Mr Putin has recently been talking to China about co-operating on another, larger plane.
When it's a colossus talking, China's neighbours might understandably think so.
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Talking at China's Business Summit, China's Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said China would adjust its money supply and credit and take "comprehensive measures to mop up liquidity in the banking system".
Then, after talking with leaders from China and India and announcing a "breakthrough", he returned to Washington buried under a raging snowstorm that covered most of the Eastern Seaboard.
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.
The Bush administration has begun talking more about climate change, just as China is putting the best public face on its efforts.
From now on, the G20 will replace the narrower, Western-dominated G8 as the primary global economic talking-shop, giving the likes of China, India and Brazil a permanent seat at the table.
To that end, one of my favorite profiles over the years has always been of that of Jack Ma more than a decade ago when he was an unknown on the global stage, talking up the potential of the Internet in China.
But few analysts seemed to notice the China situation, despite Tim Cook openly talking about it.
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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.
Born in Hangzhou, China, he perfected his English skills by talking up tourists at a local hotel.
Others are at rigid, ultra-handsome attention. (Boston owners know what I'm talking about.) There are Boston Terriers on fine china.
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.
But Vincent Sabathier of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, says China is being careful not to rile America by talking of a space race.
They found themselves talking about which U.S. Internet models might work in China and struck upon travel, even though both were engineers.
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.
Ren is one of China's most enigmatic business figures, rarely appearing in public and never talking to reporters.
Talking at Pine Valley, a vast Nicklaus-designed 45-hole course outside of Beijing, Nicklaus believes that China will be home to future champions as well as millions of recreational players.
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