On Monday, China's ambassador to India, Zhang Yan, called the relationship between the two countries "very fragile" while India's foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao, spoke vaguely of the need for the two countries to move toward "congruence and cooperation".
Together, this helped develop and tailor different sets of strategies to the needs of the three countries.
Before the embargo on Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil, analysts and oil companies said, Japan had been buying 600,000 to 650,000 barrels, or 12percentt of its oil needs from the two countries, which had been exporting a total of about 4 million barrels a day.
That kind of honesty is sorely needed between the two countries, and would be likelier to yield tangible benefits than spinning it.
Mr. Biden, for his part, emphasized that the militaries of the two countries needed to communicate better, particularly given that China's growing military might is putting its warships and planes closer to American ones.
Hoyer, long one of the most fervent Democratic supporters of Israel, plans to speak Sunday about the shared democratic values of the two countries and the need to counter threats from Iran — standard fare for the annual conference.
"A lot of work needs to be done between the two countries," she said.
Cybersecurity needs to be an area of cooperation between the two countries.
To get a green light, two of the three countries need to vote in favour of the investigation.
The order goes far beyond refugees or tourists ― it means that about 500,000 green card holders who reside in the U.S. but are originally from one of the seven countries will need a waiver to return to their homes, White House officials said Saturday.
