Mr. Er, the co-author of "The Foreign Shepherd," said it was an offer that many Chinese couldn't refuse.
"When H.I.V. was spreading province by province through China, the Chinese government spent a lot of time working with religious groups to use morality to defend the people against AIDS," said Wan Yanhai, who runs a Chinese Web site about H.I.V. and recently co-authored a report called "The Foreign Shepherd," about the International Educational Foundation's work in China.
"I think most Chinese don't have a good idea of what this group is, even if they have heard it's the Unification Church," said Er Yan, the other author of "The Foreign Shepherd," who is also the general coordinator of the Chinese Society for the Study of Sexual Minorities.
With a big push from the Obama Administration and the input of China, India, and other developing countries, officials from the French foreign ministry shepherded through a text that all sides could agree on.
"We wanted to revive this festival in a new way, in a new Iraq," said Ali Makzumi, an official at the Ministry of Culture who was responsible for shepherding the foreign visitors, sounding exceedingly disappointed in the result.
His dealings stretched across the globe as he negotiated partnerships with the Norwegian oil company Statoil, China's CNOOC and France's Total, shepherding the foreign oil giants into joint ventures in shale fields around the country.
The result was a near revolt within her own agency in which senior bureaucrats, more accustomed to shepherding the foreign minister rather than taking orders, openly sparred with her in heated meetings at the ministry.
In his article "North Korea throws down the gauntlet" (Views, June 4), Henry Kissinger writes, "Acceptance of the North Korean nuclear program would fly in the face of American foreign policy since we shepherded the Nuclear Non-Proliferation throughtheough the international community in 1967, as well as of the policy put forward by President Obama only two months ago in a seminal speech in Prague".
Acceptance of the North Korean nuclear program would fly in the face of American foreign policy since we shepherded the Nuclear Non-Proliferation throughtheough the international community in 1967, as well as of the policy put forward by President Obama only two months ago in a seminal speech in Prague.
Senator Bob Menendez, the powerful chairman of the foreign relations committee who helped shepherd the bill through the upper chamber, said the combined congressional votes were "critical for President Putin to hear".
However, on occasion, there are fundamental shifts that take place in foreign policy, and presidents can shepherd a nation in the direction it will go anyway, rather than fighting it.
