Like the U.S. and other Western countries, China is determined to diversify its energy supplies away from the volatile Middle East region where it currently gets 60 percent of its oil, to areas in Africa, South America and even North America.

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Though now banned in most Western countries, asbestos is still used in developing countries, mainly in China and India.

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Moreover, in the real world, western democracies trade enthusiastically with countries like China and Indonesia.

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Bar investment is popular in China and India, while exchange-traded fund buying is more popular in Western countries.

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Around the time of the Abbasid dynasty, cross-border trade became extremely active in the Islamic world with merchants acting as mediators for the movement of goods among western and African countries, India, and (later) China.

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Countries like South Korea, Japan, China, and most of western Europe are exposed to the same types of violent videogames Americans are.

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Many observers have also argued that a number of countries have grown rapidly -- Western Europe and Japan before and China today -- without free mobility of private capital, especially of portfolio capital.

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Western missionaries brought grapes and wine to China along with their Bibles as they did in so many other countries.

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The classic philanthropy model (the super rich who devote the rest of their lives to the effective distribution and use of their wealth to alleviate societal ills) is still a long way away for China as it needs to overcome the lack of religious, cultural and historical precedents to philanthropy that is so evident in western countries.

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