In terms of fashion and accessories, major brands have had to become more conscious of increasing consumer sophistication in top-tier cities by boosting the quality and selection of products offered while taking account of the fact that a significant number Chinese consumers of a certain income level often prefer to purchase luxury goods outside the mainland to sidestep high luxury taxes.
The chief attraction for me was the fact that dozens of Chinese automobile company executives and government officials would be in attendance, so my expectation was that I might get to chat with a few of them on the sidelines.
Because the simple fact is that the top one quarter of Chinese society is in an increasingly strong position to simply outbid Americans for the available supply of oil.
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First of all, the fact that Gary Locke is Chinese-American, does the President believe this will make him more effective as an ambassador to China?
The simple fact is that the bottom half of American income earners are losing oil consuming power to the top quarter of Chinese income earners and the top one tenth of Indian income earners.
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While it might be helpful to have Chinese cooperation in after-the-fact investigations of alleged auditing failures, regular inspections try to head off those failures in the first place.
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In fact, over 10% of the world's military personnel are Chinese.
Domestic sales are perking up as Chinese telcos roll out trials of 4G networks, but the fact remains that ZTE and Huawei get over half their revenue from exports of goods and services.
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In fact, Professor Nie Fengyang , Director of the Division of International Information at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told me that she was confronted with that very question at a presentation she gave recently to a group of Chinese bank executives.
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