The chart shows pretty clearly that China is now key to foreign demand for American logs.
"I think most Chinese do feel that things are going pretty well in China, economically at least to date, " said Orville Schell, director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.
China has pretty much done absolutely everything that any Keynesian could possibly ask in terms of trying to boost the economy through both monetary and fiscal stimulus.
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When Lenovo bought the IBM PC division, the Chinese company sold pretty much just PCs in China.
China is doing pretty well at these things lately, and living standards have been rising because of it.
The cuts have been pretty widespread with the 2010 forecast for China cut by 12%, for India by 7% and for Indonesia by 3%.
At the turn of this century, it looked as though China would have the field pretty much to itself, having brought 250m out of poverty since its autarky ended in 1978.
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Shanghai generally seems pretty upbeat and the World Trade Organization-bound China seems willing, if not desperate, to reinvent and integrate itself into the New Economy.
When you buy a T-shirt that says "made in China, " there's a pretty good chance it's made of cotton that was grown on a farm somewhere in the United States.
The difference is that a stimulus plan in China was done in an underlying atmosphere where there was pretty strong demand anyway.
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He is also pretty much of a tech geek and has written about Japan and China, in books and for The Atlantic. he is a master of thoughtful analysis grounded in deep reporting.
"Inflation has been damped pretty dramatically in the U.S. because it exported work to China and other places at 20% or 30% of the cost, " said Hal Sirkin, a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
In the last few years China has had increases in standards of living and income that are pretty much equivalent to what took 500 years in the West.
For instance, China - the number of medals that you're predicting has gone up pretty dramatically.
It might not be as bad as a bull in a china shop, but a steer in the lobby of a historic Denver hotel comes pretty close.
It's fueling strong growth in China, India, the U.S., which is also growing at a pretty quick clip.
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