Maybe frustrated democrats in China should take heart from this.
Such factors lie at the heart of China's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).
In both respects, a resurgent China is at the heart of things.
Mr Thubron spent eight months travelling the 11, 300 kilometres (7, 000 miles) of the old Silk Road from Xian in the heart of China to Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey and, although he scrupulously admits in a note that his trip was broken by fighting in northern Afghanistan and that he was obliged to continue the following year, this interruption does not disrupt the flow of his narrative.
Mr. Heywood's family also didn't request an investigation, and continued to say he had died of a heart attack until China announced on Tuesday it was treating the case as a homicide.
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After Mr Chen's victory, which came as a shock to China's leaders, much heart-searching has taken place in Beijing.
But in the end, the pragmatism at the heart of the US-China relationship took hold, and Mr Chen was allowed to fly with his wife and two children to an almost-rock star welcome in New York, where he had been offered a fellowship as a visiting scholar at New York University's law school.
They have been at the heart of considerable diplomatic tension between China and Japan, most recently in January when Japan said a Chinese frigate put a radar lock on a Japanese navy ship near the islands - something China disputes.
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China is still a big knot of emotion in my heart that I cannot forget.
Mr Snow has taken up the misleading lament that China's undervalued currency and cheap exports are tearing the heart out of American industry.
In another recent step, top military officials from the U.S. and Japan met in Honolulu late last week to discuss their joint planned responses regarding islands that are at the heart of a bitter territorial dispute between Japan and China.
This paradox is at the heart of what looks like a big cyber-attack by China (or Chinese hackers) against the private e-mail accounts of hundreds of senior officials, military types and journalists from America and Asian countries, chiefly South Korea.
Jobs like his were the heart of America, and they are long gone to places like China.
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Celine Dion's performance of My Heart Will Go On from Hollywood film Titanic - a highly popular film in China - still "moved people's hearts even after 15 years", the newspaper notes.
You might want to hold your nose before touring the heart-pill factory run by Shanghai Hutchison Pharmaceuticals on the gritty industrial outskirts of China's largest city.
Our correspondent says that, according to one well-known Chinese songwriter, My Heart Will Go On is one of two English songs that are well known in China.
But the heart of the book is its relentless litany of Chinese abuses and a direct rebuttal of China's official narrative about its troubled history with the Uighur people.
At the heart of the issue is what many international relations scholars describe as a textbook "security dilemma" between China and the U.S. whereby one moves to defend itself from a perceived threat, but its actions are perceived by the other as offensive, leading to an escalatory spiral.
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