Emergent global talent pools, from Eastern Europe to India, from China to Southeast Asia.
Eric Tan, executive director of Enterprising Fabric in Hong Kong, says U.S. buyers are urging his company to move production away from China -- to Southeast Asia.
It bought companies in East and South Africa, Bangladesh, Malaysia and created a hub in Singapore with plans to open up routes from China and Southeast Asia across to East Africa.
The growing trend of multinationals shifting some of their product sourcing from China to other countries in Asia has been driven by a combination of rising labor costs, worker shortages, inflation, currency appreciation and changing policies.
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Of course, if he were to impose a 25% Trump Tax on Chinese imports, manufacturers might just move their plants from China to India or other parts of Asia which is already going on in the never-ending quest to keep costs low where there is no Trump Tax, at least until he expanded it to other developing countries.
Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
And three years ago, Taipei encouraged its investors to "Go South" and put money into Southeast Asia to diversify their investments away from China.
"It was a packed hall, and there were a lot of hostile questions directed to China from (participants from) Asia and the United States, " said Dupont, director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney.
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According to a survey of finance directors from small to mid-sized companies conducted by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants, Asia Pacific countries from China to Singapore believe theirs and the global economic outlook were getting worse.
In fact, if anything, we have been importing goods that we used to export particularly from China and Asia.
Promoters say it is well situated for shipping raw materials from China and the Russian Far East to the rest of Asia, or Asian-made goods across the Trans-Siberian railroad to Europe.
The intensity of the contest reflected a broader wave of changes taking place in other parts of Asia, where, from Thailand to China, rising incomes and the Internet's capacity to provide new information and opinions are raising expectations for more responsive governments.
However, that demand mainly from China is beginning to taper off as the slowdown starts to hurt Asia as well.
Four years ago the company appointed its first marketing director for the whole group, Andrea Ragnetti, who was given the job of refreshing the company's brand to compete with cheaper products from China and South-East Asia.
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Throughout Asia, trade to China has gone from 2.2 percent in 1991 to 24.4 percent today while Japan accounted for 22.4 percent of Asian trade and is now down to 13 percent, according to the U.N.
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Most countries outside East Asia suffered a deteriorating trade balance with China from 2001 to 2008.
Qualcomm, which has a big presence in China, gets close to 70% of its sales from non-Japan Asia.
Whatever Chinese intentions are, it is doubtful that China will have the military capability to expel the United States from East Asia.
She also boasted this week of an agreement to set up a fund to buy toxic debts from banks in South-East Asia, China, South Korea and Japan.
These visits have provoked the usual grumbles from China though not quite as fiercely as some expected but these in turn have not received the usual bland response from South-East Asia: the Philippines' dusty comment was to remind China that there was a financial crisis to worry about.
The number of luxury stores in China has nearly doubled over the past five years, according to estimates from brokerage CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets.
Most North Korean refugees leave via China and head for nations in South East Asia, from where they can get to South Korea - which provides financial assistance and training.
According to polysilicon producer Renewable Energy, the move by the Chinese government to set up preferential tariffs to boost cleaner energy sources could herald the shift in demand for solar panels from Europe to Asia and the U.S. Some optimistic estimates suggest that China may add as much as 7 GW this year, which is roughly equal the capacity added in Germany in 2011.
The new site in China is expected to help boost Asia's contribution to the revenue stream from 16% to 20%.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Convention, Chinese National Academy of Arts (China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage), International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP), Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Hangzhou Municipal Government are planning to co-organize the West Lake Expo on Traditional Craftsmanship in the Asia-Pacific Region from 17 to 21 October 2013 in Hangzhou, China.
Obama is scheduled to return from Asia on November 20, after stops in Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea.
Not to mention a varied and unpredictable portfolio of international challenges -- from a volatile Middle East to evolving economic and security challenges in an Asia increasingly defined by China.
In particular, revenues from China are up 67 percent year-over-year to 6.8 billion, while Japan and Asia Pacific are up 88 and 89 percent, respectively, just from last quarter.
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