[Retracted] A Quantitative Analysis of Country Relations in Foreign Direct Investment

Table 3

Statistics on the relationship expressions between China and other countries.

Relationship expressions	Number	Keywords	Frequency
Comprehensive strategic partnership	36	Partnership	79
Strategic partnership	12	Strategic	69
Comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership	10	Comprehensive	58
Comprehensive and cooperative partnership	6	Cooperative	27
Strategic cooperative partnership	4	Friendly	4
Comprehensive friendly and cooperative partnership	2	Reciprocal	2
Friendly partnership	2	Innovation	1
Strategic cooperative partnership	1	Development	1
Innovation comprehensive partnership	1	Coordination	1
Development partnership	1	Global	1
Reciprocal strategic partnership	1	All-weather	1
Comprehensive strategic cooperation relationship	1	All-round	1
Comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination	1
Global comprehensive strategic partnership	1
All-weather strategic cooperative partnership	1
All-round cooperative partnership	1
Strategic cooperation relations	1
Strategic reciprocal relations	1
Total	83

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. (Quoted on 14 July 2020).