But this administration, like its predecessor, has had difficulty grappling with a rising power that seems eager to avoid direct clashes with the United States but affects its interests in many areas, including currency policy, nuclear proliferation, climate change and military spending.
Perhaps what has taken Giddins all this time -- apart from working on his award-winning "Visions of Jazz" and on the Ken Burns project "Jazz" -- has been the difficulty of grappling with a subject who so successfully presented himself as simple, even transparent, yet who actually was enigmatic, even opaque.
Both companies are grappling with a changed television landscape.
"You're grappling with a lot of the same things we're grappling with, which is the impact of e-books.
A central difficulty of the government's reforms is the need to offer an improved service that is "nonbureaucratic, patient-driven, clinician-led", while also grappling with a requirement to make significant savings.
Marine ecologists have been grappling with a puzzler.
Trans-Mara East sub-County has been grappling with a number of climate-related challenges.
RUSSELL ROBERTSON was grappling with an unusual assignment.
The allocation of a unique personal number to all Swedish citizens and in-migrants facilitated a national database that is envied by many countries still grappling with the difficulty of accurately assessing basic aspects their population's health.
But among all these stories about men grappling with the difficulties of fatherhood, there's a notable lack of any mother protagonists in this year's most prominent hits.
In reality, while grappling with the difficulties of the project, they erected a make-shift shack to hold out the rain in the meantime.
