The third panelist, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, tried to strike a diplomatic balance between the two.
U Thant was a man of remarkable intelligence, innate reasonableness, and diplomatic balance.
Perhaps no guest better illustrated China's uncertain diplomatic balancing than President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.
The younger Aliev seemed also to have inherited the Caucasian skill of diplomatic balance, eschewing Georgian-style pyrotechnics.
If the ambient mood is suspicious, doggedly skeptical, then waste no time in giving out your conclusions unless you have extraordinary diplomatic balance wheels.
In the evening, Mr. Obama entered the fray, faced with a delicate diplomatic balancing act involving statesmanship, policy and respect for a fading hero.
Diplomatic Balancing Act Less publicly, American officials in late 2007 began to support Turkish military action against Kurdish rebels in Turkey who have sought refuge in northern Iraq.
The Greek rebellion against Turkish rule, which began in 1821, threatened to upset the entire diplomatic balance of the western world.
BANGKOK — Thailand extradited Viktor Bout, a Russian accused of arms trafficking, to the United States on Tuesday, abandoning the diplomatic balancing act it had conducted for more than two years between Washington and Moscow.
The ruling came amid high tensions between Pyongyang and Washington and could complicate Washington's diplomatic balancing act as it tries to hold a tough line with North Korea over its nuclear program.
But Mr Cameron will have to strike a delicate diplomatic balance in banging the drum for British exporters at the same time as he comes under pressure to signal concern over Beijing's human rights record.
