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.

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"I hope these students will have an influence on the future of China, " he says.

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"I hope these students will have an influence on the future of China, " Yau says.

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There is a wider contest for influence going on, and thus far China is winning.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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