Those who read the tea leaves in the Chinese press think Kandi is very close to announcing a deal to sell 20, 000 or 100, 000 of their electric mini-cars to a municipal rental program, and the option holders almost certainly know that.
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Nonetheless, it is time to think beyond Huawei and ZTE in terms of Chinese vendors with the potential to be disruptive internationally.
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Mr. Quelch: I think that Chinese companies will add value initially in the B-to-B (business-to-business) sector, not the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) sector.
So we believe strongly and I think the Chinese believe that an arms race either in the Middle East or an international arms race is in no way in their interests, particularly -- we certainly know that -- for what drives the Chinese economy, energy is a big part of it.
Some analysts, looking at a recently released Chinese central bank report, think the Chinese will adjust the currency's value in the spring or the summer, but the evidence of the intention to do so is ambiguous at best.
"I think most Chinese do feel that things are going pretty well in China, economically at least to date, " said Orville Schell, director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.
Frankly, I have seen management in a service business in China by Chinese companies, and I do not think foreign players, least of all those from Japan, can compete.
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With only 4 stores in Asia and the Chinese gaga for Apple, you would think the company would be building more stores and they are.
Based on developments, primarily with the Chinese and the Indians, I think everybody agrees that we are in a better position -- I mean, "we, " globally -- to get some sort of agreement out of Copenhagen.
But they are still hugely up on the year and copper bulls think that prices will be supported by the booming Chinese and Indian economies, recovery in Germany and Japan and a growing appetite for commodities as a financial instrument.
And I think there's no doubt the Chinese have come to the rescue to some extent in that they have provided a strong market.
Still, if the people in the Bin Laden compound had wanted an Italian or Chinese takeaway, I think this is where they would have gone.
Generally speaking, what do you think will be some of the main opportunities for large Chinese real estate developers like Agile in the next five years?
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And that, plus increasing frustration in the American public more generally, I think created a context for conveying to the Chinese leadership the importance of getting these issues addressed sooner than later.
Lu Junchang of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues, however, think that they may have done so in the case of a newly discovered flying reptile called Darwinopterus modularis.
The first is Mr Kissinger's insight that Chinese strategists think like players of wei qi or Go, which means that, in the long term, they wish to avoid encirclement.
And food companies don't meet the disapproval in China that they do in the West: according to the Pew Research Centre, while 72% of Chinese think that fast food has made the world a better place, only 23% of Americans do.
Observers in the region, and in Washington, think that if the Xayaburi project were to go ahead, the next dams in Laos will be built by Chinese companies, taking China deeper into South-East Asia.
We think it'll be five to 10 years before the Chinese regroup and are able to do that in the developed markets because they've had a lot of setbacks at home in the face of intense foreign competition.
Its always hard to tell but on balance I think the Chinese government is aware of this, yet is willing to lose money on its capital investments in order to provide jobs for people moving to the city.
Many Chinese academics think it can be only a matter of a few years, but the government seems in no hurry.
In order to adapt your business to the Chinese market, you will have to understand how Chinese think and what makes them tick.
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