In December he and his direct reports spent a week in China.
The free-to-play game continues to gain steam around the globe, with an All-Star week in Shanghai, China that kicks off May 25 with the best players in five regions from around the world (North America, Europe, China, Korea and South East Asia) who were voted in by the community.
We have certainly seen some good news coming out of China here this week in terms of economic growth, and it seems as China goes, the copper market goes.
Now of course the real money is to be made overseas, and Iron Man 3 opened in much of the world last weekend before debuting this week in America and and China.
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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris said in report published this week that China was on course to surpass the U.S. economy in just three short years.
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According a poll in China this week, the Chinese actually respect the Tiger mothers.
While we were in China last week, we got an official answer to that question.
According to industry figures, 300, 000 people a day opened brokerage accounts in China last week.
Elop closes by saying he was in China last week, and met with the mayor of Beijing.
The European Union's consumer protection commissioner is in China this week, and American officials will follow her next.
However, some observers also caution that a three-day holiday in China next week could at least temporarily curb some of the global buying.
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This week, as he was in China visiting high-level government officials, Mr. Cook also toured an iPhone assembly line at a Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou.
However Nico Rosberg -- who finished fifth in Bahrain after winning in China the week before -- also saw the unpredictability as a positive.
Regular bag-man Alastair McLean had to fly home after picking up a virus in China last week and phoned Montgomerie at 6am saying he felt awful.
This week is a school holiday in China, but the children were called in to make up for time lost as a result of earthquakes last month.
Mercedes-Benz opens a new dealership in China every week.
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The former handset king which has struggled to remain popular in the last few years, won an important victory in China this week, striking a subscription deal with China Mobile.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn is in China this week, while Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake are expected to meet with their Chinese counterparts next month.
Pork prices in China fell last week for the first time in three months.
Meanwhile, both men were criticized for their decision not to play this week's HSBC Champions event in China.
And based on my experience in China the first week of January, what is happening there is profound.
There is a big leadership conference in China later this week, and there are key European Union events occurring this week.
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In the past week, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the country's top securities watchdog, has instructed brokerage and fund-management firms across the country to examine their bond-trading books for irregularities.
Accounts of the deadly attacks last fall in Mumbai, India, the May 2008 earthquake in China and last week's plane crash show what used to be just a virtual gathering place to communicate pet peeves or plans for the weekend has evolved into a go-to spot for eyewitness news -- sometimes even before mainstream media has had time to crack the story.
This week, the American Chamber of Commerce in China released its annual China business survey for 2012.
The deal comes just before the beginning of high-level economic talks between the United States and China in Washington this week.
At the giant China import-export fair in Guangzhou this week almost everyone I spoke to said orders from Europe are falling and that's hurting China's exporters.
Other sorts of business are being affected just as directly: shares in CTCI Corp, which builds petrochemical plants in China, fell sharply last week after four of its Taipei-based employees fell ill with SARS-like symptoms.
To shore up some support, Apple's CEO Tim Cook last week traveled to China for the second time in ten months -- a visit interpreted by some as an effort to fight Apple's falling market share in the country.
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