Critics, including vital party allies from the trade unions and the Communist Party, complained of a sellout.
China is also keen to protect its big economic investments in northern Myanmar, including vital oil and gas pipelines.
Much of the country's infrastructure is damaged or in need of repair, including vital oil installations on whose services Libya's short-term salvation rests.
Twenty pages on, the document says the UK will continue to work with close allies, including "vital partners, such as Saudi Arabia, in the Middle East".
That hospital is focusing on clinical applications, like superimposing information about a patient, including vital signs and medical images, onto a surgeon's field of view.
Correction: Americans in Iraq ReprintsNigeria earlier this year set aside an emergency fund of $150m to improve its airports, including vital navigational equipment and runways.
Commissioners have become ornamental, and the pressure was to delegate more and more to managers, including vital decisions on whether the IPCC should get involved in a complaint investigation.
"The start of the new academic year is less than a year away and many key aspects of the reforms – including vital support for students – are currently out for consultation.
Nevertheless, there was heartening progress on other issues, including vital cost-effective mechanisms that will allow nations to trade emissions credits on the open market and claim credit for investing in clean-fuel projects abroad.
Cairncross smuggled many decrypted German communiqués to the Soviets, including vital messages on army movements on the Eastern Front that helped the Red Army to prepare for the Germans' huge tank offensive at the Battle of Kursk (July August 1943).
But around 40 of the items on that shopping list have yet to be met, including vital ones like the ability to "suppress enemy air defences" and the provision of heavy-lift aircraft.
