Workers wait for a bus after work in Beijing, China on March 13, 2006. After nearly three decades of startling 10 percent annual growth, China`s economy recently surpassed Britain, France and Italy to become the fourth-largest in the world. China now effects almost everything, from competition for jobs, prospects for the global economy, the things people buy, the vanishing rainforests, the price of oil, to the balance of world power. |
