That title now belongs to China, with ramifications down the road for the dollar as go-to currency for the pricing of tradable goods.

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Trajectory: Shanghai has breathed life into the World Expo movement because this is the 21st Century, and it belongs to China as did the 19th Century to England and the 20th to America.

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David Hedley Jones, the company's business development director, belongs to a European Union-China group on copyright infringement, trying to slow the spread of contraband cubes in Europe.

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But that, China insists, belongs to another day.

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The future belongs to those companies that can succeed at investing and manufacturing abroad in countries like China, Thailand, Mexico, and the U.S. And not only manufacture abroad for foreign markets, but also for export to the Japanese home market.

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