These have given Chen a wrong impression of his importance to the US and his individual influence in China.
Whether the Chinese navy projects greater influence in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan because it bullied its way in or because a desperate Japan invited them in is ultimately immaterial if the end result is that Chinese ships can sail more freely and in greater numbers.
There is also an unstated mutual interest in containing China's rising influence in the region.
Mr. WU(ph) SHINBUO(ph) (Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai): The relative importance of this relationship has declined in the last several years, and secondly, I think the U.S. influence over China has declined in the past several years.
In the 21st century, one may view China's influence in the Middle East in a similar vein.
The election will be monitored in China, which wants Greenland's iron for its expanding economy, and in turn by European Union officials who have expressed concern about China's influence in the territory.
Given that China controls the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal, has a major port in Freeport, Bahamas, and is about to obtain a deep water port in Manta, Ecuador, one might conclude that China seeks to expand its influence in America's backyard.
Apart from diversifying its economy, Vietnam clearly hopes America will counter China's influence in the region.
Asia's democracies should also get together with the United States and Australia to discuss ways in which they can influence China's behavior.
It would also be hugely unsettling, obliging America to review its region-stabilising troop commitments in South Korea and Japan, and rekindling old rivalries among China, Japan and Russia for influence in Korea.
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Some protesters advocated independence from China, while others demonstrated against the growing influence of the Han Chinese in the area and other regions of China with ethnic Tibetan populations.
They predict a growth in China's cultural influence, but believe this will take time.
What we do know is that the primary foreign policy imperative for China is its sphere of influence in northeast Asia, not the regime per se.
If we had this additional energy online in addition to developing our renewable energy potential, America would be in a much stronger position to influence China.
Mr. Panetta, who disclosed the naval plans in an address to an annual international security conference here, stressed that the rising U.S. force levels shouldn't be seen as a threat to China but as a stabilizing influence in a rapidly developing region.
Just as they used to worry that Japan's lobbyists were buying too much influence in America, so the same fears now surround China.
Since then the influence in Myanmar of both India and, especially, China has grown, while ASEAN's decision-making and diplomacy have been handicapped by the membership of a government abhorrent to the West.
It has distinguished itself by the virtuosity of its rhythmic patterns (changqiang) and has exerted a dominant influence on all the more recent forms of opera in China, the Sichuan or Beijing opera.
"China is actively introducing its culture and values, and distributing favorable images through its media to achieve its goals of reducing fears of its military strength, developing closer relations with developing nations and expanding its international influence, " Wu wrote in " The Rise of China's State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa" paper, published in June.
China's economic growth and increasing influence in the world enables it to support and even bail out the Bolivarian regime and its allies.
Now unfortunately, China is now suddenly preoccupied with its own natural disasters with its earthquake, but China does have a massive amount of influence in Myanmar to get them to open up a bit more.
But with it went a pattern of global order based on competition between the Soviet Union and America, and also in part on a battle for influence with a rising China within the communist and non-aligned worlds.
Over the past year, China has tried many times to project greater influence in its surrounding seas by way of simple, brute force.
It is still the case that the dollar and the euro play a greater role beyond their natural spheres of influence than does the RMB but that is changing in favor of China.
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Along with China's enhanced investment in Africa comes increasing influence.
The situation is different in East Asia, where the administration is using arms sales as a tool in its campaign to limit the regional influence of a rapidly growing China.
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