> On Nov 15, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Mark Blackman <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you say that the current administrations of China, the US and Russia > observe diplomatic norms in general?
Yes, certainly. It’s the exceptions that draw attention. Which is exactly the
purpose of the norm: to make exceptions notable.
> Possibly some norms are better than none, but I am not so sure.
This is interesting, because several people on the UKNOF list are expressing
similar views, and in a year of working on it, we haven’t heard this from
anyone else. Can you expand a little? You prefer the status-quo? You see a
danger in normalizing non-aggression? What’s the danger or problem that you’re
considering?
-Bill
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