But if China continues to consolidate its economic and political power, its assertiveness will likely grow, which will leave U.S. influence on China increasingly limited.
Glencore said China is reviewing its proposed merger with Xstrata with a focus on whether the combined company would exert too much influence on China's copper market.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post says China's influence on North Korea is limited and the US, not China, is ultimately the key player in defusing the crisis on the peninsula.
"I hope these students will have an influence on the future of China, " he says.
"I hope these students will have an influence on the future of China, " Yau says.
And the country with the most influence on the North, China, fears that too much pressure will lead to instability, creating problems in its provinces that border the country.
There is a wider contest for influence going on, and thus far China is winning.
EDITOR'S NOTE This story is part of "China's Reach, " a project tracking China's influence on its trading partners over three decades and exploring how that is changing business, politics and daily life.
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.
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.
Among the fund-raising questions considered by the committee were whether agents of foreign governments -- specifically the People's Republic of China -- were able to exert undue influence on the 1996 presidential campaign by finding a myriad of ways to funnel contribution monies to the Democratic Party.
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Down the road one can imagine a China that is all those things, and a positive influence on its region and on the world as well.
Nonetheless the core question for China will remain what influence it will seek to bring to bear on the future evolution of the global rules-based order itself.
Any new instability in the Pyongyang government also could require other nations to count more on China as an intermediary, while opening the door for Beijing to exert more influence in the region.
The TPP was motivated from the outset as a means to regain some of the influence on policy and institution-building in the Asia-Pacific presumed to have been lost to China, as America toiled in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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