Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.
Unlike consumers in the West, Chinese consumers have no role model from older generations.
Within six months he hatched a business plan to bring Chinese medicines to the West and sent it to Hutchison executives.
Its huge foreign-exchange holdings and its sniffing of bargains mean Chinese investment in the West will grow rapidly in the coming years.
To further build on booming U.S.-Chinese economic ties, East West has opened an office in Beijing.
In the early 1990s Chinese investors poured money into California property, and East West benefited in part by helping non-Chinese customers willing to sell to Asian buyers.
Even though the Fifth Generation was one of the first groups of Chinese directors discovered by the West, it was far from the first to make impressive contributions.
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One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.
Despite the fact that for the best part of two centuries China came to suffer hugely at the hands of the West, and to lag badly behind the West, the Chinese never stopped believing in themselves.
That American import thrived in Shanghai in the 1920s and '30s, brought there by a Chinese gangster with connections to the West.
"When Chinese see programs made in the West, there is nothing they can relate to in their lives, " says Xiao Jian, a 37-year-old director of TV dramas and music videos.
"It's part of this overall story that the Chinese want to know what the West thinks of them, " said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer with the computer-security company Mandiant Corp.
It will be largely funded by the Chinese and their diaspora, less focused on the West and more on developing countries, including increasingly those outside the traditional stomping grounds of Chinese entrepreneurs.
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"As Chinese become more open to the West, the physical and cultural borders will no doubt break down and create a strong potential for the appreciation of Western art, " Mr. Ching said, adding that Sotheby's wants to help shape and be part of that growth.
Just three years ago, most Chinese startups were unheard of in the West, aside from search engine Baidu and online trading marketplace Alibaba, which were among the earlier wave of Internet startups to make a splash with successful public trading debuts.
In my book The Chinese Dream, I urge people in the West to see the differences between China and the West as complementary rather than contradictory.
The rise of medieval society and the Renaissance was, in large part, a process of reglobalization, as the West increased its contacts with the Chinese and Islamic worlds.
Until now, contemporary Chinese film making has been identified in the West with historical peasant dramas of great visual beauty which allude only allegorically to modern-day politics or society.
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On the west side of the Yalu is the Chinese city of Dandong.
By contrast to the military sector, the West enjoys vastly greater leverage with the Chinese in terms of joint commercial interests.
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Hey, they use a different language with characters and it is tough going for Chinese to hit those keys like we do in the West.
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Despite absorbing influences from the West, Abe and B6 say their work incorporates Chinese elements.
Tomato in Chinese is Xi Hong Shi, "Xi" means west, "Hong" means red and "Shi" sounds like city.
Chinese Web video sites evolved quite differently from sites in the West.
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Many of the units at One57, a new 1, 004-foot tower under construction on West 57th Street, have gone to Russian and Chinese buyers, brokers said.
Since the disaster, Chinese migrants are thought to have moved away from north-west England: there were none among the cocklers who returned to the sands near Hest Bank on February 10th.
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