Despite selling an awful lot of more cars, the company could barely manage to breakeven in Asia-Pacific, which includes the Chinese region.
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When cooking for guests, Lee doesn't represent any particular Chinese region, shuns the use of monosodium glutamate and keeps deep fried dishes to a minimum.
Cambodia relies more than most in the region on Chinese investment and other blandishments.
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Asia's tourism officials are licking their chops at the expected boom in Chinese travelers throughout the region.
For China, the deployment in the Gulf of Aden is as much about flying the flag and showing solidarity with a multinational effort as it is about making a real difference to the security of Chinese shipping in the region.
Nowadays, studies show that an important number of young Americans wish to study in the Asia-Pacific region and to learn Chinese, Korean and Japanese so as to be prepared to run businesses in this promising region.
Essex, a region with few Chinese residents, has established a strong link with Jiangsu Province.
Meanwhile, Chinese investments elsewhere in the region continue to grow.
In Asia, stocks across the region climbed after Chinese data showed the economy expanded 7.9% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, fueling optimism that the worst may be over for the world's No. 2 economy.
As wealthy Chinese and Russian tourists flock to the region, hotels are clamoring to offer the standard of service these guests have come to expect, in a language they understand.
As a result, the face of butler service in the region is often, unexpectedly, Chinese.
The New York Times reports that American and Asian officials believe Chinese fishing boat incidents are increasing throughout the region.
Shantou may be feeling Asia's crisis more than other Chinese cities, but the rest of the region would be happy for such modest problems.
But despite their ties to the island state, trade between them and China has surged and some governments in the region are also hoping to tap large Chinese investments in the coming years.
Meanwhile, Chinese leaders have noted lumbering attempts by India, the region's other rising power, to rescue its citizens trapped in Libya.
Were it not for the buoyant Chinese economy, the outlook for many countries in the region would be even less encouraging.
Apart from the signs, the region's larger cities look and feel thoroughly Chinese.
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It was the fourth major purchase by a Chinese company of a wine property in the famed Bordeaux grape region since 2008.
And, again, if you look at the public statements of the Chinese, they have welcomes the United States presence in the region.
The region is seen as far and away the friendliest to Chinese FDI.
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Chinese washing machine manufacturer Heier sent a technician to a remote agricultural region in China where they had been receiving numerous breakdowns.
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For equity investors, the growing Chinese economy has been the main draw, helping spur rallies throughout the region this year.
When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates visits the region, Knook can bask along with Bill as thousands of Chinese (or Indians or Japanese) turn up to shower adulation and respect on a computer industry legend.
"But I think as a symbol, the feedback that we receive in our dialogue throughout the region is that the regional partners regard this step by the Chinese in the midst of what has otherwise been a remarkable growth in their military capability as significant, " he said.
But they also expect that the United States would engage, as another part of its multidimensional responsibilities in the region, to engage in a productive and constructive relationship with the Chinese.
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Yin Gang, a Middle East analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says China's overarching objective in the region is to maintain friendly ties with its four main groups: Arabs, Turks, Persians and Jews.
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China's figures for the first half of this year show that 40% of tourist visas were granted to independent travelers--indicating tacit approval from above as Chinese tourists continue to open their wallets--and minds--around the region.
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