closer ties

Closer ties to China could set up Japan as more of a buffer between the U. S. and China, and less of a protectorate of the United States.

Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, all on the Pacific coast, are more open economies trying to forge closer ties.

It is up to us as people seeking closer ties to try to understand Beijing survival techniques in context.

Provided that we work hard at it , our economic development will undoubtedly benefit from closer ties with the Mainland .

But change did happen to Macau in terms of its booming economy, its brand new look and its ever closer ties with the Mainland.

Establishing business relations between us will be to our mutual benefit. I have no doubt that it will bring about closer ties between us.

He said closer ties to China's giant economy would reduce regional tension and help Taiwan's development.

And all, with the possible exception of Georgia, see closer ties with the EU as a way of diversifying risks rather than antagonising Russia.

He says the American president also had a strategic goal, hoping to counteract the influence of the Soviet Union with closer ties to China.

Japan's new government had been emphasizing closer ties with China, and distancing itself from the United States.

Strauss-Kahn said the IMF values China's status and role and would like to build closer ties with the country.

Pacific Industries are willing to explore with your corporation the possibility of even closer ties through joint ventures.

Taiwan's stock market has jumped nearly 15 per cent in a few days at the prospect of closer ties.

I have no doubt that it will bring about closer ties between us.

Mexico has had a very different experience because its economy has closer ties to the industrialised world.

Concerned about all this, America wants closer ties with Tajikistan.

If he is gone, a figure with closer ties to the security establishment is likely to become president. The Mubarak era would then truly end.

The CFR reckons there is now a chance for the two countries to build much closer ties, despite their differing interests.

Reports from China say that Chinese want closer ties between China and the U. S. and Western Europe.

But its influence waned in recent decades as it focused on building closer ties with United States and Europe.

George Bush saw democratic India as a counterweight to China; India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, also wanted closer ties.

Nevertheless, for initial volunteer buy-in, it may actually have closer ties to Wikipedia.

There are closer ties, mutual political support and successful economic cooperation between the two countries.

JAL is looking for a boost from closer ties with alliance partner American Airlines.

With accelerating economic globalization, China has forged increasingly closer ties with the outside world in the field of energy.

"During several months of co-operation, both of us decided to forge closer ties and so we reached this acquisition deal, " Guo said.

TT: As China develops closer ties with Taiwan, it threatens to breach a ring of US allies that effectively contain China.

Mr. Yurgens called Mr. Putin's announcement a 'slap in the face' to Russian intellectuals who generally long for closer ties with the West.

Branch managers often have closer ties to local officials and businessmen than to their own bosses, which breeds corruption.

The Fund aims to build closer ties between business and higher education institutions, helping turn ideas into enterprise.

Law-makers in Byeloruse have elected a former Communist Party official who favors closer ties with Russia as the new head of state.

In some cases, larger firms did internalize certain processes as well as build closer ties with key subcontractors.

Mr Ma was elected in May on a platform of economic growth stemming from closer ties with mainland China.

The impetus for the closer ties is their status as the world's fastest growing large economies.

Many of the pilgrims are loyal to an underground church which claims closer ties with Rome than the state-approved Catholic church.

Both India and Washington have been building closer ties in recent years.

A small but vociferous movement wants independence and closer ties with South America.

Some top Latvians, including an ex-prime minister, are cultivating closer ties with Russia.

But to others, closer ties between China's roaring economy and the world's poorest continent represents a worrying trend.

Others were fearful of what closer ties to China would mean.

We would thereby inaugurate a new era of closer ties with continental Europeans.

They hope the joint sponsorship of World Cup would promote closer ties with DPRK.

Closer ties to China require some semblance of trust.

In the past few months, it has formed closer ties to Europe.

What could be the harm for countries such as China, India, Pakistan and others to develop closer ties with Nato?

He is considered a threat to Mr. Ma because both support closer ties to China.

Gosh, Mr. Noggenfogger, I know you wouldn't want to damage your reputation as a neutral trade entity by forming closer ties to the Horde!

In fact, you are developing closer and closer ties all throughout Asia.

Its export-oriented firms want to lock in closer ties with end-customers.

Chairman post for Ma sign of closer ties.

A push to build closer ties with faster-growing developing countries could help long term.

it seeks closer ties with democratic india and recently formalised a security alliance of sorts , only japan ' s second , with australia

To mark the beginning of closer ties

US, Canada, Mexico Agree to Forge Closer Ties