Still, by the end of Mr Chen's term, relations with the United States, Taiwan's protector, were badly strained, too.
Under the current Ukrainian president, Viktor A. Yushchenko, an Orange leader who lost his bid for another term, relations with Russia had grown so tense that the Russians would not send an ambassador to Kiev.
It is also necessary to explore implicit benefits of crowdsourcing such as marketing, public relation, intelligence, building long-term relation with participants, and probably most importantly shifting locus of cost of ideation from firms to crowds.
New Delhi has had good long-term relations with many of the Arctic Council members.
Most of them prefer to build stable longer-term relations with a limited number of suppliers.
They discuss tactics and long-term relations with the civil population, of course, but money often comes up, just as in the United States Army.
"This is Saudi Arabia's crowning glory in its short-term relations with the United States," said Raad Alkadiri, a director at PFC Energy, a Washington consulting group.
All the while, for strictly selfish reasons, well-run companies will strive for friendly long-term relations with employees, suppliers and customers.
But the State Department is concerned about longer-term relations with Yemen as a potential strategic partner in the Persian Gulf region, and worried that too tough an attitude might impede rather than enhance chances of solving the case.
Despite an increasingly difficult and unpopular relationship with the United States, he reiterated his party's conviction to fight terrorism and develop good long-term relations with neighboring Afghanistan, and the United States and other regional actors.
