So this nationalist outlook led to MII adopting a Chinese 3G standard TD-SCDMA which became a long saga for network deployment.

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China Mobile, like all Chinese carriers, uses a unique technology standard (TD-SCDMA) for its 3G cellular network.

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Apple, which operates eight retail stores in Chinawas criticized for providing a lower standard of after-sales service to Chinese consumers, including only offering a one-year warranty instead of the two years, as required by Chinese laws.

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But if Wal-Mart either raises the quality of Chinese imports, or implements their standard return policy (or both), then South Africans will have much more value for the money they spend.

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Observers believe the Chinese are hard at work developing a homegrown advanced standard, known as TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous cdma), and that 3G licenses will appear once TD-SCDMA is ready.

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Another would be to call it what it is: a blatant double-standard that has the effect of excusing and enabling Islamists, the Chinese Communists and other totalitarians to engage in mass and often brutal repression of Christians for simply exercising religious liberties our country claims to consider unalienable.

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The politics of Chinese relations in the U.S. is a surprising mix that can defy standard right-left divisions.

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