Ms. OLIKER: Well I think what's going to happen now is, sort of bilateral talks, in that the other members are going to try to push the Russians and the Chinese to some sort of statement.

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Douban is sort of a Chinese MySpace, popular with special interest groups and communities, and for networking around specific topics and has over 100 million users.

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This sort of prescience from a Chinese company has so far been vary rare, but I do see it slowly increasing.

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They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.

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But this place truly is the sort of spot where the island's many identities - Malay, Chinese, Indian, British colonial, modern tourist - thread together into a beautiful knot.

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Even in the sort of murky postcommunism that grips much of the country today, many Chinese still see skiing as an elite sport in the same category as horseback riding, golf and tennis.

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Getting a discount is also a sort of insurance policy against ending up with badly made or fake goods from Chinese shops.

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He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife.

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