Health care reform in China reflects a sea change in demographics and social structure.
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Others include changes in the sun, cruddy air from China, and a change in stratospheric water vapor.
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Third, large-scale currency intervention will eventually cause inflation in China to rise, forcing a change in policy.
Just as prosperity has helped dampen demands in eastern China for political change, officials reckon it can also silence separatism in the west.
Seen this way, the ascendancy of youth in China implies an even more profound change than in America.
Although rebalancing has so far been driven mainly by changes in Western markets, economic reforms will be critical for furthering change in China, says Yiping.
Back in 1997, we and others expressed the hope that, in time, Hong Kong might act as a catalyst for political change in China.
Our policy of facilitating in assisting foreign journalists reporting in China will not change.
Some thought BHP Billiton's decision was evidence of China's change in growth expectations beginning to impact global demand, and other economies as a whole.
Perhaps by the time Congress and the rest of the world are made privy to those ideas, we'll find that his politicking in China didn't represent a significant change after all in the U.S. position.
All signs, though, now point to a change in policy and a potential change in the headlines coming out of China.
Few are convinced that this signifies real change in China's dismissive attitude towards democracy in Hong Kong.
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For the longer term, encouraging a free flow of information will be key to fostering democratic change in China.
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Another big change in China in recent years, however, has been the central government's diminishing grip on the actions of local officials.
"It's going to take a whole culture change in China, " Schmidt says.
Mr Wang's unusually heavy sentence was clearly intended as a warning to activists abroad hoping for political change in China to keep well away.
"Trade is a force for change in China, exposing China to our ideas and our ideals, and integrating China into the global economy, " Clinton said.
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Threats and ranting from Washington risk merely fortifying hard-line opponents of change in China at a time when slowing growth has put its leaders on the defensive.
But a Chinese foreign-ministry spokesman said this week that he had not heard of any change in China's policy of helping North Korea cope with its shortages of food and energy.
The mock-epic story ends in 1990, but nothing really has happened: inner lives are stunted, inert passivity prevails, and, Jia suggests, the decade of tumultuous change in China was merely a convulsive emptiness.
It would indeed be ironic if a change in China's exchange-rate policy came not as a result of American pressure, but from China's own disillusion with the dollar as an international reserve currency.
Alternatively, are China's leaders bent on "nipping in the bud" any domestic call for democratic change - even in highly autonomous Hong Kong where such change is anticipated under China's own laws - that is not of their own making.
But analysts say that CCTV's expansion in Africa is a way for Beijing to change the narrative of China's involvement in Africa from one of exploitation to one of opportunity -- China's deepening engagement with Africa is often portrayed as pillaging the resource-rich continent, giving very little in return.
First, the current political landscape in China is very sensitive with the country looking at once-in-a-decade leadership change when the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China convenes later this year.
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But China has not announced a change in position on any of the main disputes.
Things change quickly in China, however, and many of the impediments to overseas acquisitions are being removed.
Here, China is the catalyst, but the change affects how tiger companies are situated not in China, but in third-country markets or at home.
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