strategic partner

基本解释

But since the West does not want to be seen to lose the war, it remains reliant on Mr Karzai, the only “strategic partner” on offer.
不过，由于西方国家并不想让人们认为他们打了败战，因此他们只有继续依靠唯一可供选择的战略伙伴—卡尔扎伊。
In Asia, for example, the rise of China is balanced by the rise of India, which America is striving to turn into a strategic partner.
比如，在亚洲，印度的崛起平衡了中国的崛起，美国正努力把印度变成一个战略伙伴。
The government, which hopes to place the company with a “strategic partner” by next February, simply wants to extricate itself from the mess with the minimum of humiliation.
政府寄希望于来年二月将宝腾公司放置在“战略伙伴”的位置上，只想多少留点脸面，从这滩烂泥中抽脚出来。

And Russia,the U.S.partner on strategic arms reduction and in the effort to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, has not been at all happy about that.

Let me be clear: Egypt is a critical, strategic partner of the United States.
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Pakistan is an important strategic partner and a key ally to the United States.
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It thus needed a strategic partner with whom it could carry out development work.
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