There is no direct relation between official website of a company and its Facebook page, although they can of course be connected by a hyperlink.
Boris Johnson, the London mayor, has rejected allegations of over-cosy relations between officials and a Chinese company chosen to run a multibillion-pound development project in London, also denying any knowledge of claims that the firm which won the contract was involved in forced evictions in Beijing.
But whether United States companies can turn that potential into profits will depend on more than warm relations between officials in their capitals; it will depend on how they finesse the particular challenges of the new market — especially, competition from their Russian counterparts.
It was concluded from a literature review, interviews and site visits that informal arrangements dominate the sector, especially in Cameroon, leading to poor relations between officials and miners and meaning that miners have few rights and no voice.
Worse, said the individual, officials were told that relations between state officials and regulators at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the power generators, had grown so testy that the two sides were unable to work together.
The Oakland killing is further straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters.
According to testimony, one reason for the clubby relations between state officials and Parsons engineers and public relations consultants was the state's almost desperate need to attract a bidder.
But Democratic and Republican lawmakers said today that the administration had not done enough to coordinate the efforts of federal agencies with overlapping jurisdiction or to smooth frayed relations between federal officials and their state and local counterparts.
A startlingly frank new report from the Communist Party's inner sanctum describes a spreading pattern of "collective protests and group incidents" arising from economic, ethnic and religious conflicts in China and says relations between party officials and the masses are "tense, with conflicts on the rise".
David Cameron's criticisms of the BBC over its "Wigan Pier" coverage of the Autumn Statement can be seen in a broader context: departing Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards complained to this newspaper last week of the cosy relations between Government officials and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp as it sought to outgun the BBC by taking full control of BSkyB.
