WorldPost contributing editor Nayan Chanda connects the dots, writing that China is seizing every opportunity it can to expand its dominance of East Asia as America is preoccupied at home and elsewhere while sending uncertain signals to its allies.
The deal, if it happens, would mark a second major move by Google to expand its dominance of the advertising market to TV.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has stepped into the fray, saying it was "urgently necessary" to step up European investment in Eastern Europe and central Asia in order to prevent China from expanding its dominance in raw materials and rare minerals.
European regulators are set on Friday to approve a reduced version of the Universal Music Group's $1.9 billion takeover of EMI Music, allowing Universal to expand its dominance as the world's largest music company but significantly paring down its ambitions, according to several people involved in the talks.
There is no doubt that Google has tremendous potential to expand its dominance in coming years.
The takeover would allow Seattle-based Alaska Airlinexpandexpand its dominance in the Pacific Northwest to California, where Virgin America now serves Silicon Valley business leaders and Hollywood elites flying between the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
That's not a huge number in global subscriber terms, but it does give Apple room to expand its smartphone dominance in the U.S., and could provide it a late-stage bump for the iPhone 5, which is going to face increasing pressure from new competing flagship devices like the Samsung Galaxy S4.
Amazon expands its ecommerce dominance by snapping up the one company online shoppers may love more than Amazon itself.
Following the defeat of Napoleonic France in 1815, Britain enjoyed a century of almost unchallenged dominance and expanded its imperial holdings around the globe.
It has since expanded its focus.
