Few are convinced that this signifies real change in China's dismissive attitude towards democracy in Hong Kong.
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For the longer term, encouraging a free flow of information will be key to fostering democratic change in China.
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Another big change in China in recent years, however, has been the central government's diminishing grip on the actions of local officials.
"It's going to take a whole culture change in China, " Schmidt says.
Back in 1997, we and others expressed the hope that, in time, Hong Kong might act as a catalyst for political change in China.
Mr Wang's unusually heavy sentence was clearly intended as a warning to activists abroad hoping for political change in China to keep well away.
Although rebalancing has so far been driven mainly by changes in Western markets, economic reforms will be critical for furthering change in China, says Yiping.
"Trade is a force for change in China, exposing China to our ideas and our ideals, and integrating China into the global economy, " Clinton said.
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Threats and ranting from Washington risk merely fortifying hard-line opponents of change in China at a time when slowing growth has put its leaders on the defensive.
But a Chinese foreign-ministry spokesman said this week that he had not heard of any change in China's policy of helping North Korea cope with its shortages of food and energy.
The mock-epic story ends in 1990, but nothing really has happened: inner lives are stunted, inert passivity prevails, and, Jia suggests, the decade of tumultuous change in China was merely a convulsive emptiness.
It would indeed be ironic if a change in China's exchange-rate policy came not as a result of American pressure, but from China's own disillusion with the dollar as an international reserve currency.
Things change quickly in China, however, and many of the impediments to overseas acquisitions are being removed.
The broad sweep of global change, including in China, where he took multiple lecture tours, continues to move in his direction.
While the short term macro situation remains uncertain with the US elections, a change of government in China and the ongoing crisis in Europe, Expedia claims not to have had any adverse effect on its brand due to the above factors, which is impressive.
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But times will eventually change for nationalised firms in China and for those in the West, too.
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First, this may signal a potential change in growth strategy in China.
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While the past approach was to use low-cost labor in China, the new factories, many of which are managed by outsiders, use increasing levels of automation, which will change the employment patterns in China.
All signs, though, now point to a change in policy and a potential change in the headlines coming out of China.
Others include changes in the sun, cruddy air from China, and a change in stratospheric water vapor.
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Alternatively, are China's leaders bent on "nipping in the bud" any domestic call for democratic change - even in highly autonomous Hong Kong where such change is anticipated under China's own laws - that is not of their own making.
Just as prosperity has helped dampen demands in eastern China for political change, officials reckon it can also silence separatism in the west.
Seen this way, the ascendancy of youth in China implies an even more profound change than in America.
But analysts say that CCTV's expansion in Africa is a way for Beijing to change the narrative of China's involvement in Africa from one of exploitation to one of opportunity -- China's deepening engagement with Africa is often portrayed as pillaging the resource-rich continent, giving very little in return.
But the big change is that in 2008, China accounted for just about 2 or 3% of the global seaborne market for metallurgical coal.
"Chinese sportswear brands are facing, as are foreign brands, a change in consumer buying habits in China, particularly the increasing popularity of casual wear, " said Headland Capital's Raffini.
Here, China is the catalyst, but the change affects how tiger companies are situated not in China, but in third-country markets or at home.
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