At the beginning of his administration, he had hoped to restart relations, but that initiative had been undermined by the incarceration of Alan Gross, a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development USAIDD) who had been held in Cuba since 2009 after being convicted of importing illegal technology and attempting to establish secret Internet service for Cuban Jews.
Most Western European countries, dependent on Russia for oil and especially natural gas, have been eager to restart relations with Moscow despite its continued occupation of the two secessionist regions, and they overcame hesitation from the Bush administration and some Eastern European countries, which wanted Moscow to pay a stiffer price.
Mr Xi's visit is an attempt to "restart" relations that have made little progress in the last decade, Prof Zhu says.
The day's developments were a shift from recent efforts by Apple executives and FBI director James Comey to mend fences and restart good relations.
The U.S. must signal to Moscow that steps to take over Georgia, including any plotting to overthrow Saakashvili, would kill any "restart" of relations.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An inflammatory call by an American congressman for the secession of Pakistan's largest province has sparked uproar in the country, injecting fresh complications into stalled efforts to restart diplomatic relations between Washington and Islamabad.
Despite Cameron's words, a Russian newspaper on Sunday reported a top Kremlin aide as saying no "reset" loomed, a reference to the word used by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, to describe recent US attempts to restart their relations with Russia.
Now is the moment to press the "restart" button on relations with Iran and get out of the box of previously defined schemes.
As Mexico waited months for the United States to restart the talks, relations between President Fox and President Bush began to show signs of strain, and the political costs at home for President Fox began to mount.
Before setting out from Athens on April 8th, Alexis Tsipras swore that he would not be asking Vladimir Putin, the current president, for cash, even though his country's finances are in a more parlous state now than they were in 2010.In the end, the two leaders' meeting produced little beyond a warm atmosphere and pledges to "restart and revive" relations.
Last year Mexican academics complained that the bilateral relationship had reached its lowest point since diplomatic relations restarted in 1972, hit by tiffs over Mexican H1N1 flu in 2009 and a presidential audience with the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, in 2011.
