Before the 1980s, health care was essentially free in China.
Yet, even setting aside the difficult issue of how much of a free ride China can expect, the EU's policy applies to individual companies, not countries, for which there is no such dispensation.
Sensing such a risk, Brazilian industrial groups nipped in the bud some recent discussions about a Brazil-China free-trade agreement.
One of the Bush administration's strong arguments for free trade with China is that America's sales to that country are growing.
As Mark Cuban bets on the yen going down, investors see the renminbi headed higher and are putting their free cash into China.
Saga has nonetheless started a (child-free) operation in China to take advantage of better transport.
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He added that getting China to free up its currency would take time, patience, and high-level contacts.
"That is an astounding number given that we know how to prevent tobacco-attributable death and disease, " says Dr. Sarah England, the World Health Organization's ( WHO) Tobacco Free Initiative Officer in China.
True to his word, Garcia has followed free market policies, signing free trade agreements with the United States, Canada and Singapore, and pursuing free trade deals with China, the European Union and Chile.
On at least one policy front, Clinton said if corporations were allowed to bring overseas money back tax free from places like China on the grounds that they invest in infrastructure here, then that would be good for the economy.
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In April, China signed a free-trade deal with Iceland, its first with a European nation.
It wants to conclude a free-trade agreement with China by the end of the decade.
Apple is offering interest free installment sale options in China.
And Indonesian textile firms are lobbying against the full implementation from next year of the free-trade agreement between China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
Pinera attributes Chile's integration into global markets to free-trade agreements with China, the U.S. and Europe and the government's mission to transform the country into a developed nation before 2020.
Shanghai claims last year to have become the first city in China to provide free education for all migrant children, mostly in state-run schools, with some in subsidised private ones.
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If big international investors were genuinely free to develop markets in China, they would provide the Chinese with a wider range of products and services, and make new and better jobs for that huge, willing labor pool.
Free trade deal talks between China, Japan and South Korea that finally got underway in Seoul yesterday have also been widely welcomed by Chinese experts, despite predictions that the negotiations may stall over opening up sensitive sectors like farming and manufacturing, further territorial spats or even US resistance, Liberation Daily reports.
Two decades of free-market reforms have given China an ever-more affluent urban middle class.
That might be the cornerstone for an even bigger free-trade area eventually including China, the world's second-biggest economy.
Properly mobilised, it would have made approval of both the North American Free-Trade Agreement and the China trade bill much easier.
China Unicom generated negative free cash flow of about RMB 30 billion, triple the negative RMB 10 billion it had in 2011.
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The combination of lower labour costs and duty free access means that orders from China are likely to receive a boost in the coming years.
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Every day we read of major U.S. companies borrowing cheaply in the U.S., as intended by the stimulus efforts, but then free to invest that capital in China and other Asian nations.
The increasing numbers of wealthy Chinese, Indians and Indonesians are helping fuel the shift to low-tax Asian centers, according to the report, with Hong Kong in a strong position to benefit from the Chinese government's moves to free-up international trade in China's yuan and the growing number of Chinese millionaires looking for a safe place to invest their money.
He said that foreign pressure would not force China to move faster to free its exchange rate.
It is also about to launch a free-to-play edition in China which will charge users for weapons and other upgrades.
It faces daunting challenges from China Inc. and the free software movement, and its high-margin boxes may yet fall under the same relentless cost pressure that has long strained most hardware businesses.
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