And there was also a debate -- there was a debate here in the United States and quite frankly throughout most of the West as whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.
"These words are an admonishment to unrealistic fantasies at home and abroad... with the continued European debt crisis, the vigorous development of China's economy has also made more people in the West see the value of the 'China model', " the newspaper's editor, Zhang Hong, said.
For the first time in years, Uighurs from the west of China, the traditional money-changers, have reappeared on the streets of Beijing, and people are eager to buy dollars from them.
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The government of Gansu province in China's west says it told the Ministry of Health on July 16th about an unusual upsurge of kidney stones among infants who had all drunk the same brand of milk.
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According to state media reports the director has said he is pulling the films because of bias in the West against productions from communist China.
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According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
Many in the West have a shaky grasp of China's internal power dynamics, but they are confident about one thing - that China is facing a key moment on its path to economic development, and that it will grow into a rich economy only by becoming a lot more like us.
At the moment, accounting in China is a bit like the Wild West of America in the 1800s.
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The Unha-3 rocket blasted off at around 10 AM local time from a space center in the village of Tongchang-ri on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, flew over the East China Sea, the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, and then past the Philippines.
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The cost of living in China is very different from that in the West.
"China's economy is growing at three times the rate of the West, and if that growth continues, China will become the largest economy in the world within the next couple of decades, " Mr Schwarzman said in a statement ahead of the funds launch on Sunday.
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In the absence of any competition from the West, China has cheerfully plundered Myanmar's bountiful reserves of hard wood, jade, oil, gas and much else, usually with little regard for the environment or the well-being of those Burmese who stood in their way.
While most people in the West had never heard of Taobao, its name was heard loud and strong in China.
While Apple is having to apologize for the poor quality of its maps in the West, it is clearly superior to Google Maps in China.
But in fact, there are a number of China tech startups innovating in areas unbeknownst to many in the West. (Virtual goods, which originated in Asia, is a good example.) YY Inc.
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Then in 1978, in a move almost unnoticed in the west, Japan and China signed a treaty of friendship.
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The great task facing the West over the next century will be to make sense of China - not in our terms but in theirs.
Meanwhile, the respective strengths and weaknesses of literature written inside and outside China remain logically self-evident: those in the West enjoy greater freedom to write about politics and the recent past, while those in China have the day-to-day experience to write about the present.
As entrepreneurial as they are, Mr Zhao observes, many small and mid-sized firms in China lack much of what is common in the West, in particular good management, proper accounting and savvy marketing.
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Expect more of China's online characteristics to be adopted in the West.
China's coal is located in the north and west of the country, far from the coastal cities where energy demand is growing strongly.
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Equally, what is China doing building roads, ports and pipelines in Myanmar and Pakistan, connecting west and south-west China with the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean?
With China and India showing faster growth rates than Western economies, research analysts have been bullish about luxury, positing that even if the West slows down, a rise in consumer spending among the newly rich of China, India and other emerging economies will lift the luxury market.
The sage's popularity in the West still owes more to Hollywood, source of much American soft power, than China's own efforts.
Draw a circle around the central city of Mandalay with a radius of just over 700 miles (1, 100km), he writes, and it stretches to the states of West Bengal and Bihar in India, to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, as well as to Tibet, and south to cover most of Laos and Thailand (see map).
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Mortenson claims that he has educated over 60, 000 of young children and mostly girls and built over 170 schools in Karakoram -the north west of Pakistan and the Wakhan valley of Afghanistan near the Russia and China border during the last 17 years.
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