To avoid losing traffic (and business) to Paris and Frankfurt, London must either expand its other airports, such as Stansted, or build a new colossus.

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Indeed, in the 1970s and '80s a spate of books from the West had warned of Japan, as the new colossus, pushing Asia's claims to a Pacific Century.

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Taking his career a step further in 2009, RJD2 created his own record label called RJ's Electrical Connections, under which he released his new album, Colossus.

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