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People watch as the Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft moves to the launch pad at the Jiuquan launch center in Jiuquan, in China's northwest Gansu province, on Saturday, June 9, 2012. (AP Photo)

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The extended peacetime competition with China "at its heart is a clash of visions for the international system," Rep. J. Randy Forbes, Virginia Republican, says. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to travel to China in the coming weeks. Israel and China established diplomatic relations in 1992, and the two countries traded military technology for nearly a decade.

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** FILE ** Youths hang out near a McDonald's restaurant at a train station in Shenyang in northern China's Liaoning province. (Associated Press)

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Misty May-Treanor receives the ball during the first round of the women's match with her partner Kerri Walsh in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Grand Slam in China, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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**FILE** Officers of the urban management bureau, known as chengguan in Chinese, demand Nov. 20, 2011, a beggar and his child leave a street in Guiyang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. (Associated Press)

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A foreign woman teases a Chinese boy at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. First, videos of rude foreigners went viral in Chinese cyberspace. Then, a Beijing police crackdown on visitors without valid visas drew fervent applause. And finally, a state TV host urged his countrymen to toss out the "foreign trash."The latest anti-foreigner stirring in China has put the spotlight on outsiders at a time when its leaders would welcome any distraction from the slowing economy, a high-level political scandal and a blind activist's daring flight into U.S. custody. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A partial annular solar eclipse is reflected in a pool of water in Beijing, China, Monday, May 21, 2012. Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Monday. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across the continent. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A partial annular solar eclipse is seen over Beijing, China, Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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** FILE ** In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012, and released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, at a hospital in Beijing. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, File)

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**FILE** Lai Changxing (center), once called China's most wanted fugitive, signs a warrant issued for his arrest July 23, 2011, as he arrives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing. (Associated Press/Xinhua)