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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A century ago, it was the explorers and infantrymen of Europe's great powers slugging it out for slices of Africa.

But it would be wrong to under-estimate the significance of this rapprochement between the two great powers of east Asia.

It was "the least of the Great Powers, " frustratingly unpredictable and unscrupulous in the eyes of its neighbors.

We are often asked how the cover-up will break, as it is at present a standoff, at least by the great powers who dominate the scene.

The documentary, on China's main national network, uses the word rise constantly, including its title, "Rise of the Great Powers. "

The British economist Norman Angell once argued persuasively that deep economic links made conflict between the great powers obsolete.

Leak led to a small country rallied around the great powers plundered China's interests.

The time will come when the U. S. will subside to become but one of many Great Powers. It is inevitable, but it is not imminent.

The armament of any of the great powers could destroy the civilization.

The armament of any of the great powers could destroy civilization.

Because of its critical strategic geography, Cambodia turned out to be the arena of the great powers during Cold War.

The Gengzi Incident once provided him with a glimmer of hope, fantasying that he himself came forward to mediate with the great powers.

It has shaken off the political tragedy of great powers and will promote world economic development and international political harmony.

Americans like to think their country behaves much better than other states do, and certainly better than other great powers.

Truly great powers do not fear small threats or, if they come to, they diminish themselves and lift up the small.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Thereafter the great powers, as occasion permitted, worked industriously to carve it up into spheres and areas for exploitation.

Yet, just like past great powers, it has convinced itself that it is different, and better, than everyone else.

Crucially, no Mikhail Gorbachev exists among the great powers that support the Arab dictators.

me to agree with Paul Kennedy's thesis in The Rise and Fall of Great Powers that America must inevitably follow historical precedent.

The president reminded Americans that, unlike great powers of past centuries, their country has not sought world domination.

Never have two great powers been obligated to work together on such a broad spectrum of issues.

For centuries too the Montenegrins have been adept at manoeuvring between the great powers.

Intercontinental trade and communication became regular, organised , and protected by the 'Great Powers.

"We know that more is to be gained when great powers co-operate than when they collide, " he said.

China, as one of the four anti-fascist great powers, played an important and positive role reestablishing peace in the postwar era.

The images of fiction reflect the sense of great powers and comfortable feeling in Austen's works.

In course of the Turkish empire declining rapidly, the great powers of Europe started to scramble for the empire's heritage.

In previous eras, the rise and fall of great powers has almost always been accompanied by war.

Great powers have always reached beyond their borders for wealth andresources, including the U. S. as it built the world's largest economy.

If this revenue has been weakened energy exports, Russia's ambition to revive the great powers will also be frustrated.

For centuries, the rest of the world was a stage for the ambitions and interests of the West's great powers.

Coveting the China trade, the American Secretary of State circulated his "Open Door Notes" to the great powers.

As Mr Schlesinger points out, it has become a forum where all states, including the great powers, talk to each other on a continuous basis.

CCTV inside the rise of great powers, the rise of the German spoken in great detail.

Since the cold war, America has launched more military interventions than all other great powers combined.

When he outlined the theory in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1988 - a US election year - it made many waves.

I do not think any relationship between great powers can be sustained exclusively on the economic level.

They were, like the oil producers of today, sure that great powers couldn't do without them.

These are surely the right kind of diplomatic solutions to manage an epochal changing of the guard among the great powers .

Both Israel and Judah, located between the empires of Egypt and Assyria, were caught in the struggle between the two great powers.

Why, at the moment when they are becoming great powers, should they surrender sovereignty to others?

The world's great powers decide to detonate nuclear bombs, hoping to push the Earth off a collision course with the sun.

India andits people, long disparaged by British racist jokes, are delighted to be calledequals by the great powers.

Some worry about China's development strategy and direction, wondering that China would repeat the history of great powers seeking hegemony.

Nothing is changing the world's political and economic landscape more than China's joining the ranks of the great powers.

Then, they were out to prove they were still great powers.

The exploitation of the political resources is the stable element which influences development of the great powers.

As a trained historian and former Cold Warrior, Gates is well aware of the costs and dangers of military competitions among great powers.

A final nightmare is war among the great powers, as happened so disastrously in 1914.

He also warned the world's great powers that the peace process, neglected for years, must be tackled responsibly.

The country gained recognition of its independence in 1878 from the great powers following the Russo-Turkish war.

China is one of the world's great powers, China is a responsible country.

Now history has stopped, and gone into reverse gear, with the number of great powers increasing from one to two, to three or more.

