Though actually building a line to China would be difficult, "Pakistan is smart to talk about China, " says Thomas Pickering, former U.S. Ambassador to India and Russia.

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Global investors have been scrutinizing CIC's investment strategy lately because of frequent market talk about the potential for China to aid the debt-laden euro bloc by purchasing European debt.

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My friends in China talk about the portable medical scanning devices from GE that have been used successfully in the their market for diagnosing patients in rural areas in mobile clinics.

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American executives say that in the past few months they have seen a reversal in the U.S.-China business environment--but most refuse to talk about it publicly for fear of antagonizing China, the fastest-growing big economy.

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Even as the crisis was still raging, in March 2009, Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China started to talk about moving to a different kind of international currency system, with better alternatives to the dollar.

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China says it will talk about its slice once the other two have reached a deal.

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Invited to China in 1977 to talk about his great discovery, a virus that caused hepatitis, and his greater invention, a vaccine to prevent it, he would slip out in the early mornings to run for hours through fields, farmyards or the just-stirring streets of Beijing.

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Mr Gates was in China to talk to its government about a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that would try to identify and fund research that could alleviate poverty.

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In the time we have left Anand talk a little bit if you would about India and China.

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How can governments sensibly talk about pressing issues such as global imbalances or energy prices without China being present?

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Now, he said, Chinese people are encouraged to talk to foreigners because the government wants them to learn about the world outside China.

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The two have held seminars and workshops in China with executives from companies including Siemens, Bayer, BASF and Boeing to talk about ethics in a local context.

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