In a sign of how the deterioration in relations between the two superpowers is starting to affect corporate planning, there was interest in a Financial Times report that said one of China's biggest water-heater manufacturers Vanward New Electric claimed its U.S. clients had demanded it move production out of China in response to the rising tension.

Till this hour St. George's standard Led the advancing march of time; England! keep it streaming vanward, Conqueror over age and clime!'

Vanward the same kind of enclosures, more ornate in their fashion, shut in a grassy court, to which admission was gained through a heavy iron gate swung between square, stuccoed pillars, each of which was surmounted by a couchant lion carved in stone.

The Duke of York so dread The eager vanward led; With the main Henry sped Amongst his henchmen.

But our place must be the vanward, Other leading brook not we— Bearing England's banner onward, The Britannia cleaves the sea.