"There is a Chinese phenomenon known as 'guanxi, ' which translates literally as 'special relationship, ' " explained Chadwick.
If you are still not convinced of the folly of our policymakers' objections, consider this: As our U.S. athletes march around the track at London's Olympic stadium wearing their Chinese-made uniforms and waving their Chinese-made American flags, there is a good chance that Chinese athletes will have arrived in London by U.S.-made aircraft, been trained on U.S.-designed and -engineered equipment, wearing U.S.-designed and -engineered footwear, many having perfected their skills using U.S.-created technology.
"Ultimately there is a very good relationship between the Chinese and Spanish governments and there is no kind of conflict at all between the two peoples, " El Pais quoted the spokesman as saying.
"There are things happening in Chinese football but there is still a long way to go, " Asian football expert John Duerden told CNN.
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There is no doubt that the Chinese government is placing a priority on innovation and, in particular, patenting technology.
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Beyond trucks and construction equipment, there is a keen interest in importing Chinese cars.
In theatres and temples, there is a chance to see popular Chinese opera and puppet shows, while karaoke rings out of bars and markets.
Most Chinese institutions lack that software and there is a memory gap of 20 years between 1980 and 2000, when no Chinese institution collected Chinese contemporary art.
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"There is a huge, rich seam of Chinese drama and we know almost nothing about it, " he says.
For Chinese companies there is a certain prestige that comes with listing on a U.S. exchange, and Wall Street certainly has the incentive to keep serving up as much product as they can with investors clamoring for a piece of the well-documented emerging market growth story.
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In China, in particular, there is a sense that Apple products benefit from Chinese manufacturing resources and consumer eagerness, and that this carries a price in a country that wants to build out its own innovative, consumer electronics industry.
And even though a dollar goes a lot farther there than it does in Washington, an interns pay is lower than a Chinese shoe maker.
There is a little of the same arrogance: that Chinese finance can teach the outside world a thing or two.
There's a report that a Chinese company is looking to buy, basically, the Hummer division.
Both stories signal that there is a limit to how much even the deep-pocketed Chinese will pay for resources, even though securing resource assets is a stated national goal.
As Jeffrey Li, the head of Novartis's Chinese operation, points out, there is also a shortage of facilities that can produce high quality artemisinin and its derivatives.
Investing in Chinese assets can be difficult, but there is a certain amount of trust investors must have in order to put there money into these reverse-merger stocks.
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The furniture is minimal: There is a long dining table painted chartreuse and small, bright-blue Chinese peasant cloth pillows sit on two white couches.
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Investors believe there is a lot more room for China internet companies to grow as more Chinese go online and buy smartphones and tablets.
Chinese holdings of Treasury debt (of which there is always a lot to buy) are ever-present in debates on budget and trade.
Nor is there much appetite in the U.S. for Chinese stocks after a string of flameouts and duds (though others are thriving).
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On the Chinese side too, there is plenty of evidence that relations have undergone a sea change.
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But like any form of unwritten protectionism there is a fair degree of just cause in the actions both of the Europeans and the Chinese.
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Not surprisingly, there is a keen interest in this nowadays but also, in particular, from parents of Chinese origin who want to pass on the language to their kids.
Adidas, a long-term deal with Coty perfumes, a three-year partnership with luxury watch maker Breitling launched last November and his most recent signing to a multi-year paying stint promoting the Chinese Super League, there is no end in sight to the revenue-generating business of Beckham.
Yet although they remain tiny compared with Chinese giants like ICBC and China Construction Bank, there is often more than a whiff of Beijing about the Indian state lenders.
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There is a great deal of interest on the part of both types of investors, but the Chinese sources are offering more attractive terms, can act faster and do not conduct nearly as much due diligence.
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