Some political analysts say he smells an electoral defeat for his team, and is preparing the ground for a post-election rapprochement with Hezbollah and its Syrian allies.
There was talk, after Trump's election, of a possible rapprochement with Syria, perhaps facilitated by Putin.
Party sources dismissed suggestions that Miliband's decision to revive the first pledge of Blair's 1997 election pledge card indicated that a rapprochement is under way with the former prime minister.
Tsai's predecessor oversaw an unprecedented rapprochement with China but her election was widely seen as a sign of public frustration that such a policy had failed to benefit Taiwan's 23 million citizens.
As Duterte, 71, landed in China on Tuesday evening, the Communist party's official media heaped praise on his decision to seek a rapprochement with Beijing after his landslide election in May.
While Obama may have sent conciliatory signals to Iran concerning the possibility of rapprochement in the aftermath of his election in November 2008, this was not the environment faced by Iran when it made the decision to withdraw from its commitment to declare any new nuclear facility under construction.
Mr Chung, a billionaire and presidential candidate himself in 1992, was a leading architect of rapprochement with North Korea.In the previous election, smears directed at the GNP's candidate helped the Uri party win.
They are now watching as Barack Obama pursues the possibilities for rapprochement with Iran, in the wake of the election of Hassan Rouhani, an action that would mark a complete and utter betrayal of everything for which the half-century old Saudi-American alliance has stood.
South Korea's presidential election swept another conservative to power, but one who supports conditional rapprochement with North Korea — a line at variance with the policies of departing President Lee Myung-bak and President Obama to keep Pyongyang punitively isolated.
Some fear a repeat of the humiliation of 2010, when the EU's last attempt at a rapprochement with Mr Lukashenko died in the post-election crackdown.
In the run-up to last year's election, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Joseph Lieberman responded positively to requests for a rapprochement.
