China also likes to point out that foreign companies, including American ones, produce and profit from much of what China exports.

ECONOMIST: America and China

Television viewers can increasingly receive foreign stations, including Indian ones.

ECONOMIST: Islamist militancy is alive and well

In return for allowing Ms Merkel to become chancellor, the SPD is to get control over more ministries than the CDU, including weighty ones such as foreign affairs, finance and the ministry in charge of labour-market reform.

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