However, it is starting to look like the Chinese may revalue the yuan.
It doesn't look like the Chinese market has hit anywhere near its peak yet.
But like the Chinese capital, which underwent rapid modernization in the mid-1990s, Hanoi is loosening up.
Is the Chinese luxury consumer now aspiring to be like the Chinese faces modeling her favorite brands?
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And would he like the Chinese to take a tougher line with Pyongyang?
It seems like the Chinese do see the potential for improved lifestyles and are willing to both work hard and save for it.
Locally-operated websites like the Chinese microblogging services, search engines, online video websites and blog hosts, are required by the government to remove any objectionable content.
Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.
Mr. ROHATYN: I think it's a necessity and include people like the Chinese, the Russians, the Brazilians, the South Koreans, and these people ought to be at the table.
But if that rating was ever threatened, and it is not this year at least, bond holders like the Chinese government will ask for higher interest rates to make up for the risk.
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In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings and the weather is always perfect.
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Abroad, despite their size, they are yet to become the global champions that the Chinese government would like them to be, even though the Chinese have sought for many years to learn from foreign corporations.
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Like 2008, the Chinese economy is now emitting strong signals it wants to correct.
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In cases like these, the Chinese acquirer is looking to establish and develop its corporate name recognition abroad.
Hiring highly skilled workers, like the Indian and Chinese graduates who flock to America, might be a better bet because it would introduce fresh ideas.
The swelling Mississippi overtook the ponds, and the carp, native to Chinese rivers like the Yangtze, escaped.
Carved in grey stone, the great Chinese traveller looked like the kind of chap who would have difficulty running to catch a bus.
But, in the long run, it may well be that the vast and growing diaspora of Chinese entrepreneurs like the Pans that will have the greatest impact.
Like most Chinese from the countryside, my former students tended to marry early, and that spring I often received letters describing their courtships.
Baidu, the ten-year-old leading Chinese search engine firm, is developing a new mobile operating system, like Android or Windows, the Chinese media reports.
In fact, local companies (like Baidu) own the Chinese search market!
And like Japanese banks, the Chinese ones gather deposits from thrifty households but lend only some of these back out, mainly to companies, parking the vast excess in government bonds and with the central bank (although the Chinese government, unlike Japan's debt-laden government, is a net creditor that invests these excess funds overseas).
Today the Georgia Tech graduate and three other founding partners have succeeded like no other Chinese entrepreneurs in the booming business.
Baidu is one of the largest Chinese Internet giants along with companies like Sina, Tencent and Alibaba, and it is also the biggest Chinese search engine.
Generally speaking, what do you think will be some of the main opportunities for large Chinese real estate developers like Agile in the next five years?
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Yet, sports were not altogether neglected: trainers, facilities and travel funds were amply provided by the Chinese government for sports like table tennis and gymnastics (both top individual and not team sports, interestingly) where the Chinese excelled.
The Europeans like the idea, and a few days ago, the Chinese came on board.
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