Forty percent of Americans now say China is the world's leading economic power, while 33% say the same about the United States. In 2000, nearly two-thirds of Americans considered the United States to be the leading economic power

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The traditional way of life in Tibet is coming under threat from China's economic advances. Tony Cheng, reporting for Al Jazeera from Tibet, examines how Chinese state investment is attracting more Han Chinese to the region, who are in turn taking jobs and resources away from ethnic Tibetans.