The Clinton administration cannot create such a tripwire simply by entering into a trilateral peacekeeping arrangement.
Such an alliance, however, cannot be built on a trilateral peacekeeping agreement including Syria.
The U.S. will still be a leading player, but in a septagonal, not a trilateral, world.
It is this trilateral system rather than American power per se that is in decline today.
And there was not part of our agenda a trilateral meeting, so there is no problem.
We just finished an important trilateral meeting among the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mr Medvedev has invested time and effort in what will be his fifth trilateral meeting.
The first two rounds of the trilateral talks were held in Kabul and New York last year.
It will be the third round of discussions since Mr Cameron instigated the trilateral process last year.
This has not only been demonstrated in both bilateral and trilateral relationships, but also in well established multilateral institutions.
But before leaving Ottawa this month, Emilio Goicoechea, Mexico's ambassador, wrote a rebuttal urging Canada to stay the trilateral course.
ECONOMIST: Some Canadians think they are more important than Mexicans
Over the years, the trilateral countries gradually learned how to work with each other and how to accommodate one another's needs.
Despite all the talk of American decline, the countries that face the most painful changes are the old trilateral partners.
While this did not happen solely because of the trilateral accord, economists generally agree that NAFTA has been a significant contributor.
Today's meeting is the second in the trilateral dialogues among our countries.
They flock to elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Trilateral Commission and the Boao meeting in China.
And these trilateral meetings build on efforts being made in the region and in the United States, and they will continue on a regular basis.
After the trilateral Middle East summit, Bush will visit Doha, Qatar, on Thursday to meet with Paul Bremer, the new civilian administrator of Iraq, and Gen.
The U.S. needs to build a similar network of relationships and institutional linkages that we built in postwar Europe and Japan and deepened in the trilateral years.
This is why the original trilateral partners joined the U.S. in promoting it a generation ago, and why the world's rising powers will rally to the cause today.
The main obstacle to trilateral co-operation is that Canada and Mexico are much more interested in their relations with the United States than they are in each other.
Western Europe and Japan were seen as rising powers in the 1970s, and the assumption was that the trilateral partnership would become more powerful and effective as time passed.
Making this a trilateral affair, linking the three countries on the Security Council most opposed to a war, makes it look as if the fight will indeed continue over the peace.
We must convince China that North Korea's actions are creating what Beijing most fears greater U.S. military presence in the region and enhanced trilateral cooperation with Japan and South Korea.
"This trilateral meeting reaffirmed the steps that North Korea should take in order for six-party talks to produce results, " Mrs Clinton said at a joint news conference after the Washington talks.
Although Mr Volcker resumed his banking career on Wall Street after his government service, he continued to serve on various advisory committees, including the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission.
IBM, membership of advisory boards at Citigroup and DaimlerChrysler, and one of the six deputy chairmanships of the Trilateral Commission, the body of grandees which in anti-globalist demonology supposedly runs the planet.
The result today is that the trilateral partnership can no longer serve as the only or perhaps even the chief set of relationships through which the U.S. can foster a liberal world system.
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