Jonathan Rosenberg: So, just following up on that, if we assume that IBM did cheat,-- Garry Kasparov: No, IBM wanted, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's use in a diplomatic statement-- Jonathan Rosenberg: Assume there was a human, there was a human-- Garry Kasparov: it's for IBM-- Jonathan Rosenberg: Oh, you're a, you're a diplomat now, I forgot. Garry Kasparov: we need, we need, I'm not a diplomat , you know.
everybody, continues to have the ability to engage in strikes against Israel. diplomatically and on defense calling for a regional security architecture in the region, but that would not be easily
that the freedom of navigation must be guaranteed and that Qatar was working with its Gulf partners to find a diplomatic path with Iran. Surish Negadari from BBC monitoring has more on the traffic in the straight. On the straight of Hormuz, the situation uh is uh pretty much the same if not worse. Very small number of ships
or Ukraine. So, I just wonder from where you're standing, does it seem like things have gone a bit quiet on the diplomatic front? I'm just thinking a year ago there was all sorts of diplomatic activity and it sounds like Ukraine was going to be marched to the negotiating table. All that seems to have just gone.
the the Labor government. What, if anything, can this government do from here? Does it have any realistic diplomatic or legal avenues to pursue? I think the avenues to pursue are quite limited. As I said, there's pressure for more sanctions. I think that's a
who violate agreements, political agreements, who put military before diplomatic or political solutions, who contradict the two-state solutions. These should be the targeted sanctions we should have.
They did nothing about it. diplomatic signals in Berlin.
The mode of diplomacy, the means of diplomacy has changed. Diplomats now, of course, have to scrutinize Donald Trump's tweets to understand what he is thinking, which is a different form of diplomacy than the one I was brought upwith in the '80s, the '90s, and early 2000s.
Because of course, funnily enough, it is Syrians who should have the largest voice in the future of Syria, not us, not the West, not diplomats , not Sergey Lavrov, not Donald Trump, but Syrians.And if Syrians get to decide the future of Syria, then maybe what follows will actually be a resilient and decent outcome for Syria,
So, for example, when the Iranian embassy was blown up, rather than deliver a speech-- I couldn't go down and shake hands with the ambassador because we didn't have diplomatic relations-- I went down and donated blood and then tweeted the photo and it went viral in Tehran. And it was one way of showing the Iranian people that what they were being told about Britain and the West-- you know, just challenge it a little bit.
In any other business, the first 90 days-- you all know this-- the most important time to really establish yourself and get up and running. Diplomats are often spending that time at home waiting for the phone call from the president's office to say you can come down and present this bit of paper to them.So it seems to me like some of these traditions maybe should be disrupted regardless, or were in line to be disrupted regardless.
He has, by far, the biggest plane. diplomatic summit. You can read all sorts of things into that. But has a pretty big plane, as well.
But then it became clear, at least to those of us in Ottawa and those of us in Tehran, the Canadians, that these are US diplomats , and we're happy to look after them.But at the same time is the Canadian staff is in jeopardy and the local Iranians who are hired.
to to the market but now 7 years later as all of you know Google is a diplomatic player uh you are so intimately involved in precisely those issues that we were thinking about um writing about some years ago uh and the fact that there is something called a corporate foreign policy or that a
contributions by which there's coordination among these different actors um on the ground if we had a better process if we had a better diplomatic system that harness these resources I think we would be a lot closer to being in a more more stable peaceful prosperous kind of world so what does mega diplomacy look like in practice and that's what I try to uh
Mega diplomacy another is decentralization we have a tendency in diplomatic thinking and in this field called Global governance to want to centralize uh authority to say when you have a financial crisis and people are vulnerable let's put $5 billion into a vulnerability fund right we have a climate change problem well we need to
failed States Somalia Yemen there is no end uh to the number of places that uh that really do need this kind of Mega diplomatic strategy to be militarily politically stabilized but also economically stable and fruitful so that you actually don't have to keep on and on intervening again it takes Mega diplomacy not just traditional modes of
serve in their countries un missions they work on the east side of manhattan near the UN plaza thousands of them and diplomats have diplomatic immunity they can't be prosecuted prosecuted under US law if they break the rules and onething that diplomats in New York City I grew up right in New Jersey has been mentioned right outside New York City
driveway or overstaying a meter odds are it's a diplomatic vehicle abusing diplomatic immunity to rack up unpaid parking tickets fits the definition of corruption pretty well the definition most people use is the abuse of public office for private gain that's precisely what they're doing but they can't be punished by the law
with unpaid parking tickets diplomats in London can get away with not paying their congestion charges now most diplomats pay them and if you look at the list of countries whose diplomats don't pay the congestion charge in London it's actually remarkably similarto our list of countries that rack up unpaid parking tickets in new york city with one glaring exception the united states the u.s. is actually at the top
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As recently as May 2026, China removed tariffs on all African nations except for one, Eswatini, a country that still has diplomatic ties with Taiwan. As for the US, one of the largest trading partners of the PRC, President Xi stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the
They did nothing about it. the diplomatic signals sent by the Portuguese, Irish, and French embassies, I think it was, before lunchtime
We are intercepting all of those messages. wordy diplomatic messages. We were reading every single one of those messages thanks to a woman named Genevieve Grotjan, a graduate
of diplomatic work is going to have to be done.
As diplomatic an answer as we could hope for.
full diplomatic relations between France and the People's Republic of China, and speak at a bit more length about what it is that makes up
any diplomatic training which is probably good because
the public doesn't actually trust us enough with their data to give us the power we need to take better diplomatic lobbyists, which is one of the core things that we do.
to diplomatic positions, including finally Secretary of State.
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um a key diplomat who's been involved in in this particularly the issue of disarmament. So now Mr. Kushner has gone
You become a diplomat .
He is such a diplomat , and he's gotten much better since he's been a meditator.
the public doesn't actually trust us enough with their data to give us the power we need to take Before you become a diplomat , you have a year of being tested and assessed.
the public doesn't actually trust us enough with their data to give us the power we need to take If you Google "Naked Diplomat " inside the Foreign Office, you get the hand saying inappropriate content.
And he was a diplomat .
The international diplomat lost its glamour after a while, but I thought, well, I like to write.
to help us to diplomat .
I'm a diplomat and a writer.
I've been a diplomat now for 26 years and a writer only for the last what?
an American diplomat whose name is Joseph Nye who came up--coined the term 'the power of attraction.' And places today have to be attractive if they want to be compete out there.
He was a diplomat and he spoke 20 languages.
US government is allowed to do when was the last time the Chinese government released a political prisoner because a highlevel American Diplomat was going to China not probably since the 1990s not since most of you were in uh you know middle school or Elementary School they don't do that anymore they're too confident to allow it but what they do allow is what I call functional activism
so what we where the phase we're in now is where really the government our government is uh struggling very hard are a health Diplomat you're an education Diplomat you are uh an ed you are an information Diplomat but whatever
X was not alone diplomats from 17 countries averaged at least 50 unpaid parking tickets per diplomat per year in our data and these are the countries kuwait comes out on top led by ambassador x then Egypt Chad Sudan
role of diplomatic spoiler. So in the 12-day war when last June when the US bomb fore we've been focusing on that
break with normal diplomatic convention.
political economic diplomatic capital to pressure states to step back from the court,
in the diplomatic service, he would write comments-- "this man is a fascist" and so on-- and generally wind people up in the office.