It carried two astronauts this time, one more than China's first manned flight in 2003.
Per unit of growth, Brazil reduced its proportional poverty rate five times more than China or India did.
That's more than China, Russia, the UK, Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Australia added together.
Nowhere are tacos and fried chicken seemingly loved more than China.
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The U.S. buys a lot more from China than China's consumers buy from America each year.
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 result, the work of more than 20 employees, was a 100-page report, more graphics than text, extolling the wonders of the world's emerging markets, among which none shone more brightly than China.
In little more than a decade, China has established more than 300 geoparks.
And, much more than in China, the hot story in India is domestic demand.
Of course, the United States still boasts far more researchers than China, but the gap is narrowing rapidly.
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Perhaps most tellingly, no nation is pursuing aircraft carriers more assiduously than China.
The figures reflect, in part, how the global recession hit the U.S. more severely than China and hurt U.S. industrial activity and energy use.
But isn't the relevant benchmark really more Indonesia than China?
According to Anfavea and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), production costs in Brazil are 63 percent more expensive than they are in China, 40 percent more than they are in Mexico and 60 percent more than they are in India.
This bodes well for Japanese companies who now export more to China than to the U.S. Japanese exports to China are up over 10x in the past decade.
While their view is a contrarian one, the market is more cautious on China than they have been in more than a decade.
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Many US corporations are making more money in this markets than they do in the US. General Motors sells more cars in China, than it did in the US in 2010.
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More than 200 of China's 650 official cities have at least one (often smaller) city located within 50 kilometers.
And there are few place where this is more evident than in China.
It was a position that mattered far more to China than to Britain.
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Between 2001 and 2007, BRIC stocks soared, more than doubling in China and rising 369% in Brazil and 499% in India.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact that soon could include several states with more market economies than China, is drawing interest from Japan.
And nowhere is growth more in question than China.
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Australia now exports more to China than to America.
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Russia will have 76% more centa-millionaires over the period, with India and China more than doubling their uber-rich population by 114% and 106% respectively, according to The Wealth Report.
Thanks to our relative demographic dynamism, the America of 50 years hence may not only have more workers per retiree than countries like Japan and Germany, but also have more than emerging powers like China and Brazil.
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