Something that few of the Chinese firms have apparently achieved.
Adventurous Chinese looking for something new to do a decade ago pretty much had to settle for taking a trip across town to a McDonald's or a karaoke club, another spot that was exotic then.
Whether Chinese strategists have something useful to contribute analytically by looking through the lens of Sun Tzu or whether they have deluded themselves into accepting the capacity of information power to lift the fog of war remains to be seen.
The difference is, the Chinese government is doing something about that gap and investing in second and third tier cities in the interior of the country.
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Exchange rules may permit the Chinese authorities to attend the board meetings of listed companies, something that might not bother the NYSE, which does not face competition from Chinese exchanges in its home markets of Europe or America, but would probably horrify a global bank.
They speak Chinese to each other, something rarely done in Javanese cities.
Chinese wages are rising (something which we generally regard as a good thing, poor people making more money is a good thing), transport costs are rising and this changes the calculations about where is the best place to manufacture.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
The sight of those million workers at Foxconn getting richer, of 1.3 billion Chinese doing so, is not something to be decried.
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But our hero is Chinese and we wanted to do something different.
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Well, maybe the Chinese Yinghuo-1 could do something scientifically useful in Earth orbit, and maybe the equipment that is designed to stay on the Phobosian surface could be useful.
Tea was something to have when you were sick or at a Chinese restaurant.
These girls want something different, and very often it's a Chinese brand.
Frank Couvares, a professor of history and American Studies at Massachusetts' Amherst College, said that rather than something new, Hollywood's readiness to cater to Chinese demands on content reflects business practices the American film industry has had in place for more than seven decades.
Yang: What we are doing now is to try to make Chinese businessmen and the younger generation recognize there is something similar among all of mankind, to have good wishes for other people, and to try to get people to think about the relationship between themselves and others.
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Once a term used to suggest something cheap or inferior, shanzhai now suggests to many a certain Chinese cleverness and ingenuity.
And, after having been obsessed with the mammoth history and richness of Chinese culture for years, I was relieved to find something so truly beautiful that is so truly American.
"As we found in Britain in the 1930s, there's the evolution in the nature of the Chinese kitchen, maybe moving from a galley kitchen to something's that is more the heart of the home, " McGrath said.
While the policymakers in Washington may not understand economics and the basic laws of the capital markets, the legions of U.S. trained economists that advise the Chinese government understand full well that when you have more supply of something than demand, prices will fall.
If President Obama is to get the Chinese to do the right thing, he will have to offer them something they want.
In short, he thinks the Chinese economy has lots of room to expand and merely needs to accomplish something that smaller countries have already managed.
It is already becoming more of a middle income country in terms of per capita income compared to other Asian nations, and it is unlikely that Chinese consumption can make up for the decline in exports to Europe, something many investors are hoping for.
For something slightly less conventional but still very aristocratic, stroll among a Dutch windmill, a Chinese pagoda and a gothic castle -- all of which can be found in Parc Monceau, which was constructed by the eccentric Duc de Chartres as his private garden in the 18th Century.
In this case, it was four Chinese, who met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who decided to do something about it.
The latest rumours coming out of the Chinese manufacturing centre of the planet is that Apple is going to grace us with something called the iWatch.
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Japan began to adapt the Chinese writing system for its own use around 1, 500 years ago, and it is still something of a mixed blessing.
Modern Mormons have something in common with other industrious minorities, such as Parsees, who are prominent in corporate India, the overseas Chinese and Jews.
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