The Chinese insurance market has great potential.

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Everyone is waking up to the potential of the Chinese market.

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This is prompted, presumably, by the greater potential scale of the Chinese market.

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Thus, the Chinese elevator market also has a lot of growth potential.

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So, where is the potential problem that has had the Chinese stock market concerned since last July, well before the debt crisis in Europe popped up as an additional worry?

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Yet resilience in U.S. and U.K. markets, along with the potential inherent in a Chinese turnaround, suggest the art market presents an opportunity.

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Supposing that the real wealth of affluent Chinese lies somewhere between the two estimates, China's potential market must be somewhere between those of Belgium and Australia.

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However, a Chinese bid would make a lot of sense given the potential in that growing market.

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Chih-Jou Jay Chen, a researcher at Taiwan's Academia Sinica, said senior Chinese leaders in the 1990s also saw Mr. Wu's careful approach as a potential alternative should market economics fail.

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