People-to-people relations underpin state-to-state relations.

国家关系归根结底是人民之间的关系。

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State-to-state relations ultimately rely on the support of the people and serve the people.

国与国关系归根结底需要人民支持，最终也服务于人民。

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He said that economic and trade cooperation is the economic basis for state-to-state relations.

他说，经贸合作是国家关系的经济基础。

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On Jan. 30, in my "Seven Point Position on Relations with China, " we indicated that if the DPP became the ruling party of Taiwan, we would not propose to put President Lee Teng-hui's description of "special state-to-state relations" into the Constitution.

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Professional men, merchants, lawyers, scientists and revolutionaries all sought to wrest the business of inter-state relations away from monarchs, despots, generals and a diplomatic corps heaving with aristocrats, and onto a more rational, technocratic footing.

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