If China wants to influence the world, it needs to think hard about the values it promotes at home.
If China wants to continue selling its firms and attracting foreign capital to build successful multinationals, it will have to practise good corporate governance, not just pay lip service to it.
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If China's workers are to realize their dreams, and if China is to become what it wants and needs to become, the country needs to make drastic changes to its education system, and make them soon.
As America prints more and more money to prevent deflation, China must (if it wants to sustain the dollar-renminbi parity) print equal money -- risking inflation.
And just as Europe needs to make structural changes to engineer a recovery, China must fundamentally transform its economy if it wants to increase consumption.
"If your firm wants to open a plant in China, it helps if you know how to get through the bureaucracy there, " she says.
But President John Kufour of Ghana told reporters China is very competitive if Africa wants to buy something, coming to the continent not as a colonial power but as a guest.
Furthermore, if China is to transition to a more service-oriented economy, as it wants to do, it will have to have better-trained workers for that.
Responsible for creating the current glut in the sector through its generous lending to solar manufacturers, China should start absorbing more of solar supply if it wants its solar manufacturing sector to thrive, and right now, simply survive with slim margins.
If a foreign company wants to have a chance in China, its managers must have the same cost perspectives as its customers and competitors.
But if Brazil wants to move beyond being simply a commodity provider, or if China's growth slows and it demands fewer Brazilian resources, then what?
However, with rival carriers rapidly increasing their presence in 3G, China Mobile needs to start building better relationships with handset and chipset makers if it wants to avoid ceding any more 3G market share.
So I don't think that we can have a lot of confidence if seven weeks before an election, he suddenly says he wants to get tough on China, when his entire history has been feeling pretty comfortable with seeing jobs shipped to China.
China has signaled that it will help to bail out the EU economies, if only because it wants to have the euro as alternative to the US dollar.
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Also, China, which accounts for about half the Brics gross domestic product, wants to have higher voting rights if it contributes more to the fund than its partners, the officials said.
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