"A great friend of China" is how China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying described Hugo Chavez after his death was announced.
The Street is way behind on seeing how important China is, except for the Ticonderoga analyst.
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Rebecca Fannin is the author of Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race.
What is surprising, though, is just how big the China market is compared to the other industrialized countries of the world.
We took a look at how rapidly China is changing by examining some cool interactives made by Chinfographics.
Confusion about how fast China is growing can hamper foreign and private companies in industries from construction to chemicals to consumer goods as they make plans for business and investment.
However, state media have taken care to emphasise how China is balancing an "all-weather" friendship with Islamabad with improved ties with India for the benefit of South Asia's stability and economic development.
In addition to the philanthropic and other, more personal, reasons that drive such monumental gifts as this one, the Schwarzman endowment highlights how important China is to leading financiers in the coming decades.
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
As much as anything, that is an indication of how much global attention is on China as an investment theme.
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.
What I saw on the week-long trip demonstrated how actively involved China is with Africa.
Raising cashmere goats in the U.S. is a challenge, given how much cheap fiber is available from China.
So we have another thing to think about, how much steel scrap is China going to generate internally?
"I know how business is done in China, and you don't, " Ji responded, as the adviser, who later left Apex, recalls the conversation.
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.
Like Apple, Walmart is finally fighting back with a rare series of media interviews aimed to show how the company is still expanding in China.
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Of these, the most common is Mandarin, yet another reminder of how China specifically, and immigration more generally, is continually changing the character of Australia.
Nobody really knows how much gold is held by China because producers and importers do not typically report their purchases.
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One of the big unknowns in China is how Chinese born after economic reforms began in 1978 will respond to government authority as they move into the workforce.
This shows how big the opportunity is in China.
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The trading of live birds - how poultry is traditionally sold in China - has also been halted at a market in the Zhejiang city of Hangzhou, after the virus was detected in quail being sold there.
Silberg said his take on the results is that the car companies and related industries are realizing how important auto lending is going to be in China once auto sales become a truly mass-market phenomenon.
We had an interesting chat about how the venture space is changing in China.
But it sends a mixed signal as to how involved Burger King is in the China market.
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