Trajectory: Shanghai has breathed life into the World Expo movement because this is the 21st Century, and it belongs to China as did the 19th Century to England and the 20th to America.
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But by the end of the 20th Century, they could not compete with the cheap bears imported from China and most of them closed down.
Listen to scholars, pundits and officials on both sides and you get the sense that today's tense relations between Japan and China stem both from the nasty history of the 20th century and from expectations or concerns about the shape of the 21st.
We also gained experience in fighting militant guerrilla-like forces in Haiti, Nicaragua, Mexico and China in the early part of the 20th century.
China is mindful of the lessons of the 20th Century with respect to energy insecurity.
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The internet in China, in fact, punctures a few 20th century ways of thinking.
The book romps through history at a terrific rate: from ancient Greece through the Islamic empire of the 13th century, 15th-century China and Renaissance Europe to 20th-century America.
For evidence, see China and the former Soviet Union throughout much of the 20th century, when each country's economy was on its back for decades.
By the early 20th century Syracuse became famous for production of Smith Corona typewriters, Syracuse China, Nettleton shoes, bicycles, wax candles and the Franklin, an ahead-of-its-time automobile with an air-cooled engine.
Even through self-immolations took place in medieval China and 20th-century Vietnam, even though the Lotus Sutra praises "burning for Buddha" as the supreme self-sacrifice, Buddhists are very reluctant to condone violence.
How China and India manage their own relationship will determine whether similar mistakes to those that scarred the 20th century disfigure this one.
China, on the other hand, was racked by upheaval in the early part of the 20th century, and was closed to the world from 1949 to 1978, when the U.S., Japan and the European countries were making up for time lost during the war and building their economies in earnest.
The American investor compared China's economic rise to the rapid growth seen in the U.S. in the 20th century with the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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