani's pursuit of detente with the West.
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He is referring to the inter-Korean transit office near Ganseong, through which hundreds of thousands of South Koreans passed at the height of a past period of detente, to enjoy cultural exchanges, family reunions and hikes in the mountain park just across the border in the North.
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But most in Silicon Valley have no direct lines into the Trump administration, aside from tweeting congratulatory pleasantries at it in the vain hope of detente, so it will be a rough road for a while until the expected lobbying compromises are made in D.C. over the next year.
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Thousands of Cubans have turned to the Central American route to try to reach the United States, spurred by fears that a recent detente between Havana and Washington will end preferential U.S. asylum rights for Cubans that allow them to enter the United States by land without a visa.
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The second option may lead to something of a detente in the talks, but China risks giving up its best leverage over the United States, namely commodity imports, in nothing more than the hope that the Trump administration will suddenly become a more rational actor in the trade dispute.
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Aid from crisis-stricken Venezuela is drying up, a fleeting US tourist boom popped after US president Donald Trump partially reversed the detente begun by his predecessor and annual revenue from the export of goods and services has fallen more than $4bn, or 23 per cent, since 2014.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega, who came to leverage a rare level of political influence in Cuba for someone outside the Communist Party and played a key role in the island's now-defunct detente with the United States, died on Friday at the age of 21978.
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But the detente brought about by the Olympic diplomacy offered Moon an opportunity to dispatch Chung and four other top government officials, including South Korean spy chief Suh Hoon, to Pyongyang, where they met with Kim and some of his top aides, including his sister, Kim Yo Jong.
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Known as the Harmel Report, or "A Report of the Council on the Future Tasks of the Alliance," this seminal report bridged a growing divide between building greater defenses in Europe to fight the growing Soviet threat or opening a path for greater dialogue with Moscow or detente.
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But Friday&aposs statement is the North&aposs first attempt to link the fate of the women to the August reunion and comes amid worries that a global diplomacy to push the North to give up its nuclear weapons is making little headway after a detente of the past several months.
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Image 214 of 228 SEOUL, South Korea – The rival Koreas are discussing the possible relocation of North Korea&aposs long-range artillery guns away from the tense Korean border, South Korea&aposs prime minister said Monday, as the countries forge ahead with steps to lower tensions and extend a recent detente.
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Annual military drills between Washington and Seoul have been a major source of contention between the Koreas for years, and analysts have wondered whether their continuation would hurt the inter-Korean detente that, since an outreach by Kim in January, has replaced last year&aposs insults and threats of war.
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"Now the situation on the Korean Peninsula is at a critical crossroads of either moving toward a durable peace along with the trend of detente or facing again a touch-and-go crisis," leading North Korea official Choe Ryong Hae said in a speech Tuesday reported by North Korean state media.
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The inclusion of the lines is curious but not whimsical, an injection of the absurd that helps unlock the hidden-in-plain-sight illogic of the composition, in which a straightforward, three-part construction is assembled not as a vehicle for cohesion, but as a cluster of antagonists in forced detente.
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"Now the situation on the Korean Peninsula is at a critical crossroads of either moving toward a durable peace along with the trend of detente or facing again a touch-and-go crisis," leading North Korea official Choe Ryong Hae said in a speech Tuesday reported by North Korean state media.
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Yet while critics have rightly pilloried the proposed Burr-Feinstein bill as being both impractical and imprudent, a fairly simple amendment would make it a viable proposal that could bring both sides of the crypto war closer to a much-needed detente and prevent a continued escalation of the fight.
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Around the same time, the US moved to sanction companies based in Singapore, China and Russia accused of violating restrictions on trade with Pyongyang, as Washington attempted to maintain its strategy of "maximum pressure" which the Trump administration has claimed let to the detente with North Korea in the first place.
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Moscow had initially hoped that Trump would work to repair a relationship which has slumped to a post-Cold War low, but has watched with frustration as allegations that Moscow interfered with last year's U.S. presidential election and concerns over Trump associates' Russia ties have killed off hopes of detente.
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"So in some ways today's detente, if it holds, actually is laying the seeds for currency weakness over the next 3 to 6 months, because the odds that the central bank overplays its hand has increased," Ed Al-Hussainy, senior interest rate and currency analyst at Columbia Threadneedle, tells Axios.
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We spent the end of the Obama administration trying to set the conditions to make this possible," Ben Rhodes, a former Obama aide who negotiated much of the bilateral detente, said on Twitter, adding: "At a time of political division baseball is something that can bring Americans and Cubans together.
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To be sure, less than 10 percent of foreign visitors to the island are Americans, even though the number of those travelers tripled to 285,000 last year due to new exemptions to the travel ban in the wake of the 2014 U.S.-Cuban historic detente under former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Republicans in Congress wary of Trump's push for detente with Putin could pressure the new president to withhold the thing the Russian leader wants most: a rapid easing of the economic sanctions imposed after Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, the Russia experts said.
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The former Speaker's circle can fume and vent, but the new Speaker Paul Ryan is wisely tapping into the GOPe outside the beltway and combining its energy with that of the Tea Party, retired military, and religious liberty conservatives -- which means detente or even joyful alliance with a nominee Cruz, not sabotage.
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The right is dividing itself now between a small group of moderates who would welcome detente in the partisan health care wars and a larger group that demands ideological rigidity—even if the consequence of ideologically rigid health policy would pull single payer from the far-off horizon into the middle-distance.
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All of that was swept aside by Ronald Reagan, who dismissed the very idea of detente and aimed to crush the Soviet Union, which he did, and who also launched a major restructuring of American capital markets through tax and budget reform policies that were mirrored by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom.
