1.   Are chilly U.S.-China relations warming slightly?

2.   Chinese-American relations have warmed considerably in the last month, particularly after the recent visit to China by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

3.   After decades of friction, relations have been warming between the two giant neighbors.

4.   As relations have warmed in recent years, China and Vietnam have pledged to work out their land and sea borders.

5.   But both Bush and Jiang suggested this week that U.S.-Chinese relations are warming.

6.   But Chinese-American relations were warming in anticipation of Nixon becoming the first U.S. president to visit China.

7.   But relations have never warmed and there have been spy cases on both sides from time to time.

8.   But relations have never warmed, and there have been spy cases on both sides from time to time.

9.   But relations have warmed recently.

10.   But relations warmed only two years ago, when a new, pro-democracy government took office.