In my book The Chinese Dream, I urge people in the West to see the differences between China and the West as complementary rather than contradictory.
And both China and the West should be offering the North's bureaucrats and students every possibility to visit or study abroad.
Mr Schwarzman said he hoped to foster "a win-win relationship of mutual respect" between China and the West.
BBC: Stephen Schwarzman unveils $300m China scholarship fund
It is my hope that it will not only serve as a bridge between China and the West, but also start an important conversation about the Chinese Dream.
After China's re-entry into the international arena, it was hoped that a Chinese writer could one day win acclaim both in China and in the West.
Well, now China's west and midwest are starting to catch up.
Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.
Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan on the east and south, Iran on the west, China on the northeast, and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on the north.
Under an ambitious scheme, it could be developed to take goods by road and rail between Gwadar and south-west China.
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At the same time, diplomats have been able to point to the sort of progress diplomats point to: a series of Security Council resolutions, supported by Russia and China as well as the West, telling Iran to stop its uranium-enriching centrifuges.
For most Chinese companies, the domestic market is already so big and dynamic, the additional revenues offered by investing in smaller markets in the Gulf fail to justify the difficulty of operating there, according to Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist and author of The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China.
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"China's economy is growing at three times the rate of the West, and if that growth continues, China will become the largest economy in the world within the next couple of decades, " Mr Schwarzman said in a statement ahead of the funds launch on Sunday.
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Then in 1978, in a move almost unnoticed in the west, Japan and China signed a treaty of friendship.
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"The first was when low cost manufacturing shifted from the west to China, Malaysia and so on, " he explains.
China, wisely learning from the West and elsewhere, has eased for trading and investment rules and opened its exchanges wider to entrepreneurs.
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As entrepreneurial as they are, Mr Zhao observes, many small and mid-sized firms in China lack much of what is common in the West, in particular good management, proper accounting and savvy marketing.
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China's coal is located in the north and west of the country, far from the coastal cities where energy demand is growing strongly.
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According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co. jumped 10.1% in Shenzhen, while in Hong Kong, West China Cement climbed 5.1% and China National Building Material Co.
The foreign minister said Syria would respond by strengthening its relationship with Russia, China and Latin America, "to prove to the West that the world is wide and is not made up only of America and Europe".
The Cheap Revolution is good for China and India as well as newer, clever companies in the West, such as Google, Skype and Craigslist.
"So however the world turns, we have deep links to the West, Japan, and old links to China and India that we'll deepen, " Yeo said.
Some differences from the West's will fade as the industry and China's economy mature and the country's internet population grows older and richer.
The chapter discusses both the bottom-up environmental movement in the West and the top-down governmental approach in China and presents a case for mutual learning and collaboration.
Despite the fact that for the best part of two centuries China came to suffer hugely at the hands of the West, and to lag badly behind the West, the Chinese never stopped believing in themselves.
The broader message behind this point-scoring may have been that the West needs China's help in calming North Korea and in other trouble spots (such as Myanmar, see article), and that such help comes at a price, even where it appears to be in China's own self-interest.
Against this backdrop, China venture investing and startups are becoming increasingly sophisticated and taking fewer cues from the West.
In China, online gaming and virtual goods have had a much longer history than in the west.
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As chief minister of West Bengal, he realised that economic liberalisation and the rise of China were making old orthodoxies redundant.
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