What this decade is all about is the U.S. becoming more and more like China, and China becoming more like the U.S. This is why I am so bullish on the global growth.
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After dealing with nimrods and numbnuts all day on sundry China matters, I like to unwind.
Before I left the Philippines to visit China in 1971, I was a student activist, just like those hunger strikers on the square, angry about social injustice and yearning for an ideal world.
Not, I would emphasize, anything like the scale that China is proposing.
The linkage is blurred, but I suspect that a titan like No. 34 China Mobile, the mainland's top wireless provider, now with 600 million customers, is also going to feel reverberations from Japan.
Now I'd like to come back for a quick moment, if I can, to that issue about China and the talks because that's that's one of the most critical issues here, North Korea.
Now, I've traveled a lot over the last year, all over the world, and I've got to tell you, countries like China -- they're competing to win.
Are we going to build these -- like I said, are we going to build solar panels in China?
"When I first looked at the company, I didn't like it, " admits analyst Jack Tsui of China Everbright Capital, the lead underwriter of the company.
But there are a lot of trends in China advertising, like online advertising, television advertising, and I am not as confident that they will continue to enjoy the pricing power they do now.
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It was easy, sitting at that worn counter, listening to the comforting sound of ringing phones and clinking china on a rainy weekday afternoon, like the last time I was there, to even imagine that it felt permanent.
Growing up in the Cold War era I never imagined Forbes (the Capitalist Tool) would be in markets like Russia or China.
Yet I rarely listen to or read the opinions of people like me who are bullish on China's economy, like World Bank officials or Jim Rogers.
As I read the above and thought about the large gap in trust and understanding that exists between the United States and China, I thought how good it would be if more Americans thought like SEAL Team Six.
But the data will likely provide an impetus for China hard landing theorists to pump up their chest and start pounding it like an I-told-you-to-listen-to-me silverback gorilla in the mist.
Even for luxury goods, celebrating individualism with familiar Western notions like "what I want" and "how I feel" doesn't work in China.
The U.S. is broke just like you are, and the banks that I have to borrow from are thousands of miles away in China.
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And I'd like to say that 60 percent of the exports were mainly earned by international conglomerates operating in China, including American business leaders here in China.
If President Nixon, a right-wing republican can go to Communist China, then why can't the next presidency say: 'I don't like Iran but we are going to have normal diplomatic and trading relations with them'.
Sheri McCoy: When I first came in, I spent a lot of time going out to our largest and most important markets like Brazil, Mexico and China, meeting with the management teams and, importantly, with representatives.
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And I think it is imperative for American foreign policy looking forward to engage both energy suppliers and rising energy consumers like China in a way that is going to reduce the incentives for these countries to play this game.
So what we have to do is to build a strong consensus around a long-term recovery plan for Haiti that is not just shouldered by the United States but the entire international community. (Applause.) I'm going to be working with countries like France and Brazil and Canada, the European Union, Japan, China.
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