Chun, the most gregarious, is a go-between for Chinese T-shirt manufacturers and their Iranian customers.
For example, in 2011's Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Shia LaBeouf wears a T-shirt made by Chinese clothing maker Metersbonwe and, in one scene, a character drinks a carton of Shuhua milk made by dairy group Yili.
His wife, Millie Chu-Baird, is Chinese-American but can't read or write Mandarin, having grown up in Columbus, Ind.
But Shing-Tung Yau, a Chinese-born Harvard mathematician, doesn't see it that way.
In this issue Tokyo-based correspondent Benjamin Fulford explores a Chinese frontier that hasn't often been in our news in recent years--because few English-language journalists go there.
Films made as co-productions with Chinese companies aren't considered foreign there, so they can skirt the state quota of 20 imports per year.
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The U.K. didn't ask the Chinese for an investigation until mid-February.
Don't worry -- we haven't forgotten Microsoft, which is the least active of the three companies in the Chinese gaming market.
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The U.K. didn't request that Chinese officials investigate the death until mid-February.
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To put it plainly, the Chinese manufacture for us the shoes, t-shirts and socks that we could only manufacture stateside at a profit if Americans were willing to work for next to nothing.
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They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
Solyndra's technology is excellent, he says, but it just couldn't compete in the market with low-price panels from subsidized Chinese makers.
In its current state, even a speculated tie-up with Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE wouldn't vault Motorola back into No. 2.
In one study of telecommuting at a Chinese online travel agency, customer-service reps were both happier and more productive when working from home -- probably Yahoo service reps aren't any different from their Chinese counterparts in this regard.
If a CEO wears jeans with T-shirts tucked in instead of a suit and tie, said one Chinese observer, his sartorial taste will likely to be called "Jobs style".
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Although the bond business isn't as lucrative, it is a viable alternative for Hong Kong-based Chinese investment banks, which lag behind their more established global peers in sectors such as asset management.
The FCC isn't the only agency playing with devices we don't even know exist: its Chinese equivalent has recently had some hands-on time with an unknown Huawei smartphone, codenamed the P6-U06.
One reason Mr. Pleskowicz and a new generation of Rubik's fanatics can solve the notoriously difficult puzzle in record time: They don't use Rubik's Cubes at all, instead substituting souped-up Chinese knockoffs engineered for speed.
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The FCC isn't the only agency playing with devices we don't even know exist, and its Chinese equivalent has recently had some hands-on time with an unknown Huawei smartphone, codename P6-U06.
In fact, Harris, the Seattle lawyer who has chronicled the issue on his "China Law Blog, " speculates that "honest and legal" companies--particularly American and European ones--could be left holding the bag if Chinese exporters don't pay the tax, as he says is often the case.
Bangladesh garment exporters say the other advantage they enjoy is that more than 90% per cent of their products, such as T-shirts, jeans, sweaters and casual trousers enjoy duty free access to the Chinese market.
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The plea agreement required that he abandon all claims on the T. bataar and the duck-billed dinosaur, and on four more Mongolian and Chinese dinosaurs to which federal prosecutors could now connect him: two oviraptors and two more T. bataars, one of them believed to be somewhere in Great Britain.
Again, like I said, I don't think he said the word "discuss, " meaning I don't want either my answer or your question to leave the impression that we haven't been in discussions with the Chinese, the Russians, and our partners in the P5-plus-1, as well as in international efforts involving the IAEA and others to address the nuclear weapons capability of Iran.
One important tangent of this discussion hasn't had much exposure in the United States: the now 25-year-old wave of new Chinese documentary (and documentary-influenced fiction), whose development has paralleled the nation's emergence as an economic powerhouse.
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What we don't know The Sharper Image for, though, is its broad selection of no-name phones procured from Chinese manufacturers.
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Last year more than a million visits were made to Chinese ski areas that hardly saw anybody or weren't even open as recently as the mid-1990s.
Fu claims her Chinese-born parents, who immigrated to Northridge, Calif. in the 1980s, didn't pressure her to excel.
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