Mr Putin has recently been talking to China about co-operating on another, larger plane.

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This expansion and the valuations of the established Chinese makers was in part built on hopes that China would implement a German-style feed-in-tariff subsidy program, something China was talking about around the time of the Copenhagen climate meeting.

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The Bush administration has begun talking more about climate change, just as China is putting the best public face on its efforts.

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And they're talking first about what's different about the China they live in from the China their parents grew up in.

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Others are at rigid, ultra-handsome attention. (Boston owners know what I'm talking about.) There are Boston Terriers on fine china.

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But few analysts seemed to notice the China situation, despite Tim Cook openly talking about it.

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They found themselves talking about which U.S. Internet models might work in China and struck upon travel, even though both were engineers.

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Brazil, Russia, India and China, the BRIC countries, are back to talking about creating a unified financial system where they can avoid euro and dollar volatility.

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And that kind of dynamic, normal relationship is essential when you are talking about the United States of America and its engagement with a country like China.

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