Tsai, who controls rice-based snack and flavored milk giant Want Want China Holdings, and family members used personal funds to outbid Lai, head of Next Media.
At an off-the-record roundtable discussion prior to dinner, I enjoyed chatting on the side with Everett Chu, CFO and executive director of Want Want China, the snack and beverage entity that is on our list.
"Both candidates, they made it clear that they want to treat China as a partner and that they want China to play by the rules, " Wang said.
Perhaps even more to the point, China's M2 measure of money supply was up 19.5% this November compared to last (Want China Times, quoting China's Southern Weekly, has an excellent, concise article on this subject here, and really nails the issue on its head).
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"Any foreign company in pharmaceuticals, if they want to come to China, if they want a partner, we will be partners, " he says.
And they want China to stop making it difficult for American companies to sell legal versions of their movies and music.
Yesterday in a speech before business leaders, you said that you want China to play by the rules.
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It also risks increasing U.S. ownership of the problem at a time when we want China to do more.
Nor is it clear that U.S. companies even want China to change.
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"The view of many Chinese, including the media, is that they want China to be tougher, especially in the face of provocation, " she said.
We want China to continue to achieve its development goals.
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We want China to succeed and prosper.
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But I actually think in terms of a strategic outlook, it remains the same -- which is both of our nations deeply engaged with China as it rises and we want to see China rise into the global rules-based order.
If we really want to regain ground relative to China, if we want to stand up to the Chinese in self-preservation, invest more in America.
Want Want competes in China with the likes of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Unilever and Wahaha.
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U.S. companies want access to China's burgeoning market for renewable energy, and clean and efficient technologies.
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Secondly, it should be obvious that we in the United States want to support China's economic growth.
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"I don't want to see China, U.S. and Russia to enter, how do you say, a new cycle of competition, " he said.
And several jealous Western governments and companies want to stall China's advance into the Congo basin, with its vast reserves of minerals and timber.
They say Taiwan does not want reunification until China is democratic.
Why would the U.S. government want to treat China worse than it does all these other national oil companies that have invested their billions here?
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Rumours of his rise as heir apparent have long been circulating, and it is plausible that his father would want to inform China if confirmation of this is imminent.
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They do not want to be China's puppets.
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