Keywords (Feb. 24)

Press conference
G-20
G-7
G-7 countries
Coordinate their policies
Dialogues
Dialogue process
Long peace
World war
Proxy wars
Viet communist
All-out war
Cuban missile crisis

Hot lines
Kremlin
White House
Presidential office, palace
Advocate
Aso
Approval rating
Single digit
Terrible shape
Honeymoon period
Elected politician
Deliver his first State of the Union address
Senate
Stimulus package of bills stimulate the economy
Positive cycle
Vicious cycle
Domino effects
Recession
Contraction of the economy
Incumbent president
Make appeal
Depression
Recovery


Who? Whom? When? Where? What? How? Why? With what effects?
Sworn in
Go nuclear
Neighboring countries
Pre-emptive, preventive strike
Security dilemma
Arms race
Deter NK from attacking Japan
Destabilize, stabilize
Proliferation
Blackmail
WMD, Weapons of Massive Destruction
Acquire
Imperative, urgent
Six-party talks
Launching missiles
Aspiration
Give-and-take
In exchange for
Scratch my back
Food shortage,
Give in, give up
Reciprocate eye-for-an-eye tit for tat
Gesture
Stuck
Make concession, make a deal
On its side
Reduction, easing of tension
On the top of the agenda
Internal affairs
Mind your own business
Military-to-military relations
China’s rise
Dominant, hegemon
Decades
Aircraft carriers
Strategic and economic dialogue, monologue
Bilateral
Issue-areas
Financial meltdown
Clean energy
Bio-fuel
Agro-fuel
Solar power
Alternative
Invest
Critical role
Pump the gas
MRT
Tube, underground, Metro,
Per barrel
Reach out to
Head of the delegation
Making and implementing
executing policies
Foreign policy team
Sinologist, China experts, China hands
Sino-U.S. relations
Academia Sinica
Ivy League
Elite university
Editor in chief
Harvard Law Review
Defects
He cheated on his wife and got away with it.
Eloquent


Deputy secretary of state
Random
Quote of the week.
Source of your quote
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Shoot it.
Islam, Muslim
Vivid
Add fuel to the fire
Provocative , provoke
Poke into your eyes
Jobless people
Leave without pay
Laid off, lay off
We are all socialists now.
Role of the state
Leftist government
We shall hang together, or we shall be hanged separately.
Deficit
Revenues
Pledges
Inherit
The debt, in debt
Consumption voucher
Dig a hole
Common, joint policy position
Group 77
Summit meeting heads of states