1.   After two years of trench warfare and seven months of cautious dialogue, Eritrea and its giant neighbor, Ethiopia, are emerging from lengthy war.

2.   But in the last year, it began to tilt perceptibly toward its giant neighbor, China.

3.   But Russia and Iran happen to be giant neighbors that the poor Central Asian states have to live with, and which offer reasonably cheap access to world markets.

4.   China, too, a giant neighbor, is historically distrusted by Central Asians.

5.   For Rwanda, the security threat from its giant neighbor is a matter of national survival.

6.   For some time now, Eastern European nations have been uncoupling themselves from their giant neighbor to the east and refocusing westward.

7.   It is art, as well, that at times shudders at the prospect of impending unity with the giant totalitarian neighbor to the north.

8.   Japan, in turn, does not want to offend its giant neighbor, though it also wants to help maintain stability in the area.

9.   Russia has already moved to warm relations with China, settling the last territorial disputes with its giant neighbor.

10.   Rubin cautioned reporters, though, against expecting the Shepherdstown talks to resolve all the differences between Israel and its giant Arab neighbor.