At the same time, many in the West do not appreciate the fact that the world order has indeed changed, and that China needs to be treated as more of an equal if the relationship is going to have any chance of getting off to a new start.

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Fossil fuels supply 80% of the world's energy needs and, as the main driver of China's and India's growth, they will remain pre-eminent for decades.

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China and the U.S. need each other, and the world needs them to be reasonably friendly.

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But as the only two of those so far identified are wheat noodles and rice in North and South China respectively, not something that needs to be considered at the basic level necessary to make sense of the world.

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