Whereas in China restrictive, business and productivity-inhibiting regulations would likely be ignored and un-enforced in Japan they are more likely to respected and faithfully implemented, regardless of costs or, indeed, customer satisfaction.
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He also thinks that consumers in the US are already sated by their existing technologies, like HDTV, whereas a consumer in China may just skip ahead to 3-D.
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The carmaker sold close to 30, 000 Cadillac cars in China in 2012, whereas both BMW and Audi sell more than 300, 000 vehicles there.
Whereas most such firms in China hand over little of their profit to the state, causing widespread resentment, officials claim that Chongqing's state businesses have been supporting projects for the less well off.
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Hundreds of thousands of Indians work in IT services whereas manufacturing for export provides China with tens of millions of jobs.
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He added that Mr. Romney's energy policy, which calls for greater U.S. oil and gas production and scaling back subsidies, would cede the emerging clean-energy business to China, whereas Mr. Obama was investing in an important growth industry.
More than two-thirds of the European and American firms surveyed recently by Control Risks felt that Russia was becoming riskier for business whereas most respondents saw risk to be static or dimishing in India, China and Brazil.
One campaigner, Li Dan, points out that, whereas leaders in many countries have given high priority to the issue, China has so far been behaving more like South Africa, whose leaders downplayed the problem for years and are now struggling to cope with one of the highest infection rates in the world.
In China, diamonds conjure up a sense of eternity, whereas for Indians they are associated with conspicuous wealth.
Further, Europe is especially important to the platinum market since diesel-powered vehicles are popular on the continent and this requires the use of platinum, whereas gasoline-powered cars more common in the U.S. and China can use less-expensive palladium.
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Japan's exports also moved swiftly up the value chain, but whereas this was not enough to support durable gains in its market share, China has the advantage of capital controls that will prevent its exchange rate rising as abruptly as Japan's did in the 1980s.
"Experts here still say that China falls behind on the number of drivers it could have whereas there are on average 140 drivers for 1, 000 people in the world, China only has about 50 for every 1, 000, " said Zhang.
In the year to January, Japanese exports to China rose by a third, whereas its exports to the United States shrank by 5.5%.
Initially, China is likely to specialise mainly in relatively low-skilled labour-intensive manufacturing, whereas developed economies will concentrate on activities needing higher skills.
Whereas there are some governments in the world which dare not allow their people to use Internet and mobile phones, China now has the largest mobile phone population and Internet population in the world.
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