The impact of those economic ties are evident in the Chinese border town of Yanji.
Even the road to the Chinese border was left as an unpaved dirt track.
In 1945, a convoy of U.S. trucks from India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border, opening the Burma Road.
Another helicopter crashed near the Chinese border two weeks ago, killing six people.
And so, on his way up to the Chinese border, he decided to make a short detour and visit the village.
Her destination was Erlian, a Chinese border city, whose main road is decorated with green statues of dinosaurs in honor of dinosaur bones found nearby.
Between the Black Sea and the Chinese border, more than 70m people live in eight countries that did not exist in that form a decade ago.
By 2020, when it will be producing 450, 000 tonnes of copper a year, which will be sold across the nearby Chinese border, it is expected to account for a staggering one-third of Mongolia's GDP.
This time Mr Thant's travels take him to Myanmar's hill country, near the Chinese border, to the other side of the frontier, in Yunnan province, and to Assam and Manipur in north-east India, on Myanmar's other flank.
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In the framework of the 6th edition of the Escale the town of Lacanau (Gironde), visitors are invited to follow the Silk Road as far as the Chinese border in the footsteps of the great travellers of the past.
After nearly 30 years in the business, Mumiy Troll is taking a fresh shot at finding a crossover audience with the release this week of its first English-language album, "Vladivostok, " named for its hometown, a far-eastern port city about 6, 000 miles from Moscow and 40 miles from the Chinese border.
Pieces of the failed launch were recovered some 40 miles north of the Chinese-Siberian border in a wooded area.
"This time, their slogan is 'Turn grief to strength' and they're paying much more attention to business and the economy, " said a veteran official at one of the biggest Chinese cross-border trade companies.
Together with trade, the other traditional Chinese interest along their border has been stability.
The Chinese-speaking Vladislavovich says he often gets together on the border for informal parties with Chinese counterparts who repeatedly assure him of their peaceful intentions.
One Chinese newspaper said there had been 20, 000 job losses in Dandong, a border town through which Chinese tourists usually pass on their way to North Korea by train.
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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.
To reach Kat O, up near the border of the Chinese mainland, you need to take a taxi to the pier at Wong Shek, about an hour's journey from Hong Kong.
Their model is Shenzhen, the grandfather of Chinese boom towns, on the border with Hong Kong.
And some printed and digitized culture is spread regionally through cross-border communities such as overseas Chinese, Indians and Filipinos.
Across the border, however, fewer Chinese regard India as an issue of immediate importance, and debate on the relationship is far more circumscribed.
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With the exception of several well publicized natural resource deals, cross border mergers and acquisitions involving Chinese companies is still at an early stage.
The latest cross-border deal comes as more Chinese developers look beyond the mainland to diversify and tap into the rising demand of Chinese migrants and investors.
He lives near the border so he can get on the Chinese network.
Next would come greater cross-border commercial lending, including loans in Chinese currency.
The JSJ website is developed by the Division of Supervision and Management of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Chinese Ministry of Education to release information related to cross-border higher education in China.
The Global Times reports in its Chinese edition that China and India will hold their latest round of border talks in Delhi next Tuesday.
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Labor does not flow as easily across international borders as does capital and IP, but even so, we are seeing a change in cross-border labor practices, with the shift again coming from Chinese companies.
Even the stall owners are Chinese, and the market starts winding down at 3pm, because the border closes at 4pm.
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