Overseas visits: 6-12 September 2008, to Beijing, China, to attend the second UK-China Leadership of the Future Forum.
Some day in the not-so-distant future, China will do the same thing.
And having a chance to meet with all of you I think has given me great hope for the future of U.S.-China relations.
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That makes the future of U.S.-China economic relations especially murky.
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"We're hemmed in between two of the most populous and powerful nations on earth--India and China--and it's important that people realize the future survival of Bhutan doesn't depend on any single individual, " the King told TIME.
If China-Africa engagement continues into the future in such an explosive fashion, there will be large communities of newly arrived Chinese traders, engineers and manufacturing professionals from Cairo to Addis Ababa, from Lagos to Luanda, from Harare to Maputo to Capetown.
Mr Kikuchi believes that, if Japanese manufacturers are to compete against nimbler low-cost rivals in China, the development of future products will involve a mix of different technologies and services.
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So what -- where do we stand as far as China is concerned in the future?
Where once the West relied on China's lack of environmental enforcement to tamp down rare-earth prices and implicitly subsidize high-tech goods, in the future the nature of the subsidy will change so that China's cheap(er) labor will subsidize Western mid-tech goods.
At a time when demand in developed markets has declined, stagnated or settled into slow growth, the fast-growing China market has become for many Japanese companies an imperative for current and future growth, or even survival.
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The future is coal-based: half of Asia's primary energy consumption, and 70% of China's, is coal.
"The range trading seen in both the stock and bond markets recently shows that investors don't have any clear expectations for the central bank's future monetary-policy direction, " said Yang Delong, a fund manager at China Southern Fund Co.
Future earnings growth for China Mobile and its smaller rival Unicom could come from the eventual arrival of next-generation mobile telephony which will offer speedier internet access and better video streaming.
The world of golf may have glimpsed its future Thursday in the form of Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Guangzhou, China.
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"With demand for steel and other metals from China likely to remain strong for the foreseeable future, even if it does cool from recent white-hot levels, we think RT offers excellent value, even as we concede that the stock price has already had a great run, " he says.
Yet demand for air travel, and energy generally, is rising quickly in China and other developing countries - something likely to push up prices for the rest of us in future, as the world's oil resources deplete.
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