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Graph 1: Google Ngram for ‘China and the West’, ‘Russia and the West’, ‘India and the West’, ‘Japan and the West’, ‘Iran and the West’, 1900-2019, Corpus: English (2019), smoothing: 3. The British and American parts of the English corpus together have around 190 billion words, from printed texts digitised in the Google Book corpus. The frequency measurement on the Y-axis is percentage of the word/phrase occurrence in the whole corpus; the X-axis shows the year in which works in the corpus were published.
Graph 2: Google Ngram of ‘China and the West’ and ‘the West and China’, 1900-2019. In 2019, the former was used more than 7 times more frequently than the latter.
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