They regard China as an uneasy, prickly neighbor with superpower ambitions.
Tensions between the two East African countries, which have long been uneasy neighbors, began rising last year.
It has also turned everyone into uneasy neighbors.
Over the last few years much has changed: the United States and Mexico are no longer just uneasy neighbors.
To her east, Iraq, always an uneasy neighbor.
In the early 1940's, two families, one black, one white, become uneasy neighbors on the grounds of a former Virginia plantation.
But Western diplomats said it was no more pronounced than in other periods of heightened tensions between the uneasy neighbors.
And the uncertainty has left some neighbors of the plant, 35 miles north of Manhattan, deeply uneasy.
As in many of the recent museum additions, old and new, past and present, are uneasy neighbors.
Iran's uneasy neighbors, analysts say, may be positioning themselves to do the same.