He played down the idea of China as a rival, saying there was room for both countries here.
Analysts from the Chinese Academy of Social Science and China Development Research Center have proposed the idea of one-time 10% revaluation of the RMB.
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For less sanguine investors, the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation.
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In a speech, Mr Greenspan challenged the idea that China's pegging of its currency against the dollar was harming US jobs.
The Chinese market was not able to offer any respite for Japanese exporters, as investors were still coming to terms with the idea of a moderate stimulus package in China, rather than a large scale infrastructure-heavy stimulus package.
"Environmental protection is a new idea in China, " says Li Yihui of the nation's Environmental Protection Bureau.
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Pessina, in particular, sees China and other Asian markets increasingly open to the idea of partnering with a larger player like Alliance Boots and Walgreen.
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Analysts at ICAP Shipping Research in London shrug off the idea that there will be a glut, since shipments of cheap Australian coal and iron ore to China have for years been constrained by a lack of big ships.
The weak dollar has inspired a lot of rumor trading, including the idea that several Gulf states, along with Japan, Russia and China, are in talks to start pricing oil according to a basket of currencies.
Finally, the idea of joining with European nations to abolish export credits for airliners is impractical because new aircraft exporters such as Brazil and China are entering the global market who would not be party to any such agreement.
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