If commodity prices decline, then China and India will be faced with less imported inflation.
If this is wooing, they say, then China has much to learn about courtship.
If so, then China's economic and military clout will force Taiwan back into the fold.
Until then China had been leaning on Japan not to join America in research on anti-missile defences.
But if all three problems are left unchecked, then China could be overwhelmed.
In 2002 North Korea chose a tycoon, Yang Bin, then China's second-richest man, to develop a special zone by the Yalu.
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"If North Korea really ever provokes the United States and South Korea and Japan, then China may wake up, " he said.
" Beijing University economist Xiao Zhuoji believes: "If the renminbi remains stable then China's trade will be in serious difficulty next year.
If he did run, then China's leaders are likely to feel betrayed.
If the euro-zone's sovereign debt troubles continue to worsen and spillover to the wider financial system, then China's shipping outlook may shift again.
But since then China has restated its commitment to achieving a 40-45% reduction in carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 2020 compared with 2005.
But if the public debt and contingent liabilities remain majority owned by domestic residents, then China is more likely to experience growth stagnation like Japan instead of an outright debt crisis.
But if Li is to be trusted, and the assessment of Barclays in Hong Kong accurate, then China is crossing its own Rubicon in a sort of mild insurrection against old-style Communism.
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Among the three countries with the most gold medals at the time, athletes from Great Britain cried the most, with 37.5%, followed by American winners (17%), then China (7%), the paper noted.
But then China made life difficult for WikiLeaks and so four years later, Assange and his colleagues declared war on the US, rightly assuming that unlike China, the US would take their attacks lying down.
Then China and others will further diversify away from the dollar through their central bank and sovereign wealth fund holdings, and that will hurt demand for US bonds and push interest rates higher, contributing to fiscal deterioration.
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Since then China's film business has boomed.
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In endless rounds of negotiations since then, China and Japan have stepped back from the brink.
Since then, China claims the entire South China Sea as part of its historic waters, i.e.
Since then, China's central bank has made sure that the yuan has remained virtually stable against the dollar.
Then overnight China announced weaker manufacturing activity to further depress the market place.
Since then, China has made major improvements in law enforcement, crisis management, crowd control, disaster prevention and disaster relief.
But since then, China pumped nearly a trillion yuan into its economy to keep it firing on all four cylinders.
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Before then, China had been viewed simply as a promising commercial market.
If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were financial time bombs of one kind, then surely China's state-owned enterprises are time bombs of another.
Like Japan then, China today has a strong demand for housing, fuelled by fast growth and rapid urbanisation, and a tolerable exposure to debt.
Even then, China will still lag far behind most rich countries, where gas generally makes up a quarter or more of the total energy mix.
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