Sure enough, Canberra has approved a string of Chinese equity stakes this year, many of them in the natural resources sector.
The first meeting of his new cabinet, on May 21st, approved a string of measures that made unauthorised entry into Italy a crime, introduced discriminatory sentencing for illegal aliens and imposed draconian penalties on Italians who provide accommodation to migrants without papers.
The plan, which is set to be approved later this week, borrows liberally from a string of previous government initiatives that similarly promised to bolster the economy, including his own.
McConnell is expected to move quickly on several fronts, such as approving a budget and passing a string of modest bills with bipartisan support on such issues as approving the Keystone XL pipeline, boosting international trade talks and tweaking the Affordable Care Act.
"I wanted to step up the pace – we needed to do more," he says, before rattling off a string of newly approved initiatives designed to get England building again.
Grigory Pasko, the defendant in one of Russia's longest-running and most celebrated treason cases, was reported today to have given a bitter and defiant closing statement to a Vladivostok judge in his second trial, assailing the evidence against him as a string of officially approved fabrications.
Democratic legislators, for instance, approve of the death penalty moratorium, which followed a string of death row inmates being freed because evidence showed they were innocent.
Britain's parliament approved gay marriage earlier this year - the final step in a string of recent law changes designed to bring about equality - with the first civil ceremonies expected in the spring of 2014.
She nods to you, then yells to some boy down the block: "What the F!" and she's off on a string of words and references you don't approve of.
This study used a string of vertical smoke layer measuring instruments composed of several approved photoelectric smoke detectors, as well as a light attenuation measuring device composed of illuminance meters to conduct tests on the effect of makeup air.
Holder drew more fire for his role in approving the clemency request for 16 members of the radical Puerto Rican independence group FALN, convicted of a string of terrorist bombings and murders.
