| 1 | The movement is now in the ascendant. | |
| 2 | Our mutual investment is in the ascendant and has brought rich benefits to both sides," Wen said. | |
| 3 | The bar is part of Hangzhou's burgeoning nightlife scene, which is an acquired taste. | |
| 4 | It's useful to keep that in mind as the trope about soft power again gets earnestly bandied about, only this time with China as the newly ascendant power. | |
| 5 | But newfound interest in ivory from China is reversing those gains, researchers and NGOs say. |