61.   China has become increasingly entangled in the rift between its old communist ally, North Korea, and its new trade partner, South Korea.

62.   China is a major trade partner of Australia, which is keen to forge closer economic ties with Asian countries.

63.   China is a major trade partner of Australia.

64.   China, sandwiched in the crisis between the North, a longtime socialist ally, and South Korea, an important trade partner, called for a speedy resolution.

65.   Chretien, in New Zealand for a meeting of Commonwealth countries, did not deny that Canada spied on its trade partners.

66.   Clinton also promised to name a special envoy to try to resolve the dispute with the EU and other major U.S. trade partners.

67.   China, for its part, is becoming an important trade partner for Russia and a lucrative customer for its aerospace and defense industries.

68.   Cuba was plunged into economic crisis with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the loss of former socialist trade partners a decade ago.

69.   Croatia and Serbia were once the biggest trade partners in the former Yugoslavia.

70.   Cuba still is struggling to recover from an economic crisis that started when the former Soviet bloc collapsed and the communist island lost its most important trade partners.