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Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

If the Schumer-Graham bill closes down U.S. trade with China through the imposition of steep tariffs, a saving-short U.S. economy will simply have to divert a significant portion of its multilateral trade deficit elsewhere.

I did somehow manage to get into a college in China that trains diplomats when I was 17, one year before my peers could go, which is very very difficult. I was very proud I did.

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.

I dispute the premise, ... I think most people you talk to would say our relations with Japan, Korea and China have rarely been better.

If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty!

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

Leaders of both sides agree it is in the basic interests of China and Vietnam and their people to promote friendly mutual trust, cooperation for mutual benefits and common development between the two countries and the CPC and the CPV,

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

There are only about 10 airports in China that are profitable, some only in terms of cash flow. Overall, Chinese airports have the potential to make money.

When two countries agree to work together, there's no need to pin down details at the highest level. It's different between China and the United States... because it's difficult for these two countries to work together.

We need China to be more active on this front ... and India as well.

We're looking at ways we can provide the skills and assistance that will best help China to investigate these cases and hopefully confirm some diagnosis.

Much more than America, much more than Europe, China really does look at the very, very long-term view,

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

Much of this liquidity appears to be coming from China and increasingly Japan where investment trust growth is supplying significant volumes to foreign bonds with little regard to the rising global imbalances that policy makers frequently flag as a risk to the global economy.

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Since implementation is always a wild card as China struggles to build nationwide uniformity in the legal system, there will always be concerns about inconsistent or selective application of the law.

Sincerely, we wish and hope that China would have the honor to earn the auspicious Olympic Games in 2008 and we will share with their victory,

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

Since she wouldn't be able to be a part of it there, we're bringing a little bit of China to her. I know I would never be able to make up that experience of living in Asia for her, but we can experience part of her culture here. Why would I expect her to embrace my culture without me embracing hers.

Six decades ago, Taiwan already returned to China both in a legal sense and in a de facto sense, ... The legal status of Taiwan as an inalienable part of Chinese territory is not to be doubted or challenged.

Six or eight years ago most people in the world couldn't access housing finance. That's no longer the case today and it's due to growth in India, China and other places like Ireland.

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belize and the Republic of China in 1989, Taiwan has been good to Belize. Over the years, the ties of friendship have been strengthened through a dynamic technical agricultural mission and economic cooperation in the housing and infrastructural development, trade, investment and tourism promotion.

Medical insurance should become very attractive to middle-class families in China because they really don't want to undertake that risk themselves.

Mike was a prime mover in the contemporary China field -- in some respects, the prime mover -- for much of the past three decades,

Most other countries' petrochemical firms are making big profits. In China they are seeing negative growth.

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Since the (suicide), Japan also urged all our staffers in China to use caution against spy activities, and warned all embassies abroad.

Since the tax reform in 1994, China has applied two tax systems to foreign and domestic companies. Although both systems stipulate a tax rate of 33 percent, foreign companies could pay much less tax than domestic ones because of more preferential treatment.

Shares rebounded from Friday's fall with property stocks and large cap China Mobile leading the gains. The momentum was, however, not strong enough for the index to touch the 16,000 points level.

Many believe that the GDP growth in China will continue, and this will create more upside for retail shares.

Many people argue that oil interests are the driving force behind the Iraq war. For China, it has been a reminder and a warning about how geopolitical changes can affect its own energy interests. So China has decided to focus much more intently to address its security.

Many of our floral pieces will be created onsite here in Fenton and transported to Detroit by truck. We have to add additional staff for this work. We provide linens, china and stemware for the gatherings.

Solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula peacefully through dialogue is the most realistic and proper approach and China will continue to make unstinting efforts in this regard,

So it is in that connection I can tell you China will not sit on one hand.

So far we haven't come across a compelling investment proposition in any Singapore-listed China stock.

Sentiment in the market is still quite good thanks to a bounce in China Mobile and China Unicom.

Since 1978, for almost three decades, China has been growing at over nine percent a year. Yet since 1979 East Asia has been more stable and more peaceful than any other time since the opium wars of 1859.

Since 2000, China has enacted serial regulations and laws for Internet service providers, by which China manages its Internet market in line with international conventions.

Since Bush assumed the presidency, China and the United States have made significant progress in cooperation in various fields, bringing substantial benefits to both countries and playing a positive role in promoting peace and development in Asia Pacific and the rest of the world,

Since China moved on the currency last July, the economy has been charging along. China should feel comfortable and confident in driving through reforms. There has been no economic or financial turbulence.

Simply because as a matter of fact China still has plenty of rural surplus laborers and people are talking about a magnitude of more than 200 million - so you know from national-wide point of view, there is plenty of labor supply there.

Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being and until we see Nasdaq stabilize we won't see a big change in the market psychology.

Secretary Albright was in China with government officials and people in the private sector to help them better understand DP World's interests in China.

Secretary of State Rice made clear in her remarks that the U.S. favors a referral of Iran to the Security Council for sanctions if negotiations fail, ... because the Bush Administration suspects that Irans uranium enrichment program is a nuclear weapons program, but the resistance from Russia and China to vote for sanctions, may undermine a U.S. referral.

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Olin's many accomplishments include negotiating on behalf of the US Government a number of financial market agreements with other countries. China is a very important market for AIG.

She's my bull in the china shop. I asked her to give me 110 percent, and she gave me 140. Susie is a machine and the glue behind this team. She left everything on the ice.

So many of the consumer electronics we buy from China are simply assembled there from parts made in other Asian countries. In yuan terms, that would make the parts they buy cheaper. So it wouldn't have much effect.

The primary reasons behind the back-to-back triple digit losses for the Dow are fears of a U.S. policy of protectionism against China and rising oil prices.

The principal reason we didn't lose out to China as everyone had predicted is because labor in Bangladesh is cheaper than anywhere else in the world.

What I conclude from this is that we need another export outlet for our crude oil. I suggest China and Japan would be excellent outlets for some of this crude.

Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

I have implicit faith in Sun Yat-sen, not because I am his blind follower, but because he really arouses the deepest respect in everybody. I do not know of another person in China who has such a broad and international outlook, whose ideas are so constructive, and who has such deep faith and confidence in his own mission.

King's visit is very important to Cambodia because China is Cambodia