At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig.
China is now Indiaâs top trading partnerâand one of its least liked. Some of China's mountain of imports into India. India and Chinaâtwo massive, neighboring Asian emerging economies, each home to over a billion peopleâare on the way to forming one of the worldâs largest trade relationships.
Top 10 trading partners of the Chinese mainland. The trade volume of the Chinese mainland hit a record high of $4.16 trillion in 2013, overtaking the United States, $3.91 trillion, to become the world's largest trading nation. The fastest-growing economy in the globe added another feather in its cap by posting better-than-expected trade volume in January, 2014.