He brushes off the fact that his newstrategicpartner operates in the U.S. while the Justice Department takes the position that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law.
Underwriters argue that a young company would do better to set aside shares for a newstrategic partner--instead of handing out a bonus to investors who have already made a bundle.
He is defraying the associated costs with the sale of vast quantities of advanced weaponry to Moscow's ominous newstrategicpartner, Communist China, in an alliance explicitly hostile to the United States.
Even more relevant to China's calculations than the kid-glove treatment the United States is giving China's new-found "strategic partner" - Russia - however, is the message being sent by the administration when Mr. Clinton promises to "do whatever it takes" to secure congressional approval of permanent trading status for China.
Then, too, it is important to consider how these achievements are weathering the US's new commitment to engage Damascus as a strategicpartner, and what their current status bodes for the future of the region.