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"No question the detente is favourable for risk, but the agreement won't change the Federal Reserve's outlook and if anything, it could lead Chair (Jerome) Powell to cut rates as the economic impulse from the Phase 1 deal could be meek," Stephen Innes, a market strategist at AxiTrader, said in a note.
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While U.S.-led NATO has long shouldered the military burden in Europe, the economically powerful EU has been able to boast of a "soft power" with recent diplomatic successes ranging from its role in brokering the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, winning a detente with Cuba and inspiring a pro-EU uprising in Ukraine.
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Officials on both sides of the Palestinian divide and in other Arab countries say Dahlan, based since 2011 in the United Arab Emirates, was behind an influx of cash to prop up Gaza, and a detente between Hamas and Arab states including Egypt that led the group to dismantle its shadow government last month.
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" The Hoover Institute's Melvyn Krauss argued in his 1986 book How NATO Weakens the West that "Europe's detente-as-defense strategy has made U.S. membership in NATO inconsistent with containment strategies" and "the military weakness NATO has imposed on the Europeans...is in neither Europe's long-term interest nor that of the United States.
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"There is one lever currently entirely in the administration's to provide a significant tax break to both businesses and consumers in America, and that's initiating a detente in the trade wars that were started with the Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs," Murphy said after a House Ways and Means Committee meeting with Lighthizer.
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On that latter point, both liked to argue this point, and they seem to have reached a PR detente on the back of today's news: Kalanick in a separate Facebook post doesn't provide a number to compare his service to Didi's directly, noting 40 million trips per week, as well as 150 million trips monthly in the Uber blog.
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North Korea said the remarks it took issue with were in the vein of "the U.S. desperately trying to reverse the trend of detente and improvement of inter-Korean relations, which is hardly achieved now", seemingly referring to the apparent diplomatic breakthrough surrounding the Winter Olympics, according to a statement from the Permanent Mission of the DPRK to the United Nations.
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Numbers are expected to rise even more sharply this year with the start of as many as 110 commercial flights a day from the United States, one of dozens of moves the U.S. administration has made to punch holes in the trade embargo as part of a broader normalization of relations with Cuba since Obama and Raul Castro declared detente on Dec.
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Tracklist: Molaré - BoucaDe Grandi - 94120 GrooveMHD x OK Lou - Champions League Defeat (Detente Blend)Aero Manyelo - YohDJ Gregory & Africanism - Block PartySylvere - Emergency CallMaddslinky - Compuphonic (Le Dom edit)DJ Gregory, Sidney Samson & Dama S - Dama S Salon (Dub)Bambounou - DogonDe Grandi - BYEL-Vis1990 - Ballad 4D (Sylvere edit)Sunareht - Hyul 10De Grandi - CloudDetente - Generation Assassin (refix)Franko - Coller la petiteDJ Shoe - PoingLe Dom - ???
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Additional North Korean cultural displays will also form part of the Olympic program, and Kim Yong Nam, the head of the country's parliament, will also attend, making him one of the most senior North Korean officials to ever visit South Korea.. Behind the recent detente, however, the reclusive Asian nation is continuing to develop -- and show off -- its nuclear weapons program.
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If it is sustained, it could fit into a tradition of aggressive American diplomacy practiced by the likes of Richard Nixon and foreign policy guru Henry Kissinger in opening China and detente with the Soviet Union, Jimmy Carter's Middle East peace drive and coalition building done by President George H.W. Bush and his secretary of state, James Baker, before the 1990-91 Iraq War.
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"The death of Luis Posada Carriles ends the final chapter of the long saga of Cuban American terrorism — terrorism that targeted not just Cuba but also Cuban Americans advocating reconciliation," said William LeoGrande, an American University professor of government and co-author of a book on secret U.S.-Cuba talks that led to detente under former U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raoul Castro.
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The_donald and Reddit staff have reached a detente of sorts, it would appear, based leaked messages from a private Slack chat populated by the site's highest ranking moderators:[moderator 1]: sticky post encouraging suicide [link][moderator 2]: seems like a poor tasted joke, but not something I would consider urgent or rule breaking [moderator 1]: if you say so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯[moderator 2]: I get that that you dislike the_donald, but we really need to keep this channel reserved for actually urgent things.
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Announcing that he will nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is obviously a bridge to far because of social conservative fervor, but offering a detente to Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE instead of referring to him as "head clown" would be a great first step.
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That's exactly what happened today, when the long-standing detente between Google and Amazon over streaming video services came to an end, with YouTube arriving on Fire TV and Prime Video making its way to Chromecast and Android TV. Amazon's second-generation Fire TV Stick, their Fire TV Stick 4K, the Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Stick Basic Edition and Fire TV Edition smart TVs made by partner OEMs will all get support for the official YouTube app globally starting today, and Amazon intends to extend support to even more of its hardware in the future.
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Sens. Bernie SandersBernie SandersWarren to Sanders: 'I think you called me a liar on national TV' Warren-Sanders fight raises alarm on the left On The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans MORE (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenWarren to Sanders: 'I think you called me a liar on national TV' Warren-Sanders fight raises alarm on the left Overnight Health Care: Health insurers urge Supreme Court to take ObamaCare case | Lawmakers press Trump officials to change marijuana rules | Bloomberg vows to ban flavored e-cigs if elected MORE (D-Mass.) appear to be at war after a long-standing detente, unnerving liberals who hoped to see a progressive win the party's nomination and fear the clash could hurt both presidential candidates.
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