It is also a source of pride and pleasure for the Chinese people and embodies important aspects of the country s intellectual and artistic heritage.
The process has improved somewhat for the Chinese, but outside the embassy in Beijing people still stand in line for three hours just to apply for a simple tourist visa.
Far too many news organizations in the West perpetuate outdated or simply wrong views of the Chinese government and its people for the sake of getting eyeballs or, perhaps, to try to help contain the country.
Mr Locke said it was clear China's leaders were unnerved by calls on the internet last year for Chinese people to stage their own Arab-style "jasmine revolution", despite the fact that few people heeded the calls.
Even before news that Chinese students were among the casualties, Chinese people had mostly expressed sympathy for Boston and those injured in the attack, with many applauding the response by city authorities, regular citizens and the media.
Jesse Helms, R-North Carolina, the ranking Republican on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, called the decision "an endorsement of the government's repression of the Chinese people" and had harsh words for the International Olympic Committee.
So while China's size will be a huge opportunity for Chinese people and the rest of the world as they consume more, it might not mean China and its customs will be copied all over the world, as has been the case for America over the past 50 years since it became so important.
The Sina Weibo sensation, for example, has fused in the minds of ordinary Chinese people the inequities of state crony quasi-capitalism, the deaths of babies drinking tainted milk and people dying in a bullet train derailment.
The Chinese people have suffered for 200 years from corrupt, weak and incompetent leaders as well as from foreign imperialism.
Making the environment even tougher, Chinese companies with global ambitions increasingly are looking for the same kind of people as those sought by major Western companies trying to expand in China.
The relationship is a perfect fit for the desires of the U.S., but is it a relationship the Chinese people are willing to have?
So why are Chinese people looking for exit as the country is getting richer?
The bond-market investigation, led by China's central bank and top securities regulator, focuses on a kind of transaction that could magnify trading risks for Chinese banks and brokerage firms, the people said.
"Their narrative says that the Chinese people have suffered persecution for the past century, and it's only now that China has become a global player capable of holding this great event, " Li says.
But his official biography transposes his birth to the slopes of Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people.
We asked destiny consultant Master Raymond Lo, an expert in reading the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes, " which of the top sports people bound for Beijing would be successful at the Olympics.
Third, to the Chinese people, American universities, for all their shortcomings and blemishes, are still beacons of freedom, individualism and self-improvement.
The Chinese people increasingly have little patience for official obfuscation and corruption.
"People tend to think Google quit China, but China didn't quit Google, " said Duncan Clark, chairman of consulting firm BDA China Ltd, referring to Google's advertising services for Chinese companies who want reach people around the globe.
The shrine is notorious for the fact that among the 2.5m people it commemorates are war criminals who visited terrible atrocities on millions of Chinese citizens in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Politically, we may be at odds with the Chinese regime, but its people desperately long for a taste of American autonomy.
For now, the path to Yes honors the rights of all Chinese people and celebrates the glories of China the nation.
Ask the Chinese, Brazilians, these sorts of people, for a little loan to tide the continent over.
Mr. Trade: What if I give the money to poor Chinese people, is it wrong for me to decide that I wish to spend my money which I have freely and fairly earned and benefit poor people in China?
"We're very confident the Chinese people will again give us their help and support for this decisive match, " Barcellos added.
Last year a tea made from the Chinese kombucha mushroom that was promoted as a remedy for cancer caused four people to be hospitalized for conditions ranging from jaundice to headaches and nausea.
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