At a minimum, the business environment in China will be an unstable and unpredictable one for some time to come.
In more candid moments, foreign car executives will say they expect a punishing regulatory environment in China in the next few years.
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He indicated that he placed priority on reunification with his family and that he sought relocation to a safe environment elsewhere in China.
Although Chinese consumers love Japanese technology and styling, the ongoing dispute over the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea has created a negative environment for all Japanese goods in China, including autos.
Western companies in China are operating in a largely lawless environment.
Rising costs, higher incomes for Chinese labor and an increasingly competitive international business environment will pressure the big corporations in China again this year.
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My unexpected find was a number of American auto supplier executives who were excited about state and local governments in Indiana, the environment for electric vehicle innovation there, and their opportunities in China.
And, in the current economic environment with slowdown in Europe, weak macro economic environment in the U.S. and slowing growth in emerging markets like China and India, many in the airline industry anticipate low sales for these super jumbos to continue over the near term.
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Japan's antimissile program prompted a "fierce argument" during vice-ministerial talks in Beijing last year, when China argued it would "alter the currently stable strategic environment in Asia and bring about a new arms race, " the Japanese press said.
Despite a challenged global growth environment due largely to Europe and slower expansion in China, Caterpillar booked its biggest revenue increase since 1947 and its best sales and profit figures since 2008.
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The environment ministry reveals that more than 3, 000 places in China have "grim" chemical pollution with "cancer villages" arising in many places, Legal Daily reports.
My own experience suggests that China does take the environment seriously, and in a number of areas, the country is actually well ahead of those in the more developed parts of the world.
Apart from economic matters, Russia and China also cooperate in areas such as the environment and diplomacy.
But contrary to outward appearances, the opportunity for China lies, not in cleaning up its environment, but in selling related technologies to foreigners.
American executives say that in the past few months they have seen a reversal in the U.S.-China business environment--but most refuse to talk about it publicly for fear of antagonizing China, the fastest-growing big economy.
None of the resting workers yet know when they'll be going back to work, and some are now beginning to worry that their livelihoods may be sacrificed in China's bid to clean up its environment before it is too late.
There will be the need for China to remain cost-competitive in the global environment.
Even in a shifting geopolitical environment, U.S. policy toward China should continue to reflect the fact that globalization means interdependence, and interdependence demands cooperation, not conflagration.
For producers of many chemical and energy products, which reduce the country's scarce natural resources and harm the local environment, Beijing has completely eliminated the rebates to keep those goods in China.
However, the investment environment has been subdued this year in Hong Kong because of the slowdown in China.
If the White House makes clear the rules of engagement, there will be less room for misunderstanding, and an environment will be created in which positive business can be done and in which China might evolve, ultimately, into a liberal democracy.
Like many other military powers, China has exploited the unprecedented general peace in the international security environment to reexamine and experiment with its own defense capabilities and doctrine.
Our objective is to shape the environment in the Asia Pacific region in which the peaceful rise of important countries, including China, contributes to the common good, is fundamentally stabilizing and not destabilizing, and in which every party can contribute to the work at hand.
Failure to take care of an environment exacts costs not just financially but in terms of health and public trust (again see China).
These organizational dictates work well in China, and companies operate with speed and focus in a shifting, uncertain environment.
The growth of the industrial base in China is actively supported by government agencies in addition to stimulation of an entrepreneurial environment.
China said the raids were carried out in an effort to "purify the network environment".
Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.
The symposium was organized in Shanghai (China) by MAB, in co-operation with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
China's challenges will grow as its economy expands, particularly in regard to developing an environment in which entrepreneurs can flourish without landing in the crosshairs of local party apparatchiks.
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