EU, could help with three broader challenges that America frets most about over the next 20 years: the democratisation of the Middle East, the growth of China and, to a lesser extent, developments in Russia.
From late December, visitors flock to this city in Heilongjiang Province in the north-east of China to experience one of the finest ice and snow festivals anywhere in the world.
The jellyfish spawn along the coasts of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea (see map in article) and some drift towards Japan.
Experts from Shandong, a province in the north-east of China, were asked to produce a feasibility study, and the government now proposes to start work.
Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.
It has suspended talks on the joint exploration of gasfields in the East China Sea as well as over increased flights between the two countries.
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The increased use of robots as well as moving manufacturing from East Coast cities to the interior of China, such as to Chengdu, is an attempt to reduce costs.
And Indonesian textile firms are lobbying against the full implementation from next year of the free-trade agreement between China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
For Chu, the Dubai China Fund is only the most recent expression of his faith in the Middle East as China's once and future primary market for its companies.
The new partnership will then head to the emerging markets of China and the Middle East.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
For the Asian leg of the project he will work in a village in China's Huadu district north east of the city of Guangzhou.
They moved overseas together and he's now a visiting professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law.
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China has called off a scheduled round of talks with Japan over the exploitation of gasfields under the East China Sea.
In the southern Japanese town of Yatsushiro, not far from the East China Sea, Chikashi Matsunaga is helping lead a quiet revolution in Japan's agriculture.
According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
But as Francisco Blanch of Merrill Lynch notes, most of the incremental demand for oil comes from China, India and the Middle East, where the prices of petrol and diesel are subsidised or capped, leaving drivers with little incentive to cut back.
The J-11B is expected to be used by the Chinese navy as its frontline fighter, capable of sustained combat over the entire East China Sea and South China Sea.
We need to create a whole-government, whole-society approach that learns from and taps into the new global geography of innovation, the waves of innovation coming from Indian designers focused on the rural poor, the talent factories of a resurgent China, the petro-dollar-fueled innovation hubs of the Middle East and the disaster-honed civil innovation capabilities of Chile, for instance.
However, the biggest growth rates in luxury sales remain in emerging markets, such as Russia, Brazil, the Middle East and, of course, China.
And that tells you that there are other things beyond our control, like unrest in the Middle East, or other factors like the growth of emerging countries such as China and India.
At the same time, economic integration in East Asia has broadened and deepened, such that the importance of China for the economies of all the countries in the region has multiplied.
It is the sound of the motherland for Minnan people in China and throughout South-East Asia.
The largest area stretches from Saharan Africa across the Middle East and Central Asia into parts of China.
The U.S. stock market outperforms all other major bourses in Europe and the Far East inclusive of emerging markets, although China is in a comeback mode.
The company's plans were announced as Diageo, the biggest distiller of Scotch whisky, reported Scotch sales have been particularly strong in China and south-east Asia during the third quarter of this year.
Artemisia grows like a weed across China and South-East Asia, but the best plants are found only in certain parts of China, such as Guangxi and Hunan, which produce most of the world's supply, and in Vietnam.
The Chinese military say that two of their East China Sea fleet fighter jets were scrambled to track an unnamed foreign surveillance aircraft on Sunday, according to China News Service.
There are some signs of hope: demand is falling in the rich world and slowing in fast-growing parts of the developing world, such as China and the Middle East.
The ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have held meetings with Japan, China and South Korea for seven years in a row.
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