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China appears here as both a partner and a rival, a country whose relationships with the U.S. and its neighbors are described as layered rather than simple. One line even frames competition and partnership as coexisting comfortably in trade, a nuance worth sitting with alongside our Chinese collection.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
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China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
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Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.
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Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'
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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
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When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.
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Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
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For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.
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China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.
Beyond diplomacy, there's a nod to how classical texts function almost as a national creed, standing in for religion in Western comparisons. For more on the traditions behind these ideas, see our Chinese Culture quotes.