But India's potential and its prickliness argue for broadening relations beyond the earlier American obsession with nuclear weapons, and hope that greater trust leads to progress on issues of war and peace.
Congressional approval, however, must be seen as a first step toward broadening relations with the Chinese and pressing them to open their country to democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
However, speaking to reporters after meeting Lukashenko, he said of the summit: "We reached an understanding that it will be an opportunity where we can broaden relations with Belarus".
Democrats in particular have been looking for ways for an Obama presidency to broaden relations with Russia, which they argue have been neglected, except in narrow nuclear matters, by the Bush administration.
He cited steps that his administration had taken to broaden relations between the American and Cuban people, including allowing Cuban-Americans to send money more freely to relatives in Cuba and to travel there more easily.
But even the growth of religious tourism has had a limited effect in broadening cultural relations: Of over 360,000 Iranians coming to Syria in 2008, more than 333,000 were tourists...The example of Iranian pilgrims going to Syria emphasises the limits of interaction.
At the time of the attack, on Sept. 11, 2012, I was the public affairs officer at the Tripoli embassy, responsible for broadening our relations with the new Libya by forging ties between Americans and Libyans.
A few years ago the governments of Turkey and Egypt signed a memorandum of understanding to endorse cooperation and broaden military relations.
Najeeb E. Halaby, president of Pan American World Airways, cited the successive moves that have broadened American relations with the Soviet Union and other East European Communist countries.
The statement did not mention a campaign mounted by the European Union to win the release of prisoners in exchange for an agreement on broadened trade relations that includes provisions on human rights and the rule of law.
"Will we do more to advance the cause of human rights if China is isolated". What the United States policy should be, he added, is "to intensify and broaden its relations" with Beijing, not isolate it.
