Ideally, the management team should be a combination of experienced Chinese and Western managers.
Still, many Chinese and Western economists and demographers say that urbanization can be a double-edged sword.
The Mansour Hotel houses the Chinese embassy and several western organizations.
Meanwhile, the error all along, to which both Chinese policy makers and Western commentators seem to have fallen victim, has been to confuse a high degree of usefulness with indispensability.
Because of my experience on Wall Street and China, and the team of experienced Chinese professionals that we have assembled, we act as a lightning rod for Western and Chinese companies alike.
"We have a very strong base of Chinese collectors and some loyal Western buyers, " she told CNN in an emailed response to questions.
Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
Both the Western and Chinese economies need to rebalance, and this process has already begun.
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And Whirlpool's washing-machine factory now makes appliances under contract for Kelon, which sells them under its own brand, a reversal of the usual hierarchy between western and Chinese firms.
Do not be deceived: simmering in a strange brew of Chinese, Malay, Indian, Arabic and Western cultures, this shiny city is charged with 24-hour energy and multicultural diversity.
Chinese trade and investment are increasingly important for western Canada.
In the absence of massive new finds of oil, technological or other impetuses for reduced U.S. and Western demand, the Chinese competition will not only further increase the cost of a barrel of oil.
He and his friends poured over Western books, enjoyed Western classical music and even began to opt for Western-style toilets over Chinese ones.
The question is whether or not Chinese banks will follow the Western model completely and whether they will embrace investment banking.
The Saks Fifth Avenue store has always welcomed many European visitors, and while traffic from western and central European clients has slowed, Russian, Brazilian and Chinese tourists are picking up at least some of the slack.
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This will favour big Western firms and low-cost Chinese ones, especially those with friendly support from China's state-controlled lenders.
Western aid agencies, Chinese mining companies and U.N. peacekeepers have done their bit, but the continent's main saviors are its own people.
This is a neat reversal of how most Western products are adapted for Chinese tastes and may be a harbinger of future marketing trends.
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That includes the equipment manufactured and sold by every Western vendor in the United States, much of which is made by Chinese joint venture partners and suppliers.
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Others detect the start of a trend whereby Chinese car manufacturers will assert greater authority over their Western and Japanese partners.
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Its posh spa offers treatments from massage and facials to fun with hot stones and mud packs, and its four restaurants cater to Chinese, Japanese or Western tastes.
Shanghai students comfortably pipped the South Koreans, Singaporeans and Hong Kong Chinese, with only eccentric Finns bucking the Western-slacker trend.
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Many of these young Chinese started returning home in the 1920s and 1930s, imbued with Western ideas about modern design.
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And China's internet start-ups, such as Tencent (a social-networking service) and Alibaba (an e-commerce company), have had a genius for copying Western business models and adapting them to the Chinese market.
Such are the trials and tribulations of a Chinese company trying to make it in the western hinterlands.
And while many Western schools boast of their links with Chinese universities, "they happen at such different levels, " Mr. Symonds notes.
Recently, I was on BBC World News to discuss the eurozone debt crisis and how the Chinese middle class can help re-balance the Western economies.
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But the formula has begun to show its age, and Chinese Lunar Festival levels start to look an awful lot like Western levels, start to look like St.
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And like Western firms' cross-border investments into Chinese banks, Goldman's ICBC stake never fulfilled its promise as a potential gateway to a much bigger slice of the investment-banking market.
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