goodwill

But this month, soldiers on each side exchanged gifts of sweets on the Hindu festival of Diwali, "marking a gesture of goodwill", said Yu Jing, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in India.

Carney has taken a softer tone than Ford, trying to build goodwill with the U.S.

That view echoes Europe’s habit of seeing Jews not as citizens with agency but as objects of history, dependent on their hosts’ goodwill.

That small exchange, repeated across America, becomes a rehearsal for citizenship: an exercise in courage, respect and confidence in the goodwill of others.

“I thought it was remarkable,” she said, “that the U.S. government decided, ‘Oh, we should send a baseball team to Japan to help repair relations and for goodwill.’