Bloomberg reminds us that despite the sales increase, Apple is not a dominant force in the world of Chinese mobile.
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Falling consumption dashes hopes around the world that Chinese consumers will be buying foreign products and thereby stimulating growth in other countries.
In other words, China had to first catch up with the rest of the world before Chinese companies and individuals could even think about inventing new technologies, or building global brands.
The big losers in this fight are obviously the users themselves as well as Tencent, since the majority of Chinese netizens have sided with Qihoo against the company, which was not exactly known for its popularity in the world of Chinese IT.
They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
In addition to world-class Chinese and Pacific Island displays, the museum boasts a fine Native American collection.
Around the world, the Chinese government has funded Chinese-language study centres, called Confucius Institutes.
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Our beef is among the best in the world, and Chinese consumers are eager to buy it.
Sprawling across 180 acres of downtown Beijing, this vast palace served as the symbolic and political centre of the Chinese world for more than five centuries.
During the Edo Period (1615-1863), when Japan cut itself off from the wider world, only Chinese and Dutch traders were allowed into the country.
McNERNEY: I think one related question, looking at the world from the Chinese side, is what they would characterize as impediments to investment in the United States.
"Over the next 10 to 20 years, a big phenomenon in the world will be Chinese and Indian companies, once they have scale in their own markets, expanding oversees, " he said.
The economic relationship we have -- and then the security of that region of the world and of the entire world -- are important in the role that the Chinese must play as world actors.
Second, it will drive Chinese investment towards Europe and other parts of the world where the political attitude towards Chinese expansion and investment is seen to be more friendly.
On Wednesday, the World Bank predicted the Chinese economy will expand 8.4% next year.
No wonder Siberia, remote to so much of the world, looks to Chinese eyes like a convenient granary.
It may not be strictly legal, but this World of Warcraft themed Chinese theme park looks absolutely amazing.
Poly rocked the Chinese art world when it bought them for a total of four million dollars at auctions in Hong Kong in 2000.
To better understand the virus's spread and potential for human-to-human transmission, Chinese and World Health Organization officials said Wednesday in Beijing that they plan to boost surveillance and research on H7N9.
Chinese and World Health Organization officials said Wednesday in Beijing that they plan to boost surveillance and research on the H7N9 virus to understand its spread and potential for human-to-human transmission.
Next week, the landscape could change again with the launch of Blackberry 10, and then in February the Mobile World Congress will see Chinese firms like Huawei pushing for a pace at the smartphone table.
All that we have seen since, from entry into the World Trade Organization to Chinese-made toys at Wal-Mart to Louis Vuitton boutiques in Shanghai to the Beijing Olympics, started with that bit of ping-pong diplomacy.
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On a recent branding mission to China, we learned that every child in Chinese elementary school is taught the three Chinese innovations that changed the world: gunpowder, the compass, and movable type (Chinese ancients also invented paper currency).
Insofar as the world depends on China's growth, the state of the Chinese banking system is the world's problem.
There is no doubt, though, that it will be a different world as 1.3 billion Chinese, and another 4.4 billion people who live in India and other emerging markets around the world, begin to have the same aspirations as the 1.0 billion who live in the West.
The disaster served as a rallying point for the Chinese government to reach out to the outside world and to instill patriotism and humanitarianism among the Chinese.
Yes, the last few days have really shown us the increasing importance of the Chinese market on world market.
This is all happening at a time when the rest of the world is looking to the Chinese consumer as the last hope for the global economy.
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