The increasing complexities of dealing with the emerging power of China are reflected in the Pentagon's 2005 assessment of China's military capabilities.
Mr. Shultz is not an alarmist about the rising power of China.
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Governor Romney must also show how President Obama has failed to warn of, let alone effectively counter, the rising power of Communist China.
There is no guarantee that the changes of power in China and Russia will not turn fratricidal: the seamless way in which Mr Medvedev and Mr Hu took over their presidencies in 2008 and 2003 were after all the exceptions, rather than the rule.
Mr Bo had been thought of as a contender for elevation to the Politburo's Standing Committee, the pinnacle of power in China.
Less obvious, but potentially even more problematic, is the effect of the Obama-facilitated redistribution of power on Communist China.
America could be deflected from its primary goal of balancing the power of a rising China in the western Pacific.
China has since acquired an array of sophisticated weapons that many defense analysts say has slowly been tipping the balance of power in China's favor.
The potential buying power of China's middle class is vast.
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"I don't know of another system that is going to be anywhere near the performance and the power of this machine" in China, said Jack Dongarra, a supercomputer expert on the Oak Ridge research staff who is a professor at the University of Tennessee and recently inspected the system in Tianjin last week.
"We are steadfast in our belief that the power and popularity of the KFC brand in China will ultimately drive a full sales recovery, " said Mr Novak.
The spread of consumer spending power across China means that a company must constantly expand its geographic footprint--but the requirements of scale make it extremely critical to cluster locations appropriately to ensure competitive scale economies.
Then the U.S. airforce wasted the embassy of China, the one big power besides Russia that has been firmly opposed to the NATO campaign.
Duke Energy recently announced a memorandum of understanding with the China Huaneng Group, China's largest power generator, and the ENN Group, one of the nation's largest private energy companies.
But perhaps the biggest reason why democracy's magnetic power has waned is the rise of China and the belief of its would-be imitators that they too can create a dynamic economy without easing their grip on political power.
The purchasing power of the Indian average consumer is lower than China and we are not planning to get there.
But there is also a longer-term explanation, based on the weakened power of labour after the entry of countries like China into the global employment market.
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In the 10 years that the outgoing leaders have been in power, the number of internet users in China has grown tenfold to more than 500 million.
According to the OECD, on a 2005 purchasing power parity basis, the combined GDP of China and India will soon surpass that of the G-7 countries.
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Moreover, state-owned banks are only too happy to lend to a fellow state-owned firm in pursuit of the government's fond goal of boosting clean forms of power generation at the expense of grubby coal the main fuel for China's power stations.
This is not the first emergence of authoritative attention to the power of gold as the monetary unit by China in recent years.
Inflation also cheapens the purchasing power of the debt held by foreign governments, namely China, who must eventually spend their trillions in dollar reserves on goods, services or investments other than debt.
Of the more than 4300 power generation companies in China that have capacity of 6, 000 kilowatts and above, approximately 90 percent are state-owned, or companies with a majority of their shares controlled by the state.
Abroad, Chinese leaders are struggling to cope with what they feel to be an accelerated shift in the global balance of power, in China's favour.
One analyst, who wants to remain anonymous expects solar power to be competitive with gas-fired power on the eastern seaboard of China by this time next year.
The subsequent decline of China as a world power can be traced back to the decision to ignore the need for reciprocity in trade.
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And though the rising tide of China's economy undoubtedly has the power to lift all boats, there are worrying rigidities in the system, caused by the under-development of its financial system and the fact that economic reform has not been accompanied by political reform.
The war would probably drag on, robbing President Thein Sein of the peaceful new start he is promising his country, entrenching the power of the military in this strategic border area, and unnerving China, which sees Kachin state as a vital trade and energy corridor.
In refusing to close off the option entirely, however, they have pointed, rightly, to the dangers of the neighbourhood: China, already a nuclear power, and Pakistan, which like India is only a screw's turn, at most, from having nuclear weapons of its own (see article), live next door.
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