Under Correa, Ecuador has been deepening commercial and political ties with US rivals, including Iran, Russia and China.
New Delhi is at odds with Washington on issues ranging from Afghanistan to climate change, and it is deepening commercial ties with Iran just as America is tightening sanctions.
The deepening commercial battle with the United States has only accelerated China's drive to reduce reliance on the American market, especially in technology.
The tit-for-tat bombings signaled the collapse of the relationship between Syria and Turkey, which had blossomed before the Arab revolutions with deepening commercial and political ties between the two countries.
Brazil has deepened commercial ties with China, its largest importer, but Russia accounted for only about 2 percent of China's trade in 2011, and China and India have no bilateral trade agreements.
He has made Vietnam a test case of his proposition that deepening commercial ties create a powerful gravitational pull that can draw former enemies, even hard-line Communist governments, into gradual alignment with the West.
Those to benefit under the so-called high level prosperity partnership, aimed at increasing trade and investment between the two countries, and deepening commercial links, include Equity for Africa, a UK-based organisation that provides finances to small agricultural businesses in Tanzania, which will receive £3.3m.
Building on a strong legacy of bipartisanship regarding U.S.-Africa policy, the Obama Administration deepened commercial ties on the continent, including through initiatives like Power Africa (designed to double electricity access in the region) that garnered broad Republican support.
Further, China is plotting an economic future that largely looks away from the U.S. ― through regional free trade agreements in East Asia, building out a revived Silk Road trading route that stretches across Eurasia from Beijing to Istanbul and deepening commercial ties with Africa.
