We will start a new start with this relationship and we will continue with this relationship.

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And Mr Prentis said he hoped Tony Blair's speech represented a fresh start in terms of the relationship between unions and New Labour.

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And do you also, when this is signed, do you hope to use START as sort of a new sense of symbolism for other aspects of this important relationship?

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At the same time, many in the West do not appreciate the fact that the world order has indeed changed, and that China needs to be treated as more of an equal if the relationship is going to have any chance of getting off to a new start.

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