China is North Korea's economic lifeline, providing nearly all of its fuel and most of its trade.
People in high places control smuggling (of cigarettes, weapons and people), long an economic lifeline for the country.
That means it won't abandon Pyongyang and cut the economic lifeline it provides.
It has become the Iranian regime's economic lifeline by allowing the mullahs to use Turkish markets to bypass the UN sanctions regime.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Cuba's economic lifeline was suddenly cut with dramatic consequences: there were blackouts, food shortages, no fuel.
Yet, by playing with the denial of the only economic lifeline left to millions of unemployed, this is precisely what the GOP is doing.
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It may have to be pumped into Europe through Turkey, providing Cyprus with an economic lifeline and a chance for reconciliation, our correspondent says.
North Korea has an economic lifeline to China, but scholars who have interviewed North Korean refugees report contempt, tinged with envy, for their giant neighbour.
That is, they were planning strategic strikes against Egypt's economic lifeline.
The village's economic lifeline, tourism, dies in the winter months.
The results at Maytag--300 layoffs in the past 18 months and warnings last month that the flagship laundry machine factory is in deep trouble--have sent town leaders on a desperate scramble to secure a new economic lifeline.
UN's oil-for-food programme has stopped, along with the customs revenues that have been the two governments' lifeline, an economic crisis looms.
The reclusive North Korean government and its young leader, Kim Jong Un, are more likely to listen to China, its main economic and diplomatic partner and lifeline to the outside world, than anyone else.
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