Our most wrenching diplomatic trials lately have been with the French, and yet President Bush has not spoken to President Chirac in the past six weeks.
It would be embarrassing if all were dominated by speculation about whether the Chinese and Japanese leaders shake hands.As diplomatic trials of strength go, this one seems fairly easy to score: China 1, Japan 0. Mr Kan's administration has appeared unco-ordinated, confused and weak.
Following the conclusion of the trial, diplomatic effort to destroy the Indian revolutionary movement in the United States and to bring its members to trial increased considerably.
Recent warnings about an imminent Chinese crash are premature, but unless China acts, the bears will one day be proved right.Before then, however, the continued rise of the Chinese economy will exacerbate the diplomatic and political trials its government has faced in recent weeks.
Ceding the decision of whether Mr. Davis has diplomatic immunity to the trial court will draw out the process and will not please the American government, which has demanded his immediate release.
Eight months later, Defense Department officials said, they won agreement from the British government on a series of secret terms for the military trials, including diplomatic access to the men and a promise that they would not be subject to the death penalty.
The trial reflects the diplomatic maneuvering that made it possible.
The investigation into the bombing pitted Libya and its leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, against the West, with international sanctions costing Libya an estimated $30 billion before it finally handed over the suspects in 1999 under a diplomatic compromise that brought the trial to the Netherlands.
Patrick Robinson, who presided over the second half of the Milosevic trial, had a long diplomatic career but almost no trial experience.
See articleBradley Manning went on trial for leaking American diplomatic and military documents to WikiLeaks.
