Dollars are pouring in from China's trade surplus, as well as from foreign direct investment and from speculators betting that China's currency will appreciate.
The U.S. buys a lot more from China than China's consumers buy from America each year.
The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.
The stock sale, Goldman's sixth since 2009, completes the firm's exit from China's biggest lender ahead of new international capital rules that ratchet up the cost of holding stakes in other financial companies.
China's public security ministry reportedly received word from China's embassy in Venezuela in 2011 of dozens of cases of robbery, kidnapping and extortion targeting Chinese citizens.
The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were construction workers from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.
More disturbing to the Americans are Russia's efforts to profit from China's demand for sophisticated arms.
Zhang says he's optimistic because the U.S. company's management approach differs from China's biggest homegrown chains'.
The court's decision drew an enthusiastic response from China's Twitter-like microblogging services, which have become de facto forums for national discussion.
It would indeed be ironic if a change in China's exchange-rate policy came not as a result of American pressure, but from China's own disillusion with the dollar as an international reserve currency.
Nonetheless Amazon faces stiff competition from China's largest telecom carriers, such as China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Chengdu's award-winning rehabilitation has drawn delegations from China's other major cities to study its methods and many of its planners have taken their expertise to other towns and districts in the region.
China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.1%, to a six-week low, after the country's National Bureau of Statistics indicated net income from China's largest industrial groups dropped 5.2% in the first two months of the year.
But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
It's being geared to become Vietnam's Tencent or Shanda, two runaway success stories from China's early start-ups.
The U.S. imports way more goods from China than China imports from the U.S. The trend seems irreversible.
Whereas Brazil, Chile and Peru benefit from China's hunger for commodities, Colombia's exporters face difficulties.
The number of engineers and electrical engineers, respectively, graduating from China's colleges every year.
Winning concessions from China's politically powerful oil refiners are among the challenges environmental regulators face.
The official news agency, Xinhua, said these symbolised good wishes from China's 56 officially recognised ethnic groups.
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For starters, banks last year benefited from China's efforts to tighten lending to curb inflation and surging property prices.
But in spirit they embody precisely what sets Macau apart from China's other freewheeling coastal cities: its bicultural heritage.
But workers displaced from China's export industries will have to find jobs elsewhere.
This will favour big Western firms and low-cost Chinese ones, especially those with friendly support from China's state-controlled lenders.
They are dominated by state-owned enterprises, which can count on cheap loans and energy from China's state-owned banks and utilities.
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Regional investors took some encouragement from China's official manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index for February, which rose to 51.0 from 50.5 in January.
Ten thousand a day could visit from China's mainland alone: hundreds of extra border guards are in place this weekend in readiness.
Knowledge of the language is kept up mainly by people like him who belong to the Xibo people from China's far north-west.
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