Word: china
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...China may not be as well off as it seemed a month ago, so its ascendancy to the top of the worldwide economic food chain may be put off for awhile. (See pictures of China's business ventures expanding into Africa...
...China's exports fell again in April and fell more sharply than most analysts had expected. The value of goods and services leaving the country was down 22.6% compared to last year. Reuters reports that economists expected the drop to be only 18%. Several experts also pointed out that the reason that Chinese economic growth is still reasonably strong is due to the nation's $585 billion stimulus package...
...expense to do so.) South Korea has become an important trade and investment partner of the North. Some nongovernmental organizations, such as Mercy Corps, have had regular access to North Korea because they have delivered on meaningful development projects. If talks resume, they will surely be invited back. And China has moved from being a passive to an active player in the talks...
...from seeking to create an international crisis, North Korea is acting defensively. This is a regime that above all else seeks to remain in power, to preserve its juche ideology of militant nationalism and self-determination, and to run its economy without following China's advice about "reform and opening." But the regime presides over a desperately poor country with few resources, very little international trade, an ever-widening gap between itself and South Korea, a calamitous public-health situation and a military that gobbles up the greater part of the budget. On top of all that, North Korea...
...States has come to the point where it is not the lone superpower in the world and it is actually first among others," says Jay Nelson, the lead war game designer for one of the regional crisis panels. An additional complication, he adds, is that "The near peers [like China and Russia] that we have trying to discredit the legitimacy of the United States." (Check out a story about the threat of the Chinese navy...