Excerpted from China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, published by Oxford University Press.
Wasserstrom, a professor of history at UC Irvine, is the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
"Chongqing is to China in the 21st century what Chicago was to America in the 19th, " Mr. Cameron said during a speech at Chongqing University.
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One thing that I was relieved to discover when I reached the end of the book was that, while I certainly gained new insights into many specific issues from reading it, nothing I came across in Awakening Giants caused me to wish I could go back and alter fundamentally anything about my own brief treatment of China-India comparisons in China in the 21st Century.
Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily says parents have been questioning why Meiji refuse to recall the same products in China, while 21st Century Business Herald suggests that the problem could actually lie on "parallel traded" stocks.
In the 21st century, one may view China's influence in the Middle East in a similar vein.
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, the people of both China and the United States want to see further progress in our relations and people around the globe want to see greater prosperity in the world.
Yet, the problem for many other places that are emblematic of an old Beijing is that, in 21st-century China, they are caught in the middle of a collision between history and modernity.
It is China's extraordinary human resources that will lift it to its rightful destiny of leadership and widely held prosperity in the 21st century.
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