美国一家名为“全球语言监测”的媒体研究机构分析，“中国崛起”成为近10年来全球阅读量最大的新闻报道。该机构表示，自2000年以来，中国崛起为经济强国这一现象引起了全球最广泛的关注，其受关注程度已超过伊拉克战争和911袭击事件。该机构负责人称，这一排名是根据因特网、博客空间、社交媒体以及全球知名的5万家纸质和电子媒体站点对中国崛起这一事件的引述数量列出的。国内有关专家对此发表评论，表示此举可能是想督促中国在应对全球金融危机和气候变化对话中分担更多的责任。

　　A US media tracker has listed "therise of China" as the most read news story of this decade, adevelopment that Chinese experts say is the latest attempt by theWestern media to tout China for their own good。

　　The ascent of China as an economicsuperpower has attracted the widest coverage since 2000, surpassing theIraq War and Sept 11 attack on the US, according to an analysis by theGlobal Language Monitor。

　　"It is with little surprise that its(China's) ongoing transformation has topped all other news stories in adecade bespotted by war, economic catastrophe and natural disasters,"Reuters quoted Paul JJ Payack, president of the Global LanguageMonitor, as having said。

　　Payack said the ranking was based onthe number of citations on the Internet and the blogosphere, includingsocial media, as well as the top 50,000 print and electronic mediasites。

　　But Pang Zhongying, a professor ofinternational studies at Beijing-based Renmin University of China, saidthe move was partly aimed at trumpeting the so-called China threat。

　　"The list is the latest sign of the US media's change from China bashing to China flattery," he said。

　　Late last month, US broadcasting giantABC ranked Premier Wen Jiabao as one of the 10 most influential peopleon the US economy in the past decade。

　　Although the moves show the US mediahas come to accept China's economic success, they put China in adisadvantageous position, said Fan Ying, a professor at Beijing-basedChina Foreign Affairs University。

　　The recent rise in the level of "Chinaflattery" appears to push the world's third largest economy - but whichhas 16 million poor people - to shoulder greater responsibility amidthe global financial crisis and climate change talks, she said。

　　"The West is now keen to picture Chinaas an economic giant so that it could ask Beijing to do a lot more thanit has committed, such as rolling out a fresh stimulus package,revaluating its currency, reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissionsfurther and continuing to buy US bonds," she said。

　　China is one of the very few majoreconomies that has kept growing during the global economic recession,prompting the West to urge it to pull the world out of the worst economic crisis in seven decades。

　　Many countries, including largehistoric GHG emitters, have urged China to commit to deeper emissioncuts in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference, where 192countries and regions are discussing a new deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol。