As I often tell foreign audiences, China is not just Beijing, Shanghai and a handful of major international cities.
And, the best investments for tech companies might not be in Beijing and Shanghai.
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Whether Huntsman runs or not, will Beijing now view and treat him differently for the remainder of his tenure as ambassador?
Manufacturing in China should help GM bring down the cost of its cars, not least because Beijing imposes a steep duty imports of luxury vehicles.
But he still does not have a Beijing hukou.
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The Gulf is left holding the incremental oil baby, with Washington and Beijing not merely unwilling to underwrite security arrangements, but inadvertently working towards an oil market based on volumes, not price.
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Moreover, Beijing does not wish to jeopardize its investments in the Iranian energy sector.
China's central bank governor has made it clear that Beijing is not offering any concessions on its exchange rates anyway.
Throughout the Olympics, there will be Beijing broadcasts not just of "The Today Show, " but "NBC Nightly News" and "Meet the Press, " as well.
There is already an ongoing interest in the athletes we've invested a lot of emotion in and what they do when they're not in Athens or Beijing.
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Committee spokespeople in Beijing did not respond to interview requests.
Yet, visitors to Beijing do not have to go too far off the beaten path to find dingy alleyways lined by what remains of the old courtyard homes that exist in clusters, like islands on the verge of being swallowed by the tidal wave of new China.
This is not some housing complex for Beijing's hundreds of thousands of migrant workers.
President Obama, during his recent visit to Beijing, was not able to get China to make this commitment.
Monetary-policy announcements from Beijing are still not as important as the Delphic words of Alan Greenspan, the Fed's chairman.
Thanou had threatened to sue the IOC and president Jacques Rogge if she was not allowed to compete in Beijing.
He has put behind him the disappointment of not being selected for the Beijing Games and a serious knee injury in recent years.
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They were young and middle-aged workers, people who lived in Beijing but did not have the much-prized residency permit that would allow them to settle with their families.
Double Beijing medallist Brabants will not compete at the top level this year, to concentrate on his medical career.
"That day when we saw the pollution, my son said let's not do fireworks this year in Beijing, " said Wang Yufeng, a 36-year-old teacher.
He did not make the final of the Beijing Olympics 100m in 2008 as he attempted to come back from a hamstring injury at the US Olympic trials that knocked him out of the 200m.
Analysts like Yulong Li, research director at Balentine in Atlanta, have been saying that a 20% to 30% year-over-year correction in Chinese real estate along coastal cities like Beijing and Shanghai would not be unheard of.
The company is a huge beneficiary of globalisation: able not only to source its products at low cost in Asia but to sell the finished goods there as well (there was a near-riot in Beijing when customers could not buy the latest iPhone).
China is the world's second-largest economy (by PPP) and still growing fast, with an increasing impact both regionally and globally. (Just think of the importance of Beijing's decision not to devalue the yuan following the 1997 financial crisis.) The country is a nuclear power and a permanent member of the U.N.
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