Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner was a formidable figure in the Peking community, a genuine China hand who was fluent in Mandarin, courageous and very curious.
Moreover, the improving global PMIs in recent months likely have contributed to this fact, given U.S. ISM above at 51.5 for the first time in four months giving China a hand.
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Chinalco took its original stake in the hopes of blocking a merger that China feared would hand too much control of iron ore prices to one company.
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Few among the visiting support would have predicted that Celtic manager Tony Mowbray would hand China captain Zheng Zhi his debut, while Lee Naylor made his first start of the season.
For less sanguine investors, the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation.
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On the other hand, China and India represent true ascendant economies of the next decade and beyond.
FORBES: It will take more than a recession to keep the country down.
On the other hand, China does not seem headed for a bust, not for now at any rate.
On the other hand, China is growing at a much faster pace and it has a much larger population.
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But thanks to U.S. shale developments, China has played its hand very well.
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China on the other hand has a GDP growth rate close to 12% with a net savings rate in excess of 46%.
On the other hand, China is implacably opposed to the US or Nato intervening in what it calls the internal affairs of other countries.
Its owner, retired insurance executive Ron Gunnell, says the estate includes 11 miles of crown molding, 80 tons of steel to support the slate roof from China and 52 interior hand-marbleized columns.
In China, on the other hand, inventory accumulation can go on for years before it negatively affects growth.
China, on the other hand, has a relatively mature human spaceflight program that is nearly a decade old.
China, on the other hand, is growing more comfortable with the WTO machinery.
Thirty-three-year-old Liu Yang, also a military pilot, has on the other hand emerged as China's first woman astronaut after just two years of training.
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Higher taxes combined with more and more regulations are stifling many start-up companies in the U.S. China, on the other hand, is encouraging start-up companies and provides generous incentives to those who create industry.
Savers in China itself, on the other hand, are scrambling to swap their yuan savings for gold bullion accounts instead.
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The U.S. needs to play an even hand, says the China veteran.
"For all the drama and hand-wringing about China and Middle East investment, they haven't broken into the top 50, " says Todd Malan, OFII's president and chief executive officer.
On the other hand, strong demand from China has helped Canada's exports of raw materials.
With respect to the economy, there is much unnecessary hand wringing as far as China is concerned.
China's economy, on the other hand, is still largely controlled by the state.
China's technology sector, on the other hand, has few options.
Many Latin Americans feel their hand would be strengthened if they bargained with China as a block.
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