Relations between the two have generally improved over recent years.
Earlier reported cease-fire agreements between the two have failed to check the confrontations, however.
In recent years the line between the two have become increasingly blurred.
Throughout the years, matches between the two have been marked by a kind of opacity.
But wouldn't the struggle between the two have harmed the both of them?
Previous tentative summits between the two have ended in media frenzies.
Discussions between the two have gone nowhere before, and the region is littered with failed attempts at combinations.
The rights were transferred from another German car group, Volkswagen, and relations between the two have been fraught.
But the long personal ties between the two have raised many questions about the serendipity of Timchenko's rise.
But this week, the cricket auction was the latest measure of just how tense relations between the two have become.
In general, those who failed to distinguish between the two have been no match for well-organized, well regulated armies with all their cumbersome cultural accoutrements.
