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In the diplomacy of yesteryear few things jolted the status quo more than the arrival of several new monarchs at roughly the same time. Ambassadors were frantically dispatched to get the measure of the young rulers, alliances were tested, successions rethought, armies and navies readied. Sometimes the result was war; at other times a sumptuous choreographed display of peacocking, as when Henry VIII of England met François I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Nowadays diplomacy is conducted somewhat differently. The leaders of the world can talk to each other within hours of taking over, and few of them begin those negotiations by offering their daughter’s hand in marriage. All the same, international relations in 2013 will have the same feel, especially for Barack Obama, as America’s re-elected president takes the measure of China’s newly enthroned leader, Xi Jinping, as well as of Angela Merkel’s increasingly federal Europe.