Friday File: Where Do the GOP Candidates Stand on China’s Rise?
Friday, September 30, 2011
Chinese Jian-10 fighter jets of China Air Force fly at Yangcun Air Force base. (Petar Kujundzic/courtesy Reuters)

Chinese Jian-10 fighter jets of China Air Force fly at Yangcun Air Force base. (Petar Kujundzic/courtesy Reuters)

Security Council members meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters)

A young girl displaced for almost a year by heavy floods stands outside of her family's tent donated by USAID in Sukkur, Pakistan. (Akhtar Soomro/courtesy Reuters)

A Pakistani solider stands guard next to relief goods sent by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). (Mian Khursheed/courtesy Reuters)

Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (at center) with senior army officials and scientists of Pakistan Army Strategic Force Command before the test firing of a nuclear-capable missile. (Courtesy Reuters)

A formation of military fighter jets perform during an Air Force demonstration in Taipei. (Nicky Loh/courtesy Reuters)

President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations in New York on September 24, 1996. (Jeff Christensen/courtesy Reuters)
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