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...love to [keep wrestling],” he said. “I can’t think of anything better than representing the Unites States of America in a world championship or an Olympic championship, so I’m going to push and train while my body still allows me—at least through...
...sheer demographics, it's the world's most important relationship. China and India comprise 40% of humanity and boast economies that are expected to loom large over the 21st century. They also represent two of the world's fastest-growing militaries, armed with nuclear weapons, and are expanding their spheres of influence across oceans. Jonathan Holslag, a Brussels-based scholar of Chinese foreign policy and author of the recent book China and India: Prospects for Peace, is among a growing number of observers who have dismissed the idea of "Chindia" - a term once often invoked, expressing optimism over the joint...
...much of the trouble between India and China stems from the accident of geography - that they exist side by side in a very volatile part of the world? The tragedy of continental states is that they have ever shifting spheres of influence that constantly create friction. Geographic proximity has always been one of the main factors in conflicts between great powers on the Eurasian landmass. Neither country can hide away from the other: a kind of increase of influence of one country in a border state is automatically perceived by the other as a loss in its own leverage...
...result, the world's largest Internet company may now find itself shut out of the world's largest Internet market. Its partners are already minimizing any damage by association. Tom.com, a hugely popular portal, is no longer powering its search engine with Google, and China's two largest cell-phone companies are expected to tear up mobile-Internet and handset deals. Advertisers who have paid to reach the desirable demographic catered to by Google.cn - college graduates and professionals - are already feeling bereft. Soon, so will suppliers of music and video content to Google's Chinese service...
...past three decades, since China's opening to the outside world, foreign companies have tried to check politics at the door before stepping into the world's most populous nation. That was the price of doing business - it's what the Chinese government required - and most have been willing to pay it. But Google's rebellion, which includes openly soliciting the U.S. government's support in the fight for Internet freedom in China, has revealed a basic truth that was never far from the surface: big companies in China are welcome as long as they serve the interests...