diplomatic exchanges
Official government correspondence
Diplomatic exchanges are formal communications or interactions between governments or their representatives.
The term covers a range of activities: negotiations, official correspondence, state visits, or the trading of ambassadors between countries.
The phrase often appears in news coverage of international relations: Diplomatic exchanges between the two nations have grown tense.
An exchange of diplomats specifically refers to countries swapping embassy personnel, sometimes as part of resolving a dispute.
- telegramsWired text messages
- ambassadorsOfficial diplomatic representatives
- pactsFormal binding agreements
- envoysOfficial diplomatic representatives
- communiquésFormal official announcements
accords · summits · trade agreements · border disputes · negotiators · dispatches · back channels · mediators · treaty negotiations · foreign ministers · exhibitions · correspondence · language programs · charters · consuls · peace treaties · cultural festivals · embassies
diplomatic exchangescasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
personal correspondence · water cooler chat · small talk · gossip · water cooler talk
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Armed force by state
armed conflict · warfare · hostile acts · sanctions · economic warfare
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Declarations of intended harm
insults · shouting matches · inflammatory rhetoric · saber-rattling · provocations
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