To operate in China, the Council itself must provide documents from America's State Department, the Chinese Embassy in America, the cities of Washington and Shanghai, the local tax authorities and the local branch of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
Despite coming together at the last minute, being architecturally uninspired in comparison to other country pavilions, and showcasing almost entirely its own corporate sponsors (aside from the Committee of 100 exhibition on the Chinese experience in America), the USA Pavilion still draws the second highest number of daily visitors.
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The Museum of Chinese in America kicks off its Lunar New Year Family Festival on 2 February with performances by local dancers, kid-centric Mandarin workshops, hands-on arts and crafts projects and a chance to learn more about Chinese holiday customs and rituals.
And finally they ignored the elementary rule that children rarely choose their parents' drinks, which meant that the young Chinese, often educated in America, took to wine or beer, disdaining the bottle of cognac which had formed the centrepiece of their parents' dining tables.
The combination of a 24% rise in the yuan against the dollar and a 21% increase in Chinese unit labour costs, relative to America's, explains the steep appreciation shown in the chart.
Since 2000 the number of Chinese and Indians studying in America has doubled, whereas the number of Japanese has dropped by a third, to a fraction of the other Asian countries' total.
Europe may be seen as a geopolitical irrelevance but the Chinese feel more welcome there than in America, where a Chinese oil firm was prevented from buying Unocal in 2005 an event that still colours perceptions.
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Nixon should assure the Chinese that America did not seek hegemony in Asia, and no doubt the Chinese would say the same.
Danny Bowien, the thirty-year-old Korean-born chef and main owner of Mission Chinese Food, grew up in Oklahoma eating the Chinese dishes of Middle America, fried rice and lo mein.
One episode that dismayed many here was the political outcry in America caused by Chinese oil giant CNOOC's takeover bid of the American firm Unocal.
The public has grown accustomed to living in a world where Chinese and Russian leaders have the capacity to destroy much of America in an hour, because those countries appear to be run by level-headed leaders.
If the Mandarin-speaking Rudd's open attitudes to China (which, granted, come easier in a nation that sells so much to the Chinese) are instructive for America's protectionist social democrats, the new prime minister is in a position to serve not just his countrymen but globalization's cause.
Consumer purchases ranging from buying a new car to purchasing movie tickets or seats to see a favorite NBA basketball team all help illustrate both the extent to which Chinese companies have entered our lives in America, and underscore the fact that typical American consumers, may not even know which companies are made in China in the first place.
The carmaker has returned as the world's largest by volume - less than three years after it was rescued from bankruptcy by a US government cash injection - on the back of strong performance in both North and South America, as well as in Asia, including the buoyant Chinese market.
They would be the kind of innovative, hard-working go-getters countries want to attract, such as the engineers of Indian or Chinese extraction who received 14% of the patents awarded in America between 2000 and 2004, even though these ethnic groups make up less than 5% of the population.
And it has an interest in improving ties with America after the collision in April between a Chinese fighter and an American surveillance plane off the Chinese coast.
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Mr. YERGIN: Ten years ago the thought that would happen in a Chinese oil market could possibly have had an impact on what motorists in America pay at the gasoline pump would have seemed just unrealistic.
But he was met with immediate skepticism from the Chinese delegation in the audience, who questioned America's role in the Pacific.
Beijing probably will wait to see how Washington reacts to the initial Chinese bids before trying to undermine the U.S. counter drug strategy in Latin America for reasons of trade.
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Lee, a freelance curator, critic and the co-founder of dGenerate Films, the only specialty distributor of Chinese independent films in North America.
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If we really want to regain ground relative to China, if we want to stand up to the Chinese in self-preservation, invest more in America.
The atmosphere was clouded by mutual accusations over an incident in the South China Sea in which America said one of its ships was harassed by Chinese vessels.
Despite the recent lending boom, Chinese banks' mortgage lending is still very conservative compared with that in America at the peak of America's housing bubble it was easy to get a mortgage for 100% or more of the value of a home.
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But China shares one important advantage with India: the army of overseas Chinese who have made their home in America, particularly Silicon Valley.
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In the past couple of years Chinese state energy firms have struck multi-billion-dollar shale deals in America with Chesapeake Energy, mainly for shale oil, and with Devon Energy Corp for gas.
In January last year the Chinese suspended military exchanges after America said it would sell arms to Taiwan.
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This is the highest ever sales figure recorded for the first half of the year, buoyed by continued retail demand from the Indian and Chinese consumer markets and stronger than expected demand in America, De Beers said in its earnings report.
China's move to have a military and trade base in Latin America should be of concern to the United States and its allies in the region, as Chinese companies now operate in two major U.S. west coast ports: New Orleans and the Panama Canal as well as a large port in Freeport, Bahamas.
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In an apparent effort to appease America, the Chinese expelled him the following month.
Guest scores t he desire of high Chinese officials to educate their children in America as the cause eventually of the Communist nation becoming more democratic.
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