There is no surer sign in China of political disunity than such a persistent media campaign.
Is this a sign of progress in China, or a signal that things are not working correctly?
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Environmental issues have also received increasingly frank coverage in state media in a sign China's new leaders are attempting to address growing quality-of-life concerns by ordinary Chinese.
In a sign of China's rising pique, the Foreign Ministry recently took an unusual swipe at North Korea for spending on defense, rocket and nuclear programs instead of the economy.
That Mr Wei is a member of the local people's congress in Tianjin is a sign of how much politics still suffuses business in China, at every level.
All three nations named in the sign are involved in long-running maritime disputes with China over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
In a city that scrutinises every move by China, a six-second handshake given by Mr Hu to Mr Tsang in December was seen as a sign that he was China's choice to be confirmed in the post.
The headlines are buzzing today with news that Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) will formally close its China-based email service, in the latest sign that the company may soon withdraw from China completely.
The U.S. declined to sign on, in large part because China, Russia and other fast-growing emerging markets are not reducing emissions.
Probably the clearest sign that Goldman is in trouble in China would be if it can no longer hire or retain children of some of the more influential people here.
Foxconn, the contract manufacturer whose biggest customer is Apple, is preparing genuinely representative labour union elections in its factories in China for the first time, a powerful sign of the changes in the workshop of the world demanded by an increasingly restive workforce.
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"Tung knows that any sign of instability in Hong Kong will make China more apt to intervene, " says Cheung.
Even now, there is little sign that China, worried that upheaval in North Korea could spill over its borders, will exert enough pressure to get Mr Kim to start the disarmament he agreed to under a deal in 2005.
That is why the recent string of self-immolations in Tibetan parts of China is a sign that this could be changing.
In another positive sign for the U.S. auto industry, General Motors took the top spot in China sales in 2011, displacing Japanese automaker Toyota to take a dominating share of what the Detroit automaker called its biggest international market.
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On a related note, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke in France on Friday, pressing China to sign-off on United Nations sanctions against Iran.
Some China watchers think the disclosure disputes and audit reports are actually a positive sign that China is transforming itself into a capitalist economy in tune with Western standards.
Even so, partner Michael Li, who joined KPCB China in 2007, left this February to sign on with Tsing Capital.
Although the pace of reserve accumulation in China has increased this year, there is no sign of rising inflation.
Has there been any sign at all that China might be more willing to embrace sanctions in light of the IAEA report?
TAIPEI Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that customer Apple Inc.
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In public, at least, China's leaders would sign up to the first part of that statement.
It may be a sign that China is holding back until the U.S. presence in Pakistan is dialed down.
In one sign of the times, a small producer of vegetables called China Green Holdings Ltd. saw investors request 1, 600 times as many shares as the company had to offer before it was listed on the Hong Kong exchange.
In recent weeks, many in the US and in China have discussed whether the current IPOs of technology companies are a sign that there is a bubble forming again.
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But Mr Ma's faltering popularity has shown little sign of gaining lift from China's displays of goodwill since he took office in 2008, which included the launch of direct cross-strait flights and a free-trade agreement.
The first sign of trouble came in December 2011, when Haitong Securities, the second largest brokerage firm in China, called off its planned IPO.
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Kyoto's critics in America are unlikely to sign up to any agreement that encourages developed countries to pay over the odds to modernise factories in China, as under the current system.
But to be fair to both sides, I also question the wisdom of the idea that the current pullback in stocks is a sign that market players are concerned about the economy (or Greece, China, etc.).
If it happens, this switch to net importer will be a sign that Beijing's export-blocking strategy of "encouraging" foreign manufacturers to locate plants in China (for want of available and affordable rare earths anywhere else) is working.
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