Although China is making it possible for Africans to visit, study and work in China, it is not asking, or requesting, other countries to emulate it or support its values.
Is it because China has 22% of the world's population but only 7% of its fresh water?
Yet keenly as Shantou is feeling the region's pain, it is still China.
It is China's extraordinary human resources that will lift it to its rightful destiny of leadership and widely held prosperity in the 21st century.
The stock market is more volatile in China than it is in the U.S., and interest rates in China are low, around 3.5 percent for deposit rates.
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And wage growth in Mexico is flat, while it is rising in China.
The iPhone has been available in China since 2009 through China Unicom and it is likely that China Telecom launches the iPhone 4S on its CDMA network early next year.
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Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has also announced that it is having a China rethink, admitting it had made mistakes in its haste to expand and saying that it has cut by one-half the amount of new square footage that it will add in the country.
Second, it is assumed that China applied due diligence before it pursued such an investment, and determined that it was to the best of its own interests.
The life insurance industry is an interesting one in China because it is, in essence, another piece of the puzzle that may ultimately explain how China will make the transition from an economy led by exports and government investment, to one that that is led by consumption and investment by the private sector.
With the rapid industrialization that has occurred in China, it is no surprise that China is now the largest market for machine tools in the world.
Beyond the sheer size of the market, Kodak is keen on China because it is the one place in the world where it is clearly trouncing Fuji.
And that is why it is so important that China as well as countries around the globe -- major economies around the globe need to take the necessary actions to continue economic growth and continue job creation.
First, it is much smaller than China, so it will have to be more export-oriented and it will have to work harder for foreign investment.
Japanese manufacturers are making less at home and more abroad, especially in China (Toshiba has just announced that it is shifting to China all production of television sets for the Japan market).
As it is, China is gently loosening controls on yuan flows, but only a little.
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The choice is as stark for China as it is for America, South Korea and Japan.
And yet it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient.
Is it possible that China's local carmakers have grown so quickly that they have not developed the necessary depth of skills?
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As it is, China is moving from an export driven economy to a more Western one that is geared to its local consumers.
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But desertification is not limited to China and it is fast becoming a serious global problem that will only be exacerbated by climate change.
It is in China's interests to build confidence with its neighbours, reduce mutual strategic distrust with America and demonstrate its willingness to abide by global norms.
These days it is China that is stepping up defence spending, and the United Arab Emirates is set to field more advanced combat aircraft than the RAF.
But as should be no surprise, it is China that is emerging as a huge buyer of gold (this is according to a recent piece in CNBC).
It is China, xie xie, thank you very much.
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Called Made in America, Again, it focused on China and concluded that by 2015 it will be just as cheap for companies to produce goods with a high labour content in the US as it is in China.
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It is China's largest foreign takeover.
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