From The China Daily:
It is a media tradition to look back at what has happened in the past year and how things will go in the year ahead. For Western media in general, a popular topic in the recent year-ender and prediction season is China.
The Independent (daily newspaper) of Great Britain, for example, ran a series of articles about China on its online edition earlier this month. The authors described China as the world’s newest superpower, the third largest economy in the world, the leading consumer society and an engine of economic growth. They said China’s contribution to the world economy surpassed that of the US, that “Owned by China” will one day be as common as “Made in China” and that China’s culture of innovation will spread to the rest of the world, and so on. [Full Text]
