It turns out that the Chinese think that pickup trucks and SUVs are for farmers.
And food companies don't meet the disapproval in China that they do in the West: according to the Pew Research Centre, while 72% of Chinese think that fast food has made the world a better place, only 23% of Americans do.
The first is Mr Kissinger's insight that Chinese strategists think like players of wei qi or Go, which means that, in the long term, they wish to avoid encirclement.
Mr. Quelch: I think that Chinese companies will add value initially in the B-to-B (business-to-business) sector, not the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) sector.
So we believe strongly and I think the Chinese believe that an arms race either in the Middle East or an international arms race is in no way in their interests, particularly -- we certainly know that -- for what drives the Chinese economy, energy is a big part of it.
"I think most Chinese do feel that things are going pretty well in China, economically at least to date, " said Orville Schell, director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.
How do you think the Chinese government would respond to that kind of opportunity?
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Based on developments, primarily with the Chinese and the Indians, I think everybody agrees that we are in a better position -- I mean, "we, " globally -- to get some sort of agreement out of Copenhagen.
While the Chinese know that we have tremendous treasures, they also think we do a pretty good job managing them.
But they are still hugely up on the year and copper bulls think that prices will be supported by the booming Chinese and Indian economies, recovery in Germany and Japan and a growing appetite for commodities as a financial instrument.
We think we have a mature enough relationship with the Chinese that we can agree on issues that are of mutual interest, but we also have a mature enough relationship that we know that two countries on this planet are not always going to agree on everything and we'll have those disagreements.
Lu Junchang of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues, however, think that they may have done so in the case of a newly discovered flying reptile called Darwinopterus modularis.
When that happens, much of what we think we know about the Chinese economy--and China itself--could become obsolete.
So I think as we move forward on addressing our fiscal challenges, Chinese policy makers know that they can no longer count on the U.S. consumer to provide that demand to the global economy.
The second reason Chinese leaders might agree to emission caps as part of a global bargain is that they think they may be able to meet them, especially if their obligations are not onerous.
And I think there's no doubt the Chinese have come to the rescue to some extent in that they have provided a strong market.
That's pushing four million every month, so you might think the big Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE would have enough to think about at home.
We think it'll be five to 10 years before the Chinese regroup and are able to do that in the developed markets because they've had a lot of setbacks at home in the face of intense foreign competition.
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