"Conducting Negotiations" Barrsu DIPLOMACY IN Cum, Jo) Kiernan, Fellow of mit University Press. d, "ridge Diplomacy is defined in Webster's Dictionary as "The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations," and in notes to the definition it is referred to as "the business or act of conducting international intercourse, and skill or address in so doing" and again "tact and shrewdness in the management of affairs," Events in China during the period 1880-1885 are inextricably mixed up with Li Hung Chang, the outstanding personality in Chinese political affairs during that time and for many years both before and afterwards. It has been said of him that "as statesman for thirty years he maintained a recognized pre-eminence over his countrymen in the oldest and most populous nation of the earth; and as a diplomat his achievements entitle him to a front rank in the international relations of all history." If this is correct foreign diplomats were faced with none too easy task in dealing with him,
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