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China's emphasis on modernization has required extensive financing and increasing access to oil. The Middle East has become China's fourth largest partner, but developing this commerce has sometimes involved China in political controversies and regional issues. Being so late in entering the region - and having less to offer in economic or technology terms than the United States, Russia, Japan, and Europe-China must go after marginal or risky markets where others cannot or will not go, supplying customers no one else will service with goods no one else will sell them. Yet while China wants to exploit and expand such links, it does not want to sacrifice too much regarding relations with the United States or incur costs in other, more important, policy areas.