The Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. in his welcoming reception said it explicitly with respect to China-U.S. relations 3 weeks ago: "What has been driving our relations is the ever-expanding converging interests between our two countries...together, China and the US account for one-third of the world's economy, one quarter of the world's population, and one-fifth of the world's trade volume.
But as a recent study points out, Africans themselves are actively affecting, shaping, and "sometimes even driving" these relations.
Beyond the state level, and in other countries where data is more readily available, it seems ordinary Africans are sometimes driving these relations.
He said the sanctions were driving bilateral relations towards a "dead end".
Studies provide evidence that reduced nurse staffing resources are associated to an increase in health care-associated infections in intensive care units, but tools to assess the contribution of the mechanisms driving these relations are still lacking.
It is, for instance, unclear which specific health and wellbeing effects of noise are driving the relations observed in hedonic pricing methods.
Based on the characteristics of the sorbent particles, a linear driving force relation has been derived for sorption kinetics.
It could be argued that the forces driving modern international relations emanate on the one hand from western politicians fearing a repetition of that defeat and, on the other hand, the Islamists' desire to regain that victory.
It failed to create new businesses, and thus missed out on computers, microchips, consumer electronics and so on.On the other side of the Atlantic, meanwhile, Jack Welch was driving General Electric GEE, no relation), another big old industrial company, to great heights.
