Ouyang says the aim of China's space program is clear: to advance the country's economic and scientific development.

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London also is collaborating with Hong Kong with the aim of offering China's companies something they can't get in Shanghai: an international listing.

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Clinton's trip to China will center on advancing the US's aim of ensuring that China continues to finance the US's national debt.

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At the same time, Africa will need to assess its relationship with China very carefully, with the ultimate aim of protecting valuable natural resources from exploitation while holding China accountable for its actions on the continent.

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One aim of offensive containment is to move China from talking about pressure on North Korea to taking effective action to rein in its ally.

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The astronauts are aiming to complete China's first manned docking with the Tiangong-1 module already in orbit, an important first step towards China's aim of creating a working space station by 2020.

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But for all of Disney's avowed aim to "correctly portray the images and customs" of China, how native can the production be?

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The tactic is similar to China's model of internet moderators who aim to control news and manipulate opinion.

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For Beijing, the move merely confirms the suspicions it has long harbored toward Lee - that his ultimate aim is to split Taiwan off from China, with or without the help of foreign powers.

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Meanwhile, China Life's Chairman Yang Chao says it also has plans to become a financial holding company and has been buying stakes in a number of China's banks and other financial institutions to further that aim (See story "Ready to Deal").

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Such behaviour stretched back years and had "become part of the Communist Party practice in China", she said, the aim being "to intimidate family members and to isolate activists from their own community of support".

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The aim of the other five around the negotiating table—America, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia—has been to get him to shut down his bomb factories and (after steadily increasing dollops of trade and investment, and in return for diplomatic ties with America) eventually to give up the bombs he has long claimed to have stashed away.

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But clearly the aim is to show the company is still committed to China, and that any store closures are part of a routine periodic business adjustment.

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Look at what happened on Monday, when the Chinese government released new economic growth targets: Instead of expanding GDP by 10.4%, as it did two years ago, China will now aim for 7.5% growth this year.

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