The price of leather is what it is whether one is in China or the US, and the same is true most other costs.
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After all, to take just one eminently foreseeable example, the US will not go to war with China or even seriously threaten China - which owns the US debt - to compel Beijing to lower its CO2 emissions.
On the other hand, China is implacably opposed to the US or Nato intervening in what it calls the internal affairs of other countries.
In international news, a bilingual Global Times editorial says North Korea will not attack South Korea or the US, but stresses that neither China nor the international community can stop North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
Accenture spokesperson Charlie Hartley says this gap in purchasing intent and spend between the emerging countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China, or the countries) and developed ones (US, Japan, France and Germany) was generally found to be the case across all new categories of electronics, including smartphones and tablets.
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How this immediately helps Google or the US depends how China reacts in the coming days but it is reportedly fuming that Google is effectively acting as a serious diplomatic lever at the moment.
But the more interesting finding is who will lead the 3-D TV charge not the US or Japan, but consumers in the emerging markets of China, in particular, as well as Brazil, Russia and India.
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Thanks to, among other things, the activities of the foreign trade lobby (which in the last year has worked harder than ever to persuade us that China was on the brink of collapse or at least was losing its mojo), China hardly figured in the 2012 presidential campaign.
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If a manufacturer moves from the US to China, his or her labor costs drop dramatically, which means that prices can be low while allowing for greater profits.
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"I'm convinced that China or Asia or other parts of the world will pass us by unless we get serious about strengthening the ability to compete, " Romney told the convention delegates.
But some manufacturing company executives also argued that European industry was holding its own against both the old-world competition from the US and Japan and newer rivals from China or India.
That wages are lower in China that in the US, working hours longer this may shock or even affront some of said activists.
Pointedly, for each and every one of us who would lead or manage anything in China, we need the respect of the people who drive execution: Chinese people.
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Much like how three (or four) of the major US carriers will be getting the HTC One, China's three carriers will also be receiving the same treatment, according to the country's official device approval database.
"This Comment Group has been targeting a lot of companies that were in the process of being acquired or that a US company was trying to acquire in China, " he said.
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In other international news, Xinhua and China Daily highlight calls by Chinese and US officials and experts for more cyber-security co-operation and less "blame or accusations without evidence" of state-sponsored hacker attacks, during the US-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing.
Trade with China represents 3.5% of the British trade total, or a quarter of the business we do with the US and a third of the business we do with Germany.
China is the No. 2 corn producer behind the US. It produced around 6.2 billion bushels, or 158 million metric tons of corn in 2010, compared to world leading US production of 12 billion bushels, or 331 million metric tons in 2010, according to the US Grains Council, an industry lobby.
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