Another reason why French companies in aggregate have not done so well in China, says Wang Jiann-Yuh, director-general of the France-China Committee, part of MEDEF, the French employer's union, is that French businesspeople can be impatient, sometimes arrogant, and overly focused on short-term results.
Their disagreement involves not only the policy's future, but also (as so often in China) its past.
This is one of the reasons that IKEA is so popular in China.
Executives, meanwhile, admit that the boot-camp approach that serves so well in China may not suit less deferential workers elsewhere.
The battle for software dollars is so intense in China that researchers rarely work as a team on long-term software projects, Chinese scientists say.
They, and other companies, have helped finance ten HFC23-destruction projects so far in China, India and other countries--doing as much good as removing 58 million tons of CO2 a year from smokestacks.
Having released six albums and 2 EPs since 2001, he says that CDs are so cheap in China that only his Chinese fans are still in the habit of buying hard copies of his releases.
As yet, no national standards exist for magnetic stripes and account numbering, so almost all of the 300m or so cards in China are used only as cash-machine or debit cards in the issuing bank's home city.
Yet, Baidu will be the local partner in China telling how to do social so that it succeeds in China.
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But much of what they borrow has been invested in China, so part of their debt ought to count in China's foreign-currency exposure.
So there is an art in China to taking new initiatives but doing so in a manner that is not destabilizing.
There have been 14 confirmed infections so far in eastern China, including in Shanghai and Zhejiang province.
Mr. STEPHEN GREEN (Senior Economist, Standard Chartered): There's so much money in China.
Some of his graduate engineers voice alarm about the rivals pouring out of Asian universities and worry that SSOE does so much business in China.
Nigel White, the general manager of Avis in China, says that the rental market, which took about 40 years to mature in Europe, will do so in 10 to 15 years in China.
And there is so much money in China!
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Partly because many Chinese are just getting their first cars there has been little demand for map apps, but that is likely to change with the same blinding speed so much else in China has experienced .
So in that sense, China has been trying to develop relations with other countries so that its national interest will be served in other way.
Just as these companies so often run their businesses outside of China just as though they are in China, so too do they tend to handle their U.S. litigation.
Many iPhones were brought into China from Hong Kong and were cracked so that they would work in China.
But many of Apple's suppliers have manufacturing facilities in China, so it's likely that some portion of the components they build for the iPhone are made in China as well.
If acquiring overseas companies to gain access to technology, marketing and distribution channels in international markets is such an attractive proposition, why has it taken so long for industrial firms in China to venture abroad?
Apple might also want to rethink its iTunes Store business model in China so that it can generate sales in other ways.
So a similar offering in China to be launched by premier search engine Baidu should do just as well, maybe even better, correct?
So, so much money sitting in China looking for assets, and there are only a couple of assets you can buy if you're a Chinese citizen.
Or, we could decide, which we did, to open offices in 21 different cities in China so we can be there locally as these businesses are growing and consult them as they grow so they have someone local to help them.
But it would be nice to see more Asian faces on the runways and in American and European magazines so that the boys growing up in China, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and other parts of Asia would have role models they can relate to, models who have the same skin color or facial features as them.
Venture Beat says an astonishing 3, 000 daily deal companies have emerged in the past two years or so, including 1, 000 in China, 900 in Europe, and 600 in South America.
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