Facing a similar situation in these days, the US is now calling upon China to take similar measures.

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Brazil joined its BRIC partners Russia and China in calling for an immediate cease fire in Libya.

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But the biggest loser would be DMG, which is betting on getting lucrative distribution rights in China to Iron Man 3 and using it as a calling card to court other studios circling China.

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While the United States has called for tough sanctions against North Korea, China and Russia are calling for calm.

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He doesn't have to think about how 17 governments will react to the level of European fiscal integration that America, Britain and China are all now calling for - let alone the massive injections of capital into Europe's banks.

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In exchange, the Chinese oil firm signed a letter of intent with BP Amoco calling for the establishment of a gas-marketing joint venture in eastern China.

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The things that define for the Chinese who they are and what China is are a product not of the past 100 years of calling itself a nation-state but 2, 000 years of being a civilisation-state.

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They were mostly on the move, calling at a wide variety of ports, in countries such as Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Bulgaria and China.

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