China has it, and Britain and other Western countries want it.

It got down there China comes into the Western box here.

What does Westernization mean? Why is Japan considered Western and China not?

While coastal China and its major metropolises evince tremendous wealth, large swaths of Western China remain mired in poverty.

And yet we still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts.

But, by threatening to destabilize the global economy, China threatens Western interests as well.

Their mission was to get help from Russia at the border in western China.

This man, in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, in Western China, is serving up his national dish.

And China is succeeding, most importantly by consistently reinforcing Putin s anti American and anti Western agenda.

Afghanistan, along with Pakistan and Iran, is part of a vital western security zone for China.

A world order centered on China will reflect Chinese values rather than Western ones, Jacques argues.

Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong to be returned to China.

It was built near an oasis that was then on the extreme western edge of China.

Western critics of China have every right to protest any aspect of Chinese behavior, and vice versa.

They can t move workers from painting children s toys in Guangdong to building schools in Western China overnight.

The catalyst for these broad based protests is the proposed construction of hundreds of dams throughout western China.

The company is challenging the dominant Android in China and is also looking to expand into Western markets.

The Western Zhou period (1046 771 BC) was the first half of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.

While Western firms investing in China must face the prospect of protest and criticism back home from pro Tibet campaigners, some companies are coming under pressure in China itself.

China has so far lost money on two of its major investments in Western financial firms (Morgan Stanley and Blackstone).

It is not good news for Western human rights champions if China ends up training policemen in countries like Guinea.

The Silk Road has been historically a caravan route linking the markets of China with those of the Western world.

China did not forget Formosa. Western Germany did not forget East Germany. And Kuwait was a part of Iraq. quot

The Japanese occupation of China was a particularly galling and humiliating period because Japan was an Asian, not a Western, power.

And yet we still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience,

Western institutions and Western values.

Aided by systems developed by western intelligence agencies, China has forged a virtual sword that threatens to block the path to democracy.

But, given the political sensitivities of foreign pressure on China, it is unclear how far Western governments will be able to go.

True, China has made the kind of economic advances in three decades that required 100 years in Western countries. But China also has suffered a century s worth of environmental damage in 30 years.

For if Russia s anti Western paranoia continues and the Kremlin s Eurasian fantasy of allying with China lasts another 10 15 years, Russia will end up seeing China swallowing its Far East and Siberia.

It breeds in mountains from Afghanistan through the Himalayas and southern Tibet to western China, and winters in the plains of South Asia.

In fact, in today's China, the political participation at the grassroots level is much higher than any western country you can name of.

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Transportation Yinchuan is located near the western bank of the upper course of the Yellow River, near the western end of the Great Wall of China in the south central section of the Helan Shan and Ordos Desert.

So you can see that the way in which power has been constructed in China is very different from our experience in Western history.

While the Western powers have embraced ever harsher sanctions, Russia and China view Iran as a tool in their global competition with the US.

China was already accustomed to rapacious Western powers squabbling over its riches, but had remained self confident in the knowledge of these powers irrelevance.

Western leaders dithering, and the callous, cynical, and cavalier support of Russia and China for Assad, is a stigma that they will bear forever.

Members were added from countries outside the more industrialized Western nations this time there were members from China, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Hungary, and Romania.

When this is combined with the loss of manufacturing jobs to China, it has, you know, led to considerable angst amongst the Western populations.

So you can see that the way in which power has been constructed in China is very different from our experience in Western history.

According to research released in March 2011 by the China Development Research Foundation of the Chinese State Council, poverty in the western provinces of China has led to malnutrition and developmental delays among primary school students.

looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts.

Western governments have been accused of interference, but it is unlikely that any want to derail their relations with China, especially during an economic crisis.

China, for example, seeks markets for its products and further energy resources, while Russia aims to use the SCO to promote its anti Western agenda.