"Both the Chinese and the Kazaks want this to go through, " says a diplomat in Almaty.
"The Tigers have never lost people and expended munitions at this rate, " says a diplomat.
"For now, there is still loyalty to the royal family, " says a diplomat.
"Just as the government wants to deal with opium cultivators by showing them a different way to make a living, so it is trying to deal with leaders by showing them too there's a different way of making a living, " says a diplomat in Yangon.
"The idea of revolutionary change has spread among the students, " says a Western diplomat in Jakarta.
"I think this thing is going to blow, " says a Western diplomat who travels Indonesia extensively.
Iran has not provided a reason for America to lift sanctions, says a western diplomat.
"It's a lot easier to do business in Kazakhstan than Russia, " says a Western diplomat in the region.
Were countries not already committed to negotiate about agriculture and services, there would be no impetus at all for a new round, says a senior western diplomat.
In turn, Prince Vajiralongkorn is itching to meddle in the annual autumnal shuffle of senior jobs in the armed forces and extend his support base, says a senior Asian diplomat.
"They need us more than we need them, " says a U.S. diplomat in the region.
"There are things we want that they're not ready to exchange yet, " says a U.S. diplomat in the region.
Taipei's Central Daily News says Mr Zhang is a seasoned diplomat like his predecessor, who will hopefully continue Beijing's more flexible approach towards Taiwan's international activities.
"The Americans want to quietly hand over their report and China to accept it, " says a senior analyst (and ex-diplomat to North America) at the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Institute of International Studies.
Yet one diplomat says he has never witnessed such a change in mood in so short a time, to the extent that one problem now is managing expectations.
You also report other views - a European diplomat, for instance, who says the only way that the Iranian uranium enrichment program makes sense is if you assume they are trying to build a bomb.
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"The Clinton administration does not want to be the first in several decades not to have signed a significant arms control agreement with Moscow, " says former diplomat and Clinton administration official Thomas Graham Jr.
This argument cuts little ice with Migration Watch chairman, former diplomat Sir Andrew Green, who says the presence of a settled Romanian population in the UK is a "pull factor" that will encourage more to make the journey.
Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, who wrote the Diplomat's Brief says that even an accused terrorist has certain basic rights to a fair trial under the Geneva Conventions.
The government has provoked a row with Latvia one of the countries Mr Lukashenka says is plotting against him by broadcasting covertly filmed footage of gay sex, purportedly involving a Latvian diplomat.
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