There are six American companies dedicated to producing five-axis machine tools, and at least 20 in China.
They believe it is not that important, at least not in China.
Specifically, they continue to debar Chinese citizens from pursuing claims against Japan for compensation in respect of wartime atrocities that are believed to have claimed at least 10m victims in China.
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There's a downside to all this building in China, at least in the short term.
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The bird flu outbreak coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak that killed at least 349 people in China.
Toyota and Nissan announced this week that they are temporarily shutting at least five plants in China, as local buyers shun Japanese cars in protest at the nationalisation of the Senkakus.
Earlier this year, Cadillac executives were saying they intended to at least triple sales in China from 30, 000 in 2011 to 100, 000 by 2016, but the brand already has faltered somewhat.
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Both foreign traders and local producers have in recent months observed a spectacular rise in the popularity of wine in China, at least in the country's more prosperous and cosmopolitan cities and coastal regions.
Its launch comes at a time when, in at least one respect, China is scaling back.
The incident followed at least three other attacks in China in recent weeks in which assailants have killed or wounded students.
The default ratio in China is at least double that commonly found among graduates in other developing countries, the report indicated.
Our goal was, if we are going to do it, to be at least No. 1 in China and seek a world ranking.
As a result of their appeal, Pizza Hut outlets in China are at least twice as profitable as their counterparts in the United States.
The report says that at least one Microsoft executive in China gave instructions to offer unspecified kickbacks to Chinese government officials in exchange for green-lighting Microsoft contracts.
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Diplomats and policy-makers tend to concern themselves narrowly with the immediate task at hand expediting the release of the 24 Americans now held hostage and their EP-3 that was, at least until its arrival in China, chock-a-block with sensitive intelligence-collection gear.
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Diplomats and policy-makers tend to concern themselves narrowly with the immediate task at hand expediting the release of the 24 Americans now held hostage and their EP-3 that was, at least until its arrival in China, chock-a-block with sensitive intelligence-collection gear.
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As confirmed by some of our own staff, all of Google's services stopped working in China for at least the better part of a day despite the search firm verifying that everything was in good working order.
BEIJING A massive blast ripped through an explosives factory Monday in eastern China, killing at least 12 people and leaving others buried in the debris, state media reported.
But Microsoft reckons that business piracy accounts for at least half of its losses in China.
There is at least one another respect in which China is not a typical rising power: it considers itself a returning power.
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As well as moving upmarket, Philips, like Siemens, is also making ever more of its products, or at least parts of them, in China.
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Certainly it would be an exciting new chapter in the smartphone wars, but at least one report suggests stepped up competition in the China market not going to unfold just yet.
The data on what China invests in are sketchy but two things at least are clear: China has a stated desire to diversify away from dollar assets and the euro zone is the natural alternative.
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In public, at least, China's leaders would sign up to the first part of that statement.
Facebook will not be allowed in China probably at least for another 5-10 years if its still around.
Groupon has leveraged the popularity of group buying, an activity which has long been popular in China since at least 2004.
Although the corn market most closely tracks news and weather in the US, any weather related crop disasters in China would at least lend support to corn prices.
Elsewhere graft may be a fairly efficient way to do business: investors who pay bribes in China may at least be confident of what they will get in return.
Kearney, a management consultancy, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, more than a fifth had pulled out of at least one money-losing venture in China.
In a few years' time, this could mean that in urban China at least, the party's grassroots activities will be confined mainly to government departments and institutions, in which party membership remains a prerequisite for advancement.
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