... of ensuring successful negotiations of peace treaties and ceasefire agreements. This process is also critical in building coalitions in support of the balance of power. Another function is that of intelligence gathering, where ambassadors collect information about the host state, its conditions, developments and policies, and report them directly to the home government. This is important in providing the ... home government with information and advice for the formulation of policies towards that host country. This has become increasingly complicated with the expansion of the scope of for...

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... of the time, anyone who could have driven a chariot productively must have been highly skilled. Simply maintaining a supply of horses requires horse traders, breeders, and trainers. These specialists were probably foreign as well. This implies that there was some commerce between China and the "barbarian" nations during this time: it would have been close to impossible to acquire the skills required ... Chinese, in their drive for excellence and individuality, kept off of the backs of horses largely because they considered themselves above the people who rode. That very same pride and i...

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... more about out own issues. Don't get me wrong, if there is a major problem, or we are asked to keep peace, or we are going to be directly impacted by a foreign country's goings on, that is one thing. But if we are spending money that could be used for research to pay people to figure out what China is doing, when ... person, or group of people, to say that they are the supreme race in the world? Mankind is a warped entity which allows itself to say these things. Sometimes I think the intelligence we were given was a curse rather than a blessing with some of the things that we choose to ...

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