India was granted observer status in the SCO last year and while its intentions regarding full membership are unclear at this time, the Russia and China led alliance would allow New Delhi a greater influence in Central Asia, which it desires, and at least ostensible cooperation in counterterrorism efforts.
Ever since Bill Clinton and Ryutaro Hashimoto reaffirmed their security alliance last year, both Japan and America have been at pains to tell China that the alliance is not directed at anyone, only at coping with instability.
Assignments include assessments of acquisition strategy in China and an alliance opportunity in India.
China's alliance with North Korea thus undermines not just its image as a global power but also its own interests.
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Owing to this, it may be difficult for Israel to sustain a bilateral alliance with China over time.
In a direct contradiction to point 1, the pessimists suggest there is no meaningful alliance for China to balance against.
That appalled many Indians, who are already concerned by China's close alliance with Pakistan and perceived meddling in Nepal, Sri Lanka and other areas of traditional Indian sway.
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He is defraying the associated costs with the sale of vast quantities of advanced weaponry to Moscow's ominous new strategic partner, Communist China, in an alliance explicitly hostile to the United States.
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Its diplomatic alliance with China stops it from saying as much as Taiwan would like, and any further self-flagellation over the shooting incident may be read as conceding the disputed Luzon Strait area.
Since 1996 a new corporate alliance called the China Normalisation Initiative has worked out of Boeing's lobbying office in Washington.
The decadeslong alliance between Pakistan and China is based on their mutual animosity toward India.
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Singapore Airlines may also invest in China Airlines in Taiwan, an alliance that would improve its trans-Pacific services.
In China, for example, where Alliance Boots formed a joint venture five years ago with Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corp.
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When China and North Korea formed their alliance, the countries were both poor, weak, resentful, isolated, and the target of cold-war containment by the United States and its allies.
That country still sees the American-Japanese alliance as an attempt to encircle China.
At the same time, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member Chris Redfield arrives in China, itself under threat of a bioterrorist attack.
China's leaders are not a sentimental lot, and if they cling to an alliance with the North Korean regime it must be because they believe it in China's interests.
Soong, who was born in Hunan, China, was ambitious and readily agreed to the alliance.
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Nanjing is the fifth-largest drug wholesaler in China with a network of nearly 350 pharmacies, Alliance Boots and Nanjing said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the gradual deregulation of China's book market raises hopes of a strategic alliance or outright sale.
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He foresaw that we would eventually have to confront the Iranian and Syrian regimes, and he was one of the first to point out the intercontinental anti-American alliance involving Iran, Syria, Russia, China, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras and Nicaragua.
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AND, these deals were under the watch of TDF Capital, which formed an alliance in 2007 with Kleiner to set up KPCB China.
The Center further urges the withdrawal of U.S. and alliance bank participation in any private syndicated loans to China, bond offerings, inter-bank deposit relationships, or bank-to-bank credits.
Gary Bauer, an influential religious agitator, this year took up China-bashing for the first time, and made an alliance with his ideological foes in the trade unions to oppose Chinese access to American markets.
Currently, Alliance Boots has a 50-50 joint venture in China known as Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals, which is the sixth-largest drug wholesaler in China.
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China's main fear is the overt rebuilding of a military alliance - the sort of move that would give a psychological boost to independence-minded people in Taiwan.
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