In the new Singapore, it is all right to love one's country even if it is China.
And yet it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient.
But if there is any country that has the political audacity and ability to implement something so drastic, it is China.
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.
These days it is China that is stepping up defence spending, and the United Arab Emirates is set to field more advanced combat aircraft than the RAF.
But as should be no surprise, it is China that is emerging as a huge buyer of gold (this is according to a recent piece in CNBC).
It is China's push to adopt and expand more efficient energy technologies from solar to advanced batteries for electric vehicles that has raised the most vocal concerns lately in Washington policy circles.
It is China, xie xie, thank you very much.
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It is China's largest foreign takeover.
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As it is, China is gently loosening controls on yuan flows, but only a little.
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As it is, China is moving from an export driven economy to a more Western one that is geared to its local consumers.
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So perhaps another way to think of it is that China itself may not have resolved the question of how grown up it is and what that means.
It is not only China's biggest, it is almost certainly its best, winning praise from the United Nations anti-drug programme.
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It is as if China is afraid to stimulate its economy too much.
If anyone thought otherwise, here it is again: China is not looking to be the next U.S.A, or any Western democracy for that matter.
Although China is making it possible for Africans to visit, study and work in China, it is not asking, or requesting, other countries to emulate it or support its values.
As it is, China made toys have decimated the toy industry in Brazil.
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Yet keenly as Shantou is feeling the region's pain, it is still China.
The US says it is urging China to use all its leverage to help rein in North Korea's "destabilising" actions.
Of all Asian countries eyeing the Arctic, it is inevitably China that provokes the most interest and, in some quarters, alarm, for many reasons.
That seems far-fetched after all, Russia is probably on better terms with both India and Vietnam, traditional Chinese rivals, than it is with China itself.
It is in China's interests to build confidence with its neighbours, reduce mutual strategic distrust with America and demonstrate its willingness to abide by global norms.
In a scenario where it is suspected China may play a belligerent role, the United States would be faced with a difficult decision concerning its commitments to Taiwan's defense.
The iPhone has been available in China since 2009 through China Unicom and it is likely that China Telecom launches the iPhone 4S on its CDMA network early next year.
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It is because China wants us to subject the American population to more economic pain to redress a problem the Chinese themselves have created for the world and for us.
If there is one source of relief for the party it is that China's consumers have not been swept up by a recent surge of discontent abroad over safety standards of Chinese products.
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Called Made in America, Again, it focused on China and concluded that by 2015 it will be just as cheap for companies to produce goods with a high labour content in the US as it is in China.
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And so it is in China, where the authorities have lately been scrambling to throw up barbed wire and other unsightly barriers around diplomatic installations, in order to slow the rising tide of North Koreans seeking political asylum by hopping fences and dashing through gates into foreign missions.
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