新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/01/10

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi

Coming up：

--Countries along the Lancang-Mekong River eye stronger ties

--Billions of deals have been inked as China, France agreed to further advance partnership¹

--Huawei fails to clinch² smartphone deal with AT&T

--Unusual virus strains cause flu outbreak in China

For more on this, we are joining on the line by Zha Wen, associate professor at institute of international relations, China Foreign affairs University；Dr. Yahia H. ZOUBIR, Professor of International Studies & International Management，Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School；Dr. Chen Yuxin, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing Gulou Hospital.

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 clinch   

v.敲弯，钉牢；确定；扭住对方 [参]clench

参考例句：

• Clinch the boards together.用钉子把木板钉牢在一起。
• We don't accept us dollars,please Swiss francs to clinch a deal business.我方不收美元，请最好用瑞士法郎来成交生意。