Mr Kenny noted the links being forged with China and how both parts of the island have the same objective in facing the global challenges and delivering robust growth.
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Daimler gets well over a third of its sales from emerging markets, with China being a major contributor.
Annual iron ore contracts are currently being negotiated with suppliers, and China is the world's biggest steel consumer.
One measure being hotly debated involves trade with China.
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Another telling sign of the attention being paid to China comes with the results of this year's Business Plan Contest for MBA students at the prestigious Harvard Business School in the United States.
The bulk of sales are to the Korean market, with China and Japanalso being significant.
The first is being made for China Mobile, with others to follow soon, says Kai Oistamo of Nokia.
And it is not just relations with China that are being changed.
Combined with what is being sent to China and Iran, this resumption in supplies will only raise export levels to roughly half of what Turkmenistan is capable of exporting.
"What we hoped to accomplish with Google China is now being realized by Weibo, " proving that "engagement is the right approach, " said former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee, who left the company in 2009.
The amusement comes not from it being to do with Apple, but rather that someone in China, against all too much of prevailing local practice, seems to think that the law should in fact protect intellectual property.
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And it's Asia, sleepy for so long outside of Japan, where most of the progress is being made in those areas, with Vietnam and the Philippines joining China as converts to the notion that increased efficiency through technology is key to boosting wealth and jobs.
It is being backed by major, mainly Western firms, many with interests in China.
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Now, if China says, we want to consult with you about being part of this as well, we welcome that.
Mr. Reeves's "Man of Tai Chi" is being funded by Australia-based Village Roadshow along with the state-backed China Film Group and Wanda Group, China's largest movie-theater operator.
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South Africa is considered the corporate leader of the continent, and now basks in being included in the renamed BRICS, with Brazil, Russia, India and China as leaders of the emerging markets.
Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.
China is building its own aircraft industry, with the initial target being a 150 passenger plane.
As of this date, the Thomson Reuters database lists 323 companies with shares that trade in U.S. markets as being identified as domiciled in China, or which 96 (just under 30%) trade via ADRs.
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Since then, KPCB China has staffed up with a few new partners, the most recent one being Victor Leung, who came on board in January 2011 from HSBC Private Equity Asia.
Numbers play an important role in China, with eight - which sounds like the word "prosperity" - being considered particularly auspicious, the BBC's Viv Marsh says.
The impact of the capital support being provided by China is having a visible impact on the economies of dozens of countries, starting with those in Africa.
India and China have agreed to set aside their border dispute for the time being and to get on with normalising economic and cultural ties.
Initially, doctors at the hospital who worked with the physicians identified them as being from South Korea, while police identified the dead as being from China.
Being Chinese companies that understand implicitly the need to be on good terms with the media and the government in China, both Chow Tai Seng and JAC apologized immediately to consumers and promised remedies.
Gary Locke, the new U.S. ambassador to China, spoke about dollar safety with the press on Friday for the first time since being chosen by President Barack Obama to be the first Chinese-American to represent Washington in Beijing.
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After being served with a grand jury subpoena to appear in New Jersey, Wei left Miami for New York en route to China.
According to the Inter-American Development Bank, China's trade barriers are generally in line with those of other developing countries and are gradually being lowered.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's visit to China in April, his third since being elected in 1999, further solidified relations between the two countries with agreements signed in the areas of political cooperation, telecommunications, bilateral trade and two-way investment.
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