cosying up

It is not the only inscrutable country to be cosying up to the inscrutable private-equity industry.

Like North Korea, it has borne isolation and rhetorical hostility from the West by cosying up to the neighbours, notably China.

Cosying up to the new money, therefore, could be one way of turning potential competitors into investment partners.

The West Bengal opposition is now relishing the chance to accuse the commies of cosying up to capitalists at the expense of the peasantry.

Even the cosying up to Poland was motivated by realisation that the previous chill blocked the path to broader co-operation with the EU.

And if realpolitik dictates, India is perfectly capable of cosying up to a dictatorship, such as the Burmese military junta.

Why post-apartheid South Africa, once a shining beacon of human rights, is cosying up to nasty regimes around the world.

Unions with the power to negotiate might spend more time representing their members and less cosying up to politicians, he says.

Its companies are "colonising" swathes of Africa and Latin America, cosying up to regimes Westerners shun.

But as President Juan Manuel Santos said last week, while cosying up to the Chinese, "Asia is the world economy's new motor" .

The cosying-up between political power and private capital is the latest step in a process that began in 2002.

It is criticised in America and Europe for cosying up to a dictatorship.

The Iranians and the Chinese started cosying up in the late 1990s.

This cosying up between India and America makes China all the more prickly.

China, which has built a big embassy in Malabo, the island capital, is cosying up too.

Big media firms and investors are cosying up to social-networking websites