Gold bullfighters beware you now have to fight the gold bull while fending off a golden Chinese dragon.
No, there is voraciousness to the Chinese dragon that commands attention from the policy councils of Washington to the energy fields of Kazakhstan to the garment districts of Africa.
He and, surprisingly, even senior Navy and other military officers who should know better seem to think that if only the United States were a party to LOST, international law would tame the Chinese dragon.
In the four films he made - Fists of Fury (1972), Enter the Dragon, The Chinese Connection and Return of the Dragon (all 1973) - Lee became an overnight sensation.
This year, for the first time in the U.S., Imax will release a reformatted Chinese movie, The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.
Bestselling novelist Tom Clancy's recent The Dragon and the Bear depicts a Chinese military invasion of Siberia.
After bounding through a tough Year of the Rabbit, we anticipate the Year of the Dragon will breathe fire back into Chinese markets in 2012.
With the inflation dragon now all but slain, the Chinese government has room to cut interest rates or ease other curbs to stimulate economic growth, without being concerned that it will ignite a new price spiral in the process.
While many have visited the sprawling Dragon Mart complex where low-cost Chinese goods are sold wholesale, an estimated 180, 000 Chinese people reside in the country, including senior figures for state-run banks who negotiate joint investment opportunities in Africa with Western companies.
But 10 years after the fall of Suharto, dragon dances are no longer forbidden and the Chinese New Year is an official holiday.
Just this week alone, three venture-backed Chinese tech startups I wrote about in my book Silicon Dragon e-commerce retailer Dangdang, video sharing site Tudou and an energy savings producer LatticePower are marking major milestones.
Dr. Guthrie has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous books, articles, and reports on Chinese economic reform, leadership, and corporate social responsibility, including Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China(Princeton University Press) and China and Globalization: The Economic, Political, and Social Transformation of China.
The Golden Dragon Museum opened in Bendigo in 1991 and has crafted classical Chinese gardens, the Guan Yin Temple and a Chinese tea room.
The gurus also made a big buy into the Templeton Dragon Fund, a closed-end fund that invests primarily in the equities of Chinese companies.
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