Only in the middle of March did China allow in a team of specialists from the WHO to help work out the cause of the disease and how best to prevent it spreading further.
For Chu, the Dubai China Fund is only the most recent expression of his faith in the Middle East as China's once and future primary market for its companies.
High growth rates, the emergence of large middle classes in countries like China and India, the continuing integration of the global economy--all this is powered by energy.
Within a generation, the middle class in China will be roughly four times the size of the American middle class population, according to the UN Population Division and Goldman Sachs.
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These areas are right down the middle in terms of where China is heading and are very active.
Yet, the problem for many other places that are emblematic of an old Beijing is that, in 21st-century China, they are caught in the middle of a collision between history and modernity.
Over the last decade, the exploding middle class in China has changed the fate of the shark.
Apple has been the target of criticism in China's state-run media since the middle of last month.
Drinking and eating out at Starbucks is considered cool and caters to the aspirational desires of the upper middle class in China.
EU, could help with three broader challenges that America frets most about over the next 20 years: the democratisation of the Middle East, the growth of China and, to a lesser extent, developments in Russia.
On Sunday the state-run China News Agency said a middle school in the nearby town of Baoxing had been heavily damaged.
According to the Boston Consulting Group (its partners reported some of their insights in Forbes here), a consumer company doing business in 70 locations (cities and counties) in China could reach 70% of consumers in the middle and affluent classes as of 2005.
The lesson of centuries of economic history is that China is likely to get stuck in the middle: neither a poor economy nor a rich one.
"For fast-moving, everyday consumer goods, there are some broad megatrends that will continue to push demand forward, which are ongoing urbanization in China and then, of course, the related growth of the middle class, " Hein Schumacher, the China chief for food maker H.
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There are some signs of hope: demand is falling in the rich world and slowing in fast-growing parts of the developing world, such as China and the Middle East.
In China, the rise of the middle class is shifting the economy more towards consumption.
In China, the disposable income of middle-class families is more likely to be spent on education than leisure or entertainment.
Mr. Hong: It's one of the most dynamic and convenient cities to work and live in because it's good for both family life and work life, and is in the middle of the Asia region, right next door to China and within a four-hour flight to most of the region's capital cities.
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The vast majority of those added in recent months are in the Middle East, as well as emerging markets such as China, India and Russia.
Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
This intricate web of history places the Middle Eastern societies in a special tension with Europe that is not similarly present in the story of modern India, nor China.
One source of new revenue is the growing middle class in India, China and other emerging markets.
Natural-history museums that are popping up in China, Japan, and the Middle East have been accused of being willing to buy from anyone.
And that tells you that there are other things beyond our control, like unrest in the Middle East, or other factors like the growth of emerging countries such as China and India.
All the while, China continues to blaze new trails beyond the Middle East in search of strategic supplies.
However, the biggest growth rates in luxury sales remain in emerging markets, such as Russia, Brazil, the Middle East and, of course, China.
By the end of this decade, there will be a billion middle-class consumers in China and India.
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In India, China, Africa and the Middle East, solar should soon be a significant source of power.
Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
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