Its 400-year-old synagogue is decorated with blue-and-white willow pattern tiles from 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.
Now, worryingly, something similar may threaten Haier, China's leading white-goods maker, which recently failed with a bid for Maytag, an American rival.
Despite this, Bush administration officials, known more as dogged salesmen of ideological policies than as pragmatists, have been nuanced in their relationship with the Red Kingdom, resisting the no-doubt-powerful political urge to demonise China as the White House struggles with other woes.
Unlike the manufacturing industry in the West that gave birth to a middle class of both white-collar and blue-collar workers, manufacturers in China mostly absorb surplus labor from rural areas with few skills.
Guangdong Kelon, China's largest private white-goods maker, was the first private company to list in Hong Kong, with a share issue in 1996.
Unfortunately, it would appear that its interest in currying favor with China and its money-men like White House coffee-clatcher Wang Jun did, as well.
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After White House stonewalling on two other China-related investigations (the fund raising and the technology transfers), Republicans will assume the worst about the Lee case.
The first sign of a U.S.-China thaw was when the White House took a neutral stance on China's bid to host the Games.
Unhappy about the White House trade deal to admit China to the WTO--an agreement that labor is now better armed to fight in Congress--the unions had pressed Clinton to push their case on labor rules in Seattle.
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Company name refers to high-quality white porcelain that was exported from China to the West in the 18th century.
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O'HARA: Blumenthal says the administration devoted considerable attention to this report because the White House and Congress currently are very focused on US-China relations.
He said the G20 summit had not seen any "substantial" deals but had seen some important "positive symbolic things" - such as Brazil, China and India joining "rich, white countries" around the table.
In China, green tea is the most ubiquitous class of tea, while white, yellow, pu-erh and oolong teas are cherished delicacies.
More important for China, its support for Israel would enhance its ability to challenge the UN-besotted Obama White House in the great power game.
"With demand for steel and other metals from China likely to remain strong for the foreseeable future, even if it does cool from recent white-hot levels, we think RT offers excellent value, even as we concede that the stock price has already had a great run, " he says.
The White House would not say if the attack originated in China, describing it as a "spear-phishing" attempt.
If the situation does not allow for glib, black-and-white analyses, however, there is little disagreement -- even from Beijing itself -- that China is not only responsible for significant levels of pollution, but also suffers very significantly from the effects of that pollution.
The White House has said that it has taken its concerns about cyber-theft to the highest levels of China's government.
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