China has said the confrontation could damage bilateral relations, showing the sensitivity of the territorial dispute, one of several that trouble China's relations with its Asian neighbors.
The video acknowledged the lack of progress and the failures in Mr. Obama's outreach to Iran since the Nowruz message he sent a year ago, when he was offering a new approach to bilateral relations based on diplomacy instead of confrontation.
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Finally, the United States is China's most important bilateral partner, and China seems unlikely to pursue a strategic confrontation for mere monetary gain.
There is a shared determination by the American and Saudi leaderships to mend their historical bilateral relationship, and to save it from deteriorating into a confrontation or declining to new lows.
The reasons for failure in all the approaches share a common thread: Iran shrank from any broad bilateral thaw because it feared engagement with the United States more than it feared confrontation.
Most observers believe that bilateral ties will suffer but that the GOI will use diplomatic pressure rather than military confrontation to respond to the Mumbai attacks.
Bilateral relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been fraught with hostility, tension and confrontation.
Confrontation is inevitable".
"He wants that confrontation.
