Its erstwhile friend China, struggling to keep a grip on its restive regions, has expressed "concern".
Deaccsession: To dis an erstwhile friend relentlessly, in the hopes that he will unfriend you.
So was his refusal to support the Iraqi war of his erstwhile friend and ally, George Bush.
PRESIDENT BUSH said last week of his erstwhile "friend" Vladimir Putin, "I have no idea what he's going to do".
After the first volume, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, his erstwhile friend Madonna ceased to speak to him.
While Mr. Berlusconi has condemned Colonel Qaddafi, he does not seem to have had a perceptible impact on his erstwhile friend.
Ms. Brooks, 43, is a confidante of Mr. Murdoch and an erstwhile friend of Mr. Cameron, who attended her wedding to Mr. Brooks in 2009.
The fight between the casino magnate Stephen A. Wynn and his erstwhile friend and business partner, Kazuo Okada, is a war over money, and lots of it.
Although the defense called witnesses to testify about a falling out between the two men, Mr. Gupta will now be rooting for his erstwhile friend to succeed.
It came from an unexpected source: the seemingly mild-mannered Geoffrey Howe, erstwhile friend and political soulmate of his target, Margaret Thatcher.
And thanks to the moves of his erstwhile friend, that appears to be a more accurate prediction than he could have imagined.
