Any more thoughts on how bad China wine is now and how it will evolve?
If there is one thing African states can learn through China, it is how to imagine their own future, explore new possibilities, and engage with the rest of the world while retaining control over the conditions of those engagements.
Looking ahead, China is likely to meet its growth targets, but it is not clear how rapidly China will re-balance its pattern of growth.
It is another to work out where it is going and how it gets past China's strict capital controls.
Considering the giant consumer of materials that is China, it is easy to see how a report which confirms that growth is still robust could spur commodities prices higher.
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So perhaps another way to think of it is that China itself may not have resolved the question of how grown up it is and what that means.
It is well articulated, and it provides a great feel for those running China today and for those who oppose how it is being run.
This book is a fun read, and it quickly brings to light how China is nothing like Kansas.
But American officials know just how prickly China can get when it is accused of mercantilism.
That is hardly how it has been portrayed in China, however, where manipulating memory is an important tool of government propaganda.
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China lacks technology know-how because it is an imitator rather than an innovator an irony for a country that has invented a number of products that have changed the course of history.
Cendant's Super 8 budget entry knows that it, too, needs local know-how in China and figures its franchising model is the way to get it.
For a newcomer to China, it is also a reminder of how rapidly this country has grown, and how much disposable income at least some people have.
How this immediately helps Google or the US depends how China reacts in the coming days but it is reportedly fuming that Google is effectively acting as a serious diplomatic lever at the moment.
In China, slaughtering methods vary and it is unclear how often pigs are stunned first so they don't feel pain.
The central bank of China knows the dollar is declining, but the central bank of China knows how to short the dollar if it gets too hairy.
China is giving some indication of just how far it's willing to go to fight global warming.
It is unclear, officially, how China's stance has affected nations who have said they are not attending the award ceremony.
"We caution people that in trying to win this vote the proponents may have oversold the openness of the Chinese markets, and how easy it is to make profits in China, " he added.
Considering how many of the men who run China are engineers, it is surprising this message has not yet got through.
The investment community finally got a clear picture of how business is done in China, did not like what it saw, and dumped the stock.
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Yet it is a mistake to overlook just how far China has come.
Its failure now supports the opposite stance: that China is getting pickier about what projects it supports and how that support plays out.
The officials said the report -- much like a recent CIA review -- says it is difficult to determine exactly how much progress China made through espionage and how much from other sources, including its own nuclear program, cooperation with Russia and access to unclassified documents about the U.S. nuclear program.
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As debates over whether or how China should internationalize its currency, the renminbi, rage on, it is striking to see what remains missing from the dialogue: Africa.
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He was, it is said, also deeply interested in learning how China had opened up, questioning in particular how it could be done without damaging the future of socialism.
There are myriad articles about how difficult it is for Western high-tech firms to compete in China.
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