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 thenegotiating 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.
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.
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.
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 umwriting 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 stablepeaceful 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 youhave 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 andon intervening again it takes Mega diplomacy not just traditional modes of
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.
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 isthe abuse of public office for private gain that's precisely what they're doing but they can't be punished by the law
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
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
But for the most part, unfortunately, they do end in some kind of violence. of diplomatic work is going to have to be done.
Hell, I don't know. As diplomatic an answer as we could hope for. No. It's direct. It's just I've got no idea.
But I think I can probably go a little further than the late President De Gaulle, great statesman that he was, and of course a man who re-established 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 what is perhaps one of the most fascinating-- or perhaps I think it is one of the most fascinating-- but perhaps the single most important country in terms
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.
Presenter: Diplomatic answer. Presenter: Julia Child is....
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.
You were a diplomatic envoy, though, for women's health issues in DC.
as a diplomatic and conference interpreter of Russian and English to a desk job requiring minimal knowledge
was that diplomatic enough?
That's a pretty diplomatic word.
part of those diplomatic processes, where other states, who have far less of a stake than them, are deciding their future.
was on the Diplomatic Community um issue and what really stood out to me was that um it seemed to take be very explicitly
It needs a diplomatic approach.
It would be a diplomatic victory.
I used US diplomatic cables as one of the sources, because the US had a Consulate General in Chengdu at the time.
the German diplomatic side of things, as well-- the three most important codebooks that the Germans had.
They send a diplomatic embassy around the world not long after this.
I'm not always diplomatic .
I prefer a more diplomatic , behind the scenes, approach.
development and the diplomatic side.
So players all have diplomatic immunity.
This level of diplomatic skill and the flexibility in the negotiations with Congress to get this through was a huge asset for the country.
I'm being very "diplomatic " now.
Old Man: Diplomatic immunity.
One is basically diplomatic and the other is basically US Intelligence. And his job is to go in there and somebody will task him. "Find out everything we know about such and
nation state it will long outlive it and it will continue to be more and more important in a world where there are even more diplomatic players because it's so easy to say well diplomacy is just those 200 nation states and the relations they have with each other everything else that's just chaos well that chaos is much more of the system than the relations between those couple
so what we where the phase we're in now is where really the government our government is uh struggling very hard unity Mega diplomatic coalitions only really come together voluntarily when people want to do it the incentives are
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 one thing that diplomats in New York City I grew up right in New Jersey has been mentioned right outside New York City