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China surges on with new power.(Spotlight)
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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June 9, 2006| Author:
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Byline: Kelly Lemieux, Special to the News
While the War on Terror and its focus on the Islamic world has been the primary foreign policy concern in Washington for several years, there's another Asian power that will eventually supercede Islam's hold on the American imagination.
That power is the rising economic and military tiger that is China, once colonized by European powers and invaded by a fascist mid-20th-century Japan.
Having recovered from foreign incursions and influence due to a communist revolution in 1949, China now stands as America's greatest ...
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