This turned the US into a huge debtor.

In terms of countries, the obvious new pair comprises the US, the world s largest debtor, and China, its greatest saver.

The man he chooses holds office...He it is who decides peace and war...He is king in all but name.

Tourism, particularly by Indian pilgrims to a major Hindu holy site in Tibet, is thriving.

China has now overtaken the US as India s largest single trading partner.

Nor is its purpose to find and exploit the largest market.

Chinese journalists at a major newspaper have gone on strike to protest against censorship.

China has now overtaken the United States as India s largest single trading partner.

Curious travelers are, therefore, restricted to snapping pictures of the uglier side of Kazakhstan's largest city.

Check also the Humans of Chiang Mai page. Chiang Mai is located north of Thailand.

And the US has already taken over from Russia as the world s largest gas producer.

Europe has become ground zero for the biggest expansion of IMF lending and influence in years.

International trade is also the reason for the large number of consulates in the city.

The intergovernmental Energy Charter Treaty, which obliges signatories to apply impartial market rules to energy products and services, has not been signed by the US, the world s second largest energy consumer, or ratified by Russia, the world s largest oil producer.

The major Russian domain provider RU Center has recently frozen the domain of the biggest Russian torrent trackers service Torrents.ru.

The towns and cities of Oromia, Ethiopia s largest administrative region where the Oromo people are concentrated, are normally bustling.

He spent the summer of 1866 at the University of Göttingen, then and later a center for mathematical research.

Including the hospital, university and in the future European Spallation Source.

At the northern tip of Jiangxi, Lake Poyang, the biggest freshwater lake in China, merges into the river.

That is especially true of China, the world s second largest creditor country (and America s largest creditor).

Any focus on trade imbalances thus should center on the major global imbalance that of the US.

The vast, 832 square mile body of water is Ethiopia's largest lake, and is packed with ecological, cultural and historical charm.

So the Taliban are obtaining ample funds from the heroin trade easily Afghanistan s largest single source of foreign earnings.

Moreover, Germany has been among Israel s most reliable allies, exemplified by its role as a major arms supplier.

Hatoyama s assertiveness vis à vis the US is in accord with Japan s position as the world s largest creditor with the least damaged banking sector.

China has become Europe s biggest trading partner, and its huge reserves of US dollars has made it America s most important creditor.

Below is an excerpt of the article Sugar Days, which examines the environmental impact of the biggest sugar mill in Western Cuba.

From 2003 2005, long before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the renminbi appreciated by 20 .

Lufthansa is one of the five founding members of the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, formed in 1997.

All at once, he is taking on responsibility for the strategy of a bank that has once again proven that it has long deserved the title of Europe's biggest banking scandal.

Indeed, the country could develop into a mini China, placing massive manufacturing capacity immediately adjacent to the global economy s largest integrated market.

The industry front runner for Sukhoi Log is believed to be a consortium of the largest gold mining company in the Russian Federation, PJSC Polyus (which is controlled by Suleiman Kerimov's son, Said), and Rostec.

Modi is even featured in advertisements for Reliance Jio, a recently launched range of fast, cheap mobile internet services from India s biggest conglomerate.

Consider a developing country that has free and preferential market access to its largest neighbor, which also happens to be the world s most powerful economy.

But the first step is a customs union, and, in the case of the Eurasian Union, it had to include Ukraine, Russia s largest neighbor to the west.

Or they can decide to move toward Europe, perhaps in the distant future joining the EU as its largest and perhaps most influential member.

France will overtake Italy as the largest borrower on the international markets, within the eurozone, which means that France will find itself in a very precarious situation.

Authorities in Oromia, Ethiopia s largest state, have infuriated language experts and Oromo nationalists with their decision to re arrange the order of the alphabet of the region s language, Afan Oromo.

He underestimated both Ukraine s leverage as the primary conduit for Russian gas exports to Europe and Europe s influence as the major consumer of Russian gas.

Thus, the renminbi is unlikely to challenge the dollar s role as the largest component of world reserves (more than 60 ) in the next decade.

On mainland China, Alibaba recently made history by raising 25 billion in the world s largest initial public offering to date.

The story of Serdyukov with his miraculous deliverance from a criminal case after a major corruption scandal and the subsequent return to the civil service is a direct confirmation of this.

Afghan girls wore traditional clothes at a catwalk show last week in the centre of Afghanistan's capital and largest city.

It is only a matter of time before one of the large European crisis countries elects a political leadership that no longer accepts the austerity diktats.

More than a month has passed since the biggest Russian demonstrations of the last decade in Bolotnaya Square, Moscow.