Now it's China, India and a host of other upwardly striving nations.
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It has now issued a warning to China's enthusiastic microbloggers that it might not scruple to do the same to their forums as well.
"Their narrative says that the Chinese people have suffered persecution for the past century, and it's only now that China has become a global player capable of holding this great event, " Li says.
The NATO countries are still supporting it, but Russia and China now say that they will not, and so it's going to be very difficult for the administration to give sanctions.
It is now in everybody's interest to push China to overhaul its health care, pensions and corporate governance.
They want their country to rely less on exports and massive investments in construction projects as it does now, and develop instead China's own, domestic economy.
Inadvertently helping the administration's case, however, is the view of some American critics that Taiwan's now close links with China mean it is not to be trusted with the secrets embedded in the most advanced technology.
Obviously, as everyone says, Brazil is the next China it's now the sixth-largest economy in the world.
It's now a multinational player, with rabbis in China, Japan, India, Belgium and Israel who certify nearly 500, 000 products from about 3, 000 companies.
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And its economy, though it has now been overtaken in size by China's, remains home to a huge industrial apparatus with the innovative clout to make life easier for its elderly citizens.
USX, is only the world's 11th-largest steel maker, although America until recently was the world's largest steel market (China has now overtaken it).
"We buy most of our products now from China and other countries, so perhaps it's not too surprising that to manufacture new products and packaging they need the material to go back there, " spokesman David Mansell said.
's official position now is that it remains confident about its business in China.
You won't be seeing this Grand Memo hit US shores anytime soon -- it's a China and Europe-only affair for now.
"It's important for them to build relations with China now, " she said, adding that the Asian economy has been growing exponentially as a buyer in the market over the last two years.
Now China worries that Libya's new authorities will make it pay for its support for the old regime by discriminating against it in business deals, including potentially lucrative ones related to the oil industry.
Some U.S. officials and analysts say they now detect a shift in China's position, pointing out that it has backed U.N. sanctions against North Korea, kept quiet about the recent U.S. dispatch of B-2 bombers and F-22 fighter jets to South Korea and allowed unusually direct criticism of Pyongyang in state-controlled its media.
Now it seems the White House has decided that it's time to stop speaking of China's achievements and to start reasserting the United States' position as the pre-eminent power both in Asia and globally.
It estimates that China's consumers, companies and governments combined are now indebted to the tune of 205% of GDP, a figure that is broadly in line with the 198% of GDP previously estimated by Fitch Ratings.
For now, China has to blend Venezuela's oil with lighter crudes or sell it unrefined.
Now China is one of the bank's top borrowers, and in December it became a donor, on a small scale.
The firm sold 71, 940 vehicles in China last year, meaning it has now overtaken the UK to become JLR's biggest market.
Not only did it release a billion people from penury and oppression but it transformed China from a communist enemy of the U.S. into a now indispensable capitalist partner.
Coca Cola's Pulpy is now a billion-dollar global brand, but it was first a smash in China.
In 1994 China's steelmaking capacity was only 11% of the world total, now it accounts for roughly 25%.
China and other countries might exchange their U.S. dollars for it now.
It was taken as a message to the Asia-Pacific region that America now saw China's rapid economic and military advance as the main global strategic threat to its interests, and as a threat that it was determined to counter.
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