In the 21st century, one may view China's influence in the Middle East in a similar vein.
"We view China as a market that has taught us how to focus, how to differentiate and how to innovate, " Khosla says.
So when I visited China I made it absolutely clear that the United States does not view China with hostile intent and that we can cooperate and compete simultaneously.
Chang said he has a different view on China than many economists and analysts.
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It has long been my view that China is a nation of small business people, farmers and engineers.
He doesn't expect the world to change its view on China overnight.
This indicates that Caterpillar has a long term view on China.
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In a recent note to clients, Stephen Roach, an economist with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, reiterated his view that China, not Japan, will be the engine of Asian growth in this century.
As China continues to gain strength and to use its growing economic resources to gain allies in Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Europe, it will be imperative for American leaders to learn how to look at issues not only from the U.S. point of view, but also from the point of view of China.
All of this sounds good, but investors also view this as China needing stimulus to grow.
They view the event as China's coming-out party to the world.
But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.
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Such an outlook also tends to accentuate a China-centric view of the world.
"People in China have this view that they do all the hard work of manufacturing, and the margin gets taken by the people with the brands, " says Chao.
This is the view maintained by France, China and Russia.
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While the US believes its alliances and its military presence in the Pacific have underwritten peace in Asia, China has a different view.
Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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And while most China investors are far from overly bullish on China, nor subscribe to any saintly view of its economic management, the prevailing consensus among portfolio managers who continue to put money to work in China is this: China may be down, but it is not out.
From this point of view, we shall also cooperate with China, which is an important partner.
Helen Fung, managing consultant of recruiting company SHL Group Ltd China, shared the same view.
' new release and catalog films this summer through the first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform in China.
The parting of ways between Europe and China came, in his view, not with the Renaissance or the Enlightenment but with the industrial revolution.
The trick, though, is to find the proper angle from which to view the debt of such issuers as China Development Bank, Gazprom, Hyundai Motor, Petroleos de Venezuela, and Telefonos Mexico.
The Council commissioned researchers at Ipsos Mori to ask thousands of adults in 11 key overseas economies including the USA, Brazil, China and India for their view of Britain following the major national and international events of 2012.
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Both sides are of the view that it is imperative to handle China- U.S. relations and properly address our differences in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, noninterference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and seeking common ground while putting aside differences.
CBERS-2, a joint project between Brazil and China, to get an uninterrupted view of what is going on.
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