In keeping with the historic theme, blog commenter "Pamela Ann Smith" said that Turkey's exquisite Iznik pottery, which has blue floral motifs, owes much to the development of rare blue ceramic dyes in China.

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When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.

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Its 400-year-old synagogue is decorated with blue-and-white willow pattern tiles from China.

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If The Gap is going to sell a million blue polo shirts year in and year out, Mexico or China is the place to make them.

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"Sentiment is severely battered by a string of negative news, especially the earnings warnings from some blue chip companies like ZTE, " said Zhang Gang, analyst at Central China Securities.

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The charges ding Big Blue's reputation at a time when the company is looking to countries like China, India and Brazil to fuel much of its growth.

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More and more younger workers are no longer willing to work for low wages in blue collar positions, and the high costs of real estate are pricing low-cost manufacturing out of China.

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