To operate in China, the Council itself must provide documents from America's State Department, the Chinese Embassy in America, the cities of Washington and Shanghai, the local tax authorities and the local branch of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
Despite coming together at the last minute, being architecturally uninspired in comparison to other country pavilions, and showcasing almost entirely its own corporate sponsors (aside from the Committee of 100 exhibition on the Chinese experience in America), the USA Pavilion still draws the second highest number of daily visitors.
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The Museum of Chinese in America kicks off its Lunar New Year Family Festival on 2 February with performances by local dancers, kid-centric Mandarin workshops, hands-on arts and crafts projects and a chance to learn more about Chinese holiday customs and rituals.
And finally they ignored the elementary rule that children rarely choose their parents' drinks, which meant that the young Chinese, often educated in America, took to wine or beer, disdaining the bottle of cognac which had formed the centrepiece of their parents' dining tables.
The combination of a 24% rise in the yuan against the dollar and a 21% increase in Chinese unit labour costs, relative to America's, explains the steep appreciation shown in the chart.
Since 2000 the number of Chinese and Indians studying in America has doubled, whereas the number of Japanese has dropped by a third, to a fraction of the other Asian countries' total.
Danny Bowien, the thirty-year-old Korean-born chef and main owner of Mission Chinese Food, grew up in Oklahoma eating the Chinese dishes of Middle America, fried rice and lo mein.
If the Mandarin-speaking Rudd's open attitudes to China (which, granted, come easier in a nation that sells so much to the Chinese) are instructive for America's protectionist social democrats, the new prime minister is in a position to serve not just his countrymen but globalization's cause.
Consumer purchases ranging from buying a new car to purchasing movie tickets or seats to see a favorite NBA basketball team all help illustrate both the extent to which Chinese companies have entered our lives in America, and underscore the fact that typical American consumers, may not even know which companies are made in China in the first place.
The carmaker has returned as the world's largest by volume - less than three years after it was rescued from bankruptcy by a US government cash injection - on the back of strong performance in both North and South America, as well as in Asia, including the buoyant Chinese market.
They would be the kind of innovative, hard-working go-getters countries want to attract, such as the engineers of Indian or Chinese extraction who received 14% of the patents awarded in America between 2000 and 2004, even though these ethnic groups make up less than 5% of the population.
Mr. YERGIN: Ten years ago the thought that would happen in a Chinese oil market could possibly have had an impact on what motorists in America pay at the gasoline pump would have seemed just unrealistic.
But he was met with immediate skepticism from the Chinese delegation in the audience, who questioned America's role in the Pacific.
Lee, a freelance curator, critic and the co-founder of dGenerate Films, the only specialty distributor of Chinese independent films in North America.
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But China shares one important advantage with India: the army of overseas Chinese who have made their home in America, particularly Silicon Valley.
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In the past couple of years Chinese state energy firms have struck multi-billion-dollar shale deals in America with Chesapeake Energy, mainly for shale oil, and with Devon Energy Corp for gas.
This is the highest ever sales figure recorded for the first half of the year, buoyed by continued retail demand from the Indian and Chinese consumer markets and stronger than expected demand in America, De Beers said in its earnings report.
In the 1990s, when the "old-technology" steel industry in the U.S. was failing, Bain Capital helped build a new steel company, Steel Dynamics, which has grown into one of the largest steel producers in America today, holding its own against Chinese producers.
Every year, 1.2m engineers and scientists graduate from Chinese and Indian universities, as many as in America, the European Union and Japan combined and three times the number ten years ago (see chart 7).
While trade has boomed, Chinese investment in Latin America has hitherto amounted to less than meets the eye.
In the wake of the busted deal, Chinese energy firms shied away from North America.
Faced with declining aluminum prices and rising costs, the largest producers in Europe and North America are starting to reduce output and hoping their Chinese rivals will make bigger cuts to send prices higher again.
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.
Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once was a symbol of America's love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker.
In addition, World Bank research showed that some 62% of Chinese exports to America and 48% of exports to the European Union faced non-tariff barriers in 1993.
Those who provided labour for the housing boom in America (notably Latinos), Ireland (Poles) and China (rural Chinese going to cities on the eastern seaboard) have been among the first to be laid off.
Chinese engineers at Wanxiang America's headquarters in Elgin, Illinois, talk to customers during the day and plants in China at night.
In the latest trade spat with China, America said it would impose tariffs on imports of Chinese solar panels because of alleged export subsidies.
He sends Chinese architectural and construction teams abroad to study stadiums in Europe, South America and, with the World Cup construction boom, in South Africa.
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