This is the first time in modern history that the United States has failed to ratify a major arms control agreement, a development that has unsettled allies in Europe and Asia, while making Washington an easy target of criticism for Moscow and Beijing.
In Sudan hundreds of thousands are raped, murdered, and forced from their villages as the West's efforts to improve the situation are undermined by unconditional support for the regime in Khartoum from Beijing and Moscow.
In the meeting, French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged nations to persuade Moscow and Beijing to drop their support for Syria's regime.
The goal for the Americans in both cases was to get Moscow and Beijing on board to back tougher sanctions against Iran.
Let Moscow and Beijing think about all that for a while.
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Now it is a symbol of strategic stability for Mr. Clinton and his new strategic partners in Moscow and Beijing.
The left would apologize for our power, wax multicultural, placate Moscow and Islamists, mollify Beijing, abandon Georgia, battle over civil rights issues of internment and due process while enemies flourish inside our borders.
For America's onlooking competitors and adversaries in Tehran, Beijing, Moscow, Pyongyang and Waziristan, a U.S. president's magic act is for them a very real opportunity.
In what the administration is presenting as a great diplomatic victory, Beijing and Moscow agreed to back a sanctions resolution against Iran in the UN Security Council for its refusal to end its illicit uranium enrichment.
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It took seven consecutive days and nights on trains to get from Moscow to Beijing, each day spent gazing out the windows for hours as the Siberian plains swept by.
The United States must engage with both Beijing and Moscow to preclude Sino-Soviet condominium in Cambodia that would effectively preclude a role for the non-communists, with or without Sihanouk, in obtaining and governing an independent Cambodia.
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