Trade numbers for 2012 show that China has become the world’s biggest trader, unseating the United States that has ruled the global trading charts for several decades. It is a momentous shift that is bound to have far-reaching impact on the way Beijing sees itself and the manner it influences geopolitics.

As it becomes the biggest trading partner of many developed countries, eclipsing their bilateral trade trends, a China flushed with cash, has the ability to increasingly push its agenda even in places where it has been seen as a security threat. After all, business means money and nobody wants to make any less if there is an opportunity to make more. That’s why countries with close commercial ties seldom go to war.

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