In my book The Chinese Dream, I urge people in the West to see the differences between China and the West as complementary rather than contradictory.
Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan on the east and south, Iran on the west, China on the northeast, and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on the north.
The agreement provides for the construction of a three-thousand-kilometre pipeline from Kazakstan to the west of China.
"The first was when low cost manufacturing shifted from the west to China, Malaysia and so on, " he explains.
She finds parallels too in how the West sees China.
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The broader message behind this point-scoring may have been that the West needs China's help in calming North Korea and in other trouble spots (such as Myanmar, see article), and that such help comes at a price, even where it appears to be in China's own self-interest.
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.
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.
For most Chinese companies, the domestic market is already so big and dynamic, the additional revenues offered by investing in smaller markets in the Gulf fail to justify the difficulty of operating there, according to Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist and author of The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China.
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"China's economy is growing at three times the rate of the West, and if that growth continues, China will become the largest economy in the world within the next couple of decades, " Mr Schwarzman said in a statement ahead of the funds launch on Sunday.
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The gold mavens of the west have nothing on China, 1.3 billion strong.
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Then in 1978, in a move almost unnoticed in the west, Japan and China signed a treaty of friendship.
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This isn't a story of the West losing out to China, because both will continue to profit in Africa.
More than 260 of the injured were taken to the city's West China Hospital, where 202 remained as of Tuesday.
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And food companies don't meet the disapproval in China that they do in the West: according to the Pew Research Centre, while 72% of Chinese think that fast food has made the world a better place, only 23% of Americans do.
Some differences from the West's will fade as the industry and China's economy mature and the country's internet population grows older and richer.
The chapter discusses both the bottom-up environmental movement in the West and the top-down governmental approach in China and presents a case for mutual learning and collaboration.
Mr Schwarzman said he hoped to foster "a win-win relationship of mutual respect" between China and the West.
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Company name refers to high-quality white porcelain that was exported from China to the West in the 18th century.
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And both China and the West should be offering the North's bureaucrats and students every possibility to visit or study abroad.
It is my hope that it will not only serve as a bridge between China and the West, but also start an important conversation about the Chinese Dream.
The conversion is rejuvenating China's ancient Silk Road to the west, immortalised by Marco Polo in the 14th century but rarely used since sea routes made the camel trains redundant.
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The cost of living in China is very different from that in the West.
The Starbucks at Metro City in west Shanghai was probably the busiest Starbucks I visited in China.
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After China's re-entry into the international arena, it was hoped that a Chinese writer could one day win acclaim both in China and in the West.
And if the core economies of the West do worse than expected, China policy makers will have to act faster than they have so far at lowering interest rates or providing stimulus where needed unless China slip into even lower growth.
Mortenson claims that he has educated over 60, 000 of young children and mostly girls and built over 170 schools in Karakoram -the north west of Pakistan and the Wakhan valley of Afghanistan near the Russia and China border during the last 17 years.
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Despite the fact that for the best part of two centuries China came to suffer hugely at the hands of the West, and to lag badly behind the West, the Chinese never stopped believing in themselves.
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