Indeed, such discussions are already beginning in China, but there is a long way to go.
Gunpowder had already been invented in China but had not resulted in the sort of sophisticated military weaponry that the Europeans would develop from it.
But it noted that China already had made strides in cutting its reliance on external demand and that domestic rebalancing was also under way, with consumption a bigger driver of growth than investment since 2011.
But life in China's big cities was already quite unlike that when those films were made, and there has been more change since.
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But China's current account was already in surplus when the investment slowdown started, and is rising faster than it did a decade ago, so if and when the effects feed through to consumption, the change in the current account could be much bigger than last time.
On a dusty patch of ground now stands rack upon rack of western clothes, made perhaps in China or other parts of Asia but already worn in Europe or America and then given away to charities to be sold, for very little, all over Africa, even in places like Lundazi.
But most of the recent investment has been in countries that already recognised China.
Travel, where GGV has already invested, still has potential since in China travel is still predominantly for business, but it is moving more towards leisure travel as it is in the U.S., Foo says.
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Chery has been building cars for just eight years but is already China's fourth-largest auto manufacturer, with sales of 300, 000 vehicles in 50 countries last year, and plans to sell 1 million cars a year by 2010.
Ninth-grader Nicole Zido is already fluent in Cantonese, but her parents, both from Hong Kong, want her to learn Mandarin, China's official language, but Zido says she has her own motivation for wanting to learn the language.
Earlier this year, Cadillac executives were saying they intended to at least triple sales in China from 30, 000 in 2011 to 100, 000 by 2016, but the brand already has faltered somewhat.
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But at a separate event Friday, China's central-bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said he has already been in regular communication with the Federal Reserve, and is sympathetic to the course it is taking.
China already published twice as many scientific papers on computing as Japan and Germany in 2005, but over five years it produced an absolutely meteoric increase in output.
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