But the Chinese energy revolution has been quietly gaining strength, observers say.

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For hundreds of millions of Chinese, the information revolution may truly live up to its name.

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As a result of these two major high-technology conflicts waged in the past decade, Chinese military analysts generally recognize and accept that some type of revolution in warfare is afoot.

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The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.

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The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.

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