Whether North Korea can manage a successful transition depends not only on events inside the country, but also on China, without whose help the North would quickly collapse.
Many business people might argue that California is overlawyered, but there are parts of China without any lawyers at all.
But even without those machines from outside China, the country itself has already been pumping out its very own gaming devices, including the shameless iReadyGo (pictured above), the Lenovo-backed Eedoo and various Wii clones.
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Whether any of this is useful to China is questionable, but without a doubt the recent events could carry a high cost.
It may be a blatant copyright violation, but then again, would we have ever seen a World of Warcraft theme park without countries like China willing to not simply bend the rules, but shred them into oblivion?
But China is staging a comeback, albeit one without a lot of bells and whistles.
But without the ability to compete on interest rates, says Mr Sheng, China will anyway find it hard to attract foreign investment in banking.
But it is illegal for foreign companies to operate a VPN in China without a local partner, according to lawyers and state-run media, and several VPN services say their access has been blocked increasingly in recent months.
Gazprom is no longer interested or capable of doing this deal, but the Russian government has always been in control since nobody is exporting gas to China without its approval.
This arrangement can continue indefinitely, but without Kashagan, Kazakhstan cannot supply the planned 1.2 million barrels for the line to China, let alone fully diversify its exports.
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Huang Haibo, an executive at China Mobile, stressed the two companies have so far only made preliminary contact, without anything set in stone, yet, but noted they hope to bring the iPhone to China.
But without an agreement, investors will continue to wonder whether they can trust the financial statements that come out of China.
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China's reluctance to delve into domestic affairs has raised concern internationally, but the trade-without-conditions approach has been hailed by many African leaders who are tired of being dictated to by their Western peers.
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