In the 21st century, one may view China's influence in the Middle East in a similar vein.
"We view China as a market that has taught us how to focus, how to differentiate and how to innovate, " Khosla says.
The current standoff over a U.S. reconnaissance airplane and its crew certainly provides more fodder for those who view China as America's No. 1 threat.
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Mr. Panetta spent much of his address outlining U.S. plans to work more closely with allies and partners in Asia, many of whom view China warily.
So when I visited China I made it absolutely clear that the United States does not view China with hostile intent and that we can cooperate and compete simultaneously.
American defence planners also view China's rise with apprehension.
Chang said he has a different view on China than many economists and analysts.
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Do you have a view on China and ASEAN and the South China Sea issues?
The U.S. government is also on the case, though with an apparently less settled view of China.
One is a perhaps understandable view that China is unique, and that other countries' experience is irrelevant.
It has long been my view that China is a nation of small business people, farmers and engineers.
He doesn't expect the world to change its view on China overnight.
Take for instance my view on China's economy and whether or not there is a real estate bubble there that could undermine the global recovery.
This indicates that Caterpillar has a long term view on China.
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Analyst James Mulvenon, with the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis, says previous reports reflected the view that China's military modernization was motivated primarily by Beijing's concerns about Taiwan.
One might think that their generally hawkish view toward China would be offset by the appointment of six other members by Democratic leaders Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle.
In a recent note to clients, Stephen Roach, an economist with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, reiterated his view that China, not Japan, will be the engine of Asian growth in this century.
"I think this reflects Xi's mind-set, his view of China's strength and relations with the outside world, " said Li Mingjiang, an assistant professor and China security-policy expert at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
In addition to U.S. imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese-made solar panels and wind towers, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recommended that President Obama block a Chinese purchase of a U.S. wind farm in Oregon, which he did, reaffirming his view of China as an economic rival.
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As China continues to gain strength and to use its growing economic resources to gain allies in Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Europe, it will be imperative for American leaders to learn how to look at issues not only from the U.S. point of view, but also from the point of view of China.
While many outside China view its leaders as strong, masters of a rising power, many in China see them as cautious, consensual, hemmed in by problems at home.
That is hardly a view of modern China held by even its most severe critics.
All of this sounds good, but investors also view this as China needing stimulus to grow.
But he made clear that we do not view Russia and China as a threat.
But in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing, the China view looks more like that of middle class Eastern European nations like the Czech Republic than an emerging market where most people still earn just a few hundred dollars a month.
They view the event as China's coming-out party to the world.
It is not clear whether the bill itself will pass, but the measure is an example of a protectionist view of relations with China that appears to be gaining momentum on Capitol Hill.
But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.
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DPP, which wants another and in China's view far more provocative referendum in 2006 on a new constitution.
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