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August 26, 2010

China Has Money, America Has Guns

Adrian Hamilton, The Independent

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China's rise to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy has released the usual burst of Gibbonian pronouncements on the rise and fall of nations and the passage of power to the East.

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