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www.nytimes.com — Krugman calls China a "rogue economic superpower." After last month's "trawler-gate" fiasco between China and Japan, China stomped around and complained about hurt feelings, then cut off supplies of rare earths to Japan - 97 percent of the world’s supply of rare earths come from China. Right as rain, Japan caved and let the captain go.

apac2020.the-diplomat.com — With the United States apparently in terminal decline as the world’s sole superpower, the fashionable question to ask is which country will be the new superpower? The near-unanimous answer, it seems, is China.

www.nytimes.com — China's bold rise this decade took many forms. The Beijing Olympics. The billions of dollars lent to the U.S. The rip-roaring economic growth. And then there were the missing manhole covers...

www.diligencechina.com — 5 Non-Signs of Things to Come