There are currency dodges and fictitious China-Hong Kong-China transactions.
While Apple already has deals with two Chinese mobile operators - China Unicom and China Telecom - it is yet to strike a partnership with China Mobile, the biggest operator in the world in terms of subscriber volume.
But it seems Apple might have to foot a part of the subsidy bill and take a hit on margins for such a contract to happen. (see Apple Faces China Mobile-Sized Stumbling Block Limiting China Upside Potential) Penetrating China could mean long-term margin pressures as well as the company seeks to compete against the rapidly growing Android market, mitigated to an extent by the carrier subsidies.
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On Friday, coinciding with the U.S.-China film deal, DreamWorks Animation announced a joint venture with China Media Capital (CMC) and two other Chinese companies to establish a China-focused family entertainment company, Oriental DreamWorks.
Shares in Shanghai-based China Eastern and Guangzhou-based China Southern both gained 3% overnight in trading in New York.
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After the prohibition had been enactment, the OSTP participated in a series of meetings with Chinese officials as part of the U.S.-China Dialogue on Innovation Policy and the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Washington, D.
He is focused on the need to advance U.S. interests in our broad-based relationship with China -- very important economic, diplomatic relationship with China.
For the market where it actually could be an issue, China, the majority of companies I talk to take an everyone-in-China-is-a-government-official stance.
Initiatives such as the Asian-African Strategic Partnership established to improve investment opportunities between Asia and Africa, the annual China-Africa Co-operation Forum and frequent trips by high-level Chinese officials to resource-rich countries such as South Africa and Nigeria have bolstered the China-Africa relationship.
Royal Dutch Shell said it has signed its first-ever production sharing contract for shale gas in China with state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
The Joint Command of the US Armed Forces hosted the very first US-China joint military concert, on my birthday, in my hometown, to celebrate thirty years of US-China engagement.
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In February, the heads of China's three state-controlled oil and gas majors -- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) -- met one of Russia's most influential players in the energy sector, Igor Sechin, chief executive of state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Recent reports from three lobbies for foreign businesses, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, the European Chamber of Commerce in China and the US-China Business Council, bear out this gloomy view.
Today, the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released its annual report to Congress, offering an authoritative assessment of current trends in U.S.-China relations that will have negative consequences for our long-term economic and national security interests.
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Indeed, the issue soured the mood at a ministerial-level China-Arab forum held in Tianjin in northern China.
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Large, state-controlled lenders China Development Bank Corp. and Export-Import Bank of China are planning to pitch dim-sum bonds in London to investors, said people familiar with the matter.
Among the five Brics nations--Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa--all but China are rated just a notch above junk by global credit-rating firms.
Overseas visits: 6-12 September 2008, to Beijing, China, to attend the second UK-China Leadership of the Future Forum.
American executives say that in the past few months they have seen a reversal in the U.S.-China business environment--but most refuse to talk about it publicly for fear of antagonizing China, the fastest-growing big economy.
Head for the Bank of China Tower designed by China-born American architect IM Pei in 1990.
In most cases the research they are doing is related to China, or to Japan-China economic relations.
He also suggested that operators could tap the domestic stock market for investment, rather than - as China Mobile and China Unicom have done - resorting to the Hong Kong bourse for a listing.
Even the most bull-in-a-china-shop communicator can learn techniques for building rapport, resolving conflict gracefully, etc.
She helped restore U.S. relations worldwide that had been damaged by the bull-in-a-china-shop policies of the George W. Bush administration.
In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".
After naval clashes with Vietnam and the Philippines -- which claim parts of the South China Sea alongside Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan -- China has further angered its neighbours by printing a map of its extensive maritime claim, known as the "nine-dotted line" in new passports.
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