What do the Chinese do with all that money?

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Today, by using a Chinese language website, users can do all their business with Schwab online.

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Frankly, I have seen management in a service business in China by Chinese companies, and I do not think foreign players, least of all those from Japan, can compete.

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But Chinese factories have little trouble assembling digital cameras: all they need to do is to obtain advanced components from Japan that are pre-designed to work in harmony when snapped together.

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With all this new contextualizing material, I could do an exhibition on the design and outfitting of a Chinese tomb or on ancient Chinese music.

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Could Ralph Lauren -- the brand atop the long, integrated supply chain that takes apparel ideas from conception all the way to the consumer -- have forgone use of the Chinese factories that do most of the brand's cutting and sewing operations and, instead, contracted with U.S. factories for the Olympic uniform project?

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Regardless of all of the above, one thing you should always do when traveling around China is carry with you Chinese-language business cards of your hotel or of places you wish to visit so you can show passers-by, taxi drivers, bus conductors and the like.

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