AUG. 18, 2009: A woman rinses rice in a pot as others sort garbage at a trash recycling center in Beijing, China. For China, this decade was a time when the massive nation began to reshape the world in both basic and big ways. After spending much of the '80s and '90s with their heads down, retooling their shattered economy, the Chinese started peering beyond the horizon and striding out far beyond their borders. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)
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