When China's state-owned Agricultural Bank was recently listed, no big Western bank bought a significant stake.
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When China lowered the bank reserve ratio, commodities including gold, silver and copper jumped higher.
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When China does eventually allow the yuan to rise, it will do so gradually.
When China, the second largest economy, pays the Middle East for oil, it pays with U.S. dollars.
When China and India both opened up to private business in the 1990s, they did the same thing.
But when China at last adjusted its exchange rate last July, the initial revaluation was a tiny 2%.
This process accelerated through the 2000s, but it went into hyperdrive in 2005, when China's trade surplus abruptly spiked.
Or when China's CNOOC oil company put up a bid for the American oil firm Unocal a year earlier?
When China invests it secures an equity share of production on terms comparable to other co-owners (mainly the host country).
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When China's trade ministry asked Mr Ma to set up ChinaMarket, 4, 500 companies joined before he ran a single advertisement.
When China said in June that the yuan would be allowed more flexibility, it looked like a victory for Mr Geithner.
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When China joined the World Trade Organisation in December 2001, it agreed to open up its financial industry, but only gradually.
This began at a time when China Rail had a de facto monopoly not merely of rail but of inland transport in China.
Ask Bunge what happens to soy futures when China decides it needs a few million tons less soybeans this year from Midwestern farmers.
But what he can't see through his foggy macro lens is that when China's exports to us increase, our own exports must also increase.
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Two years ago, when China was hit by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the Sichuan province, Japanese rescuers helped with clean up and rescue.
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It begins around 1600, when China was the richest nation on earth and Europeans, anxious to trade with China, were building new kinds of ships.
The growth momentum of the heavy-duty truck sector has been declining since 2010 when China surpassed the million-vehicle mark in terms of heavy-duty truck sales.
By June 19, when China made its policy move, the USDX had backed off a bit, but at 87.04 was still well above April levels.
This ushered in a new era when China used oil exports to obtain the hard currency to buy the equipment and technology needed to modernize its economy.
If I had been asked in early 1997 when China would make the renminbi fully convertible, I would have said that it would occur by the year 2000.
The estimate is that there are 5 to 6 million Chinese in Thailand who are fluent in Chinese since Chinese education was allowed when China started to strengthen.
And even when China has more highly trained WTO lawyers, they still need the experience of winning and losing WTO cases, which are small in number each year.
Since June 2010 when China agreed to float its currency against the U.S. dollar, the yuan has risen by about 11 percent, an estimate that is adjusted for inflation.
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Ping An and other insurers are also expected to benefit when China's insurance regulator allows them to place more of their investments into higher-yielding assets like equity and property.
Unlike last year, when China sent its defence minister, Liang Guanglie, to the Shangri-La Dialogue, this year the highest-ranking Chinese delegate was a senior military academic, Lieutenant-General Ren Haiquan.
The second was that the collapsed currencies provided a very competitive new base for export-led growth even at a time when China was making ever bigger inroads into global markets.
When China's heavily hyped and widely marketed track star Liu Xiang limped away from the starting blocks earlier this week, his legions of fans weren't the only ones let down.
When China's central bank cut interest rates seven times between 1996 and 1999, China Life found itself paying out more to policy holders than it could earn through bank deposits.
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