China has jewelry chains with a least 1000 outlets or more across China, according to the World Gold Council.
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According to the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey, based on questioning in April, the proportion of respondents who think China has already replaced America as the world's leading superpower, or will do so one day, was 63% in China, 65% in Britain and 46% even in America (up from 33% as recently as 2009).
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"I'm convinced that China or Asia or other parts of the world will pass us by unless we get serious about strengthening the ability to compete, " Romney told the convention delegates.
Unlike the Soviet Union or China in the 1950s, Iran is not sealed off from the world.
They're no longer worried, I think, about our economy being overwhelmed either by Europe writ large, the EU, or China somehow swallowing up every bit of innovation that exists in the world.
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If that happened to a country the size of China or India, it would double the number of infected people in the world by itself.
Solar power, on the other hand, is considered a clean technology in which China has openly sought world prominence, or dominance, using public markets in the West in the process.
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But some manufacturing company executives also argued that European industry was holding its own against both the old-world competition from the US and Japan and newer rivals from China or India.
If China, Japan or the assorted despots of the Muslim world are ever to challenge the United States for supremacy, they will have to take a long hard look at their endemically weak societies of silent conformists.
The definition is fluid, but popular culture, language, film, music and mass media all certainly fit the bill, and China is making or at least trying to make inroads on all those fronts around the world.
India may not have the bad-debt problems of the rich world, or even China.
China, within a year or two, will be the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, while India is also growing rapidly.
Guo is no novice to the international business world or to China.
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Yet I rarely listen to or read the opinions of people like me who are bullish on China's economy, like World Bank officials or Jim Rogers.
So, despite what the World Bank economist hopes, China will not become the next Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan.
No Chinese in the world will stand a disunited China, or breakaway of Taiwan.
As a Chinese citizen, I would appreciate being allowed to tell you how I feel about some assertions that China is a potential threat to the Asia Pacific or even the world.
Ignoring China, or even just making decisions based on a view of the world that steadily grows more and more out-dated, is no longer an option.
But as Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, points out, that link seems to have gone, perhaps because of excess capacity at home, or because China's increasing presence in world trade pushes the prices of manufactured goods and labour down.
China was stocking all the copper it could get on world metals markets or from large producers like Freeport McMoran, FCX on the NYSE.
In China and most of the industrialised world, births and deaths are at or below replacement level (though America's population still rises because of immigration).
Communist China arguably has no better or more powerful friend in the whole of the Western world than the man President Bush has just appointed to be this nation's chief financial officer: Henry Paulson.
Drawing from international experience, the World Bank suggested that China could raise contribution rates, or use general revenues or dedicated social security taxes to cover contingent liabilities, in addition to direct transfers of state-owned assets.
The President places great importance on this relationship because there are few diplomatic, economic or security challenges in the world that can be addressed without China at the table and without a broad, productive, and constructive relationship between our countries.
Clearly China and Russia do not represent our biggest adversaries in the world today, or the nations that we perceive to pose the greatest threat in terms of their intent to harm U.S. interests.
In two petitions with some 500 signatures between them, China specialists around the world have urged the government either to release those detained or to charge and try them openly, and to end what appears to be a campaign of intimidation.
It is true that the Bank's lending has become more focused on social sectors recently, and it is also true that the majority of the world's poor people live in countries such as China or Brazil, which do have access to capital markets.
But China has not sought to ease the Americans or Europeans out from their dominant roles in the World Bank and the IMF.
And that's why the President, when he goes to another country he makes it a point to visit and to speak with students all around the world -- whether he was in Europe or Cairo or China -- he always reaches out to young people.
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