This is the case of Zhou Xunshu, a 35-year-old pro golfer Washburn befriended during his first China Tour assignment, who grew up in a mountain village in the country's impoverished southwest.

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Whilst Mr Gore, conscious of his union supporters, held back a little in his support for permanent trading relations with China, Mr Bush, who comes from the free-trading, pro-immigration side of his party, was more effusive about globalisation.

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The assumption, in the U.S. as well as China, is that Obama will try to govern from the middle and adopt pro-globalization positions on trade with the Chinese.

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