In a world that the U.S. no longer dominates as it once did, President Barack Obama has sought to forge strong relations with rising powers like India and Brazil.
This highlighted one of the main criticisms of Blair's supporters – that Miliband has made Labour unelectable by failing to forge strong relations with business.
But are large weapons deals the only way to forge strong relations?
The party believes that Molyneaux was double crossed by Downing Street which forged stronger relations with the Irish government in the early stages of the peace process.
Mr. Lee is the son of Lee Kuan Yew, the longtime leader of Singapore who forged strong relations with China and the United States and successfully balanced his small city-state between the two, and his views carry considerable weight among the Chinese elite.
in the early 1980s before forming his own strategic consulting firm, Plepler has forged strong relations with both the Hollywood production community and New York's intellectual elite.
But almost two decades after a crumbling Soviet Union hastily withdrew financial and ideological backing from Cuba, Russia is seeking to expand economic ties with the island and possibly forge stronger military relations in an echo, as yet still faint, of an alliance that lasted some 30 years.
But a decade and a half after a crumbling Soviet Union hastily withdrew financial and ideological backing from Cuba, Russia is seeking to expand economic ties with the island and possibly forge stronger military relations in an echo, as yet still faint, of an alliance that lasted some 30 years.
The British prime minister is set to make a second visit to India, in a bid to forge stronger business relations between the two nations.
"Within Europe, we want to catalyze research collaborations and forge stronger links between the main players".
