For Chu, the Dubai China Fund is only the most recent expression of his faith in the Middle East as China's once and future primary market for its companies.

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It's the most recent violent expression of the modernization of the Muslim Middle East.

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Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and Asia now share forms of dance, music, living arts and artistic expression that are a direct legacy of that history.

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