O'HARA: Blumenthal says that China's power has improved considerably in recent years, and this year's report he says reflects the administration's acknowledgement of that fact and uncertainties about how to deal with it.
They know that Russia has its own anxieties about China's rising power, and that China and Russia both regard their ties with America as considerably more important than China-Russia relations.
The delicate process of freeing up China's capital and current account restrictions to allow the yuan to play a role commensurate with China's industrial power will take time.
For example the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly drawing on India's advanced but comparatively inexpensive medicinal chemistry capabilities, while simultaneously harnessing China's manufacturing power and utilizing specialty services unique to particular geographies, such as Vietnam's expertise in tropical diseases.
China's purchasing power is expected to surpass that of the US by 2016.
China's purchasing power is expected to keep recalibrating the art world's elite rankings.
This article is adapted from a March 2010 BCG report titled Keys to the Kingdom: Unlocking China's Consumer Power.
But China's growing power and confidence are sending ripples across the region.
China's government grasps the importance of cultural ties: it has funded hundreds of Confucius Institutes to teach Chinese and nurture China's soft power.
Construction of the 2, 500 megawatt Merone facility scheduled for completion in 2008 has been funded by China's Harbin Power and several Arab interests.
Duke Energy recently announced a memorandum of understanding with the China Huaneng Group, China's largest power generator, and the ENN Group, one of the nation's largest private energy companies.
" In fact, she later stated that China's burgeoning military might was not a threat but that, "what is important is for China's military power to be put to the service of peace.
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According to reports, Mr. Mabus stated that the immediate challenges to stability across the Pacific did not stem from China's growing naval power, but the threat from pirates, terrorists and illegal fishing.
Many companies are still trying to work out how they should respond to global trends, such as the dramatic rise of China's economic and political power, or even to the need for strategic takes on issues such as e-commerce or the rise of social media.
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The sage's popularity in the West still owes more to Hollywood, source of much American soft power, than China's own efforts.
By this analysis, Barack Obama took office committed to good relations with China, and ready to welcome it as a great power in return for China's accepting the global responsibilities that go with that status.
The IMF forecasts that, adjusted for purchasing power, China's economy will be bigger than America's by the end of 2016.
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By 2030 China's share of global economic power will match America's in the 1970s and Britain's a century before (see chart).
The potential buying power of China's middle class is vast.
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Zhengrong Shi, chairman of China's solar energy giant Suntech Power and Tulsi Tanti of India's wind company Suzlon Energy have both netted billions in recent years by harvesting nature's own power sources.
Standing up for Chinese sovereignty is a test of China's revived status as the major power in the region.
But decentralisation, deregulation and a huge infrastructure boom have boosted demand for power, and China's economy is now becoming more, not less, energy-intensive.
There is, he says, more spare industrial capacity around the world than during previous metals booms, thanks partly to China's rapid growth as an industrial power.
British officials chose photo opportunities for Mr Miliband that would highlight China's importance as a responsible world power, at a training facility near Beijing for UN peacekeepers, and a factory making solar panels.
Although a powerful military could not be sustained over the long haul without a prosperous economic base, it has been unusual, until recently in the case of China, to describe a country's power in terms of its economic output or its dominance of key industrial or trade sectors.
Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
China's remarkable four decades of economic reform and growth have catapulted it to wealth and power -- China is a global power, with global interests.
At the same time, both the United States and China were wary of the Soviet Union's military power and expansionist agenda.
China's self-image as a responsible great power was also on show, however, with a large new hospital ship, useful for humanitarian missions.
In the other section, known as "traditional track, " the winning business plan was one aimed at exploiting the increasing spending power of a key segment of China's 1.3 billion-strong population.
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