Some smaller European luxury-goods makers that were late to the emerging-markets wave in China are now pursuing costly efforts to catch up.
Now, this same mindset is catching on in China, and as the fear of failure goes away, we may see another golden era for startups in China that outdoes the first wave from 2004-2008.
Yet, visitors to Beijing do not have to go too far off the beaten path to find dingy alleyways lined by what remains of the old courtyard homes that exist in clusters, like islands on the verge of being swallowed by the tidal wave of new China.
Amid the international outpouring for the quake's victims has been a wave of beneficence within China itself.
The first wave of children born under China's one-child policy are now entering their 20s.
If Hellstrom can't lift the sales of Sony-Ericsson handsets, he may find himself competing not with the other big five but with the next wave of competition from Korea and China.
While some in the property sector have been predicting that China's maturing economy would lead to a wave of investment in U.S. real estate akin to the Japanese property-buying spree of the late 1980s, thus far, it has only been trickling in.
As a result, I am bringing my prediction forward and believe that we are now on the verge of a wave of mergers and acquisition activity emanating from China.
The stumbling performance of all the BRICS minus China is what has led investors to home in on the next wave of emerging markets, especially the highly populated countries such as Nigeria, Turkey and Mexico.
Wang's insight struck just as China's Web portals began to catch the country's early wave of Internet eyeballs.
The Chinese government, however, intends to use the Olympics to showcase the next wave of digital mobile TV, based on standards developed in China.
This year, bankers expect a new wave of Hong Kong IPOs from multinationals looking to list their China operations, throwing out names of prospects like U.S.-based Yum Brands Inc.
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In China, the news of the graduate student's death set off a wave of sympathy on social media sites.
China has been trying to attract foreign investors in an attempt to spur a fresh wave of economic growth.
On the contrary, if China decides to continue with its traditional investment-led growth model, it may see a fresh wave of infrastructure spending and boost demand and prices of natural resources.
China has said it will give foreign investors more access to its financial markets as it tries to spur a fresh wave of economic growth.
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