We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers.

Great powers do not readily hand over to new ones.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us.

The system was designed to keep the potentially isolationist Great Powers inside the UN tent.

Nor should Westerners overdo the despair, for the emergence of new great powers will benefit them, too.

Nuclear weapons and the rise of the developmental state have made war among great powers obsolete.

Middle East is filled with religious conflict, ethnic conflict and sovereign disputes. It is a stage of great powers.

The threat of force cannot change the policies of other great powers, except to make them more suspicious of US intentions.

We know more is to be gained when great powers co-operate than when they collide.

Prof Tiffany likes to sober up his students by reminding them that, historically, great powers have appeared and faded like comets.

The problem is not the great powers with nuclear stockpiles, they say, but rogue regimes such as North Korea and Iran.

Relation Pattern of Great Powers in the Early 19th Century Resulting From "Oriental Issues"

The writer is author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers.

Stuck between mountain ranges and great powers, Kyrgyzstan is a nation defined and dominated by what surrounds it.

It's beyond my power to help you. The great powers held an international conference.

That's a burden that great countries, great powers, have, is to act responsibly in the community of nations.

In the late 1930s the farm economies of the great powers were in crisis.

Yet, realists would argue, it is interests rather than ideas that end up shaping the foreign policy of great powers.

Among great powers, thinking you're special is the norm, not the exception.

That is the essence of the "imperial overstretch" Paul Kennedy, a Yale historian, describes in his The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.

In history, the rise of great powers are often brutal and bloody.

Some of them were great powers, like Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Phoenicia .

At first the writers did not give him great powers.

Yet, unlike the great powers before 1945, China is not looking for new colonies.

Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law.

And it is less able to hand down opinions that count, because they do not bear the seal of all the world's great powers.

Hypersonic technology is the direction of weapon developing that many military great powers pay attention to.

Is America going to decline like other great powers (nations) in history ?

For unlike the great powers of old, we have not sought world domination.

Theproblem is not the great powers with nuclear stockpiles, they say, but rogue regimes such as North Korea and Iran.

ASEAN has been struggling for survival in the siege of great powers ever since its establishment.

Great powers, actual or aspiring, tend to overestimate their ability to direct the course of events.

Throughout history, great powers have tended to become adversaries.

The girls exhibited great powers of endurance during the climb .

All other great powers lay in ruins, while America itself was unscathed by bombing or invasion.

He has been the super-diplomat for Saudi Arabia who has handled much of the work with great powers.

She exhibited great powers of endurance during the climb.

The Great Powers of 1945 are no longer the great powers of today.

Great powers have retrenched before: Britain for instance.

Great powers have often been moulded by events rather than grand strategy.

The Middle-East Region is very important and attractive to all great powers in the world in the angle of geopolitics and energy supply.

MM Lee said China is following an approach consistent with ideas in the Chinese television series "The Rise of Great Powers. "

He has worked with two difficult great powers, Russia and China, to build a credible international sanctions regime.

Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 prize for his role in ending the bloody 1905 war between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia.

He'd been thinking about the fluctuating fortunes of great powers.

Remarkably, that was the only contact between the two great powers of which a record survives.

Sam: Of course I do. You may not realize it, but you're a man of great powers.

Today's great powers are economically linked in all sorts of ways that make big wars a lot less likely.

We know that more is to be gained when great powers cooperate than when they collide.

A good novelist needs great powers of conception.

Great Powers accumulate influence points, which they then send to non great powers.

If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation.

During late Qing Dynasty, Western Great Powers drew attention to the rich resources in Xisha archipelago.

It is difficult to persuade the Great Powers to disarm.

In the past, the great powers would wage war against helplesslittle countries so as to gain their land.

The speaker had great powers of utterance.

I don't understand. - Ursula has great powers.

All great powers draw in the world's best and train the future leaders of their allies and vassal states.

In modern times, the rise of great powers in the process of financial strength to play a key role.

By experience with all kinds of people the doctor has developed great powers of intuition.

He has great powers of concentration.

Great powers do well by doing good.

a person with great powers and abilities.

In the rise and fall of great powers, one lesson the Chinese always learn is that aggression will not pay.

Lovey-dovey, the love of yours gives me great powers!

You are good at analyzing situations and have a practical mentality with great powers of reason.

As one of the great powers of developing countries of the Third World, Brazil is very active.

Nor is it clear whether rising great powers such as Brazil and India will try to fill the void.

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The greAT powers will hold disarmament talks AT the end of this year, but I don't think they'll get together

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