Politics in Taiwan is framed as a debate about independence or unification but is really about preserving the status quo.The next step in rapprochement with China would be a meeting between political leaders.
We've had word that on board Air Force One Mr Trump is making his likely quite tricky phone call to South Korea's Moon Jae-in, a man who has invested much in rapprochement with North Korea.
But it is worth a shot: with Minsk-Moscow relations apparently heading for a rocky period, senior figures in the government may see merit in a rapprochement with the EU.
Rhodes said that the Cuban negotiators he later met with told him that Obama's gesture had greatly impressed them, and convinced them to move forward in a rapprochement with the U.S., saying, "Your President treated us with respect".
Having sidelined political moderates, the hardliners that support Mr Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader have less interest than ever in a rapprochement with the West, which could erode the international isolation that entrenches their grip on power.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made rapprochement with the North the signature policy of his administration.
Born in 1972, he played a key role in Libya's rapprochement with the West between 2000 and the 2011 uprising.
Because getting Iran's leaders to abandon duplicity and opacity in respect of their nuclear intentions, and to engage in a broader rapprochement with the world, is hard to choreograph when they are divided among themselves.
The Western-educated English speaker was once regarded as the reformist face of the Libyan government, playing a key role in Libya's rapprochement with the West between 2000 and the 2011 uprising.
Prominent Russians are openly questioning President Vladimir Putin's wisdom in snubbing the U.S. so blatantly and in making a dubious rapprochement with the Iran regime, when Russia's greatest potential threat now comes from Islamic fundamentalists within and just outside Russian borders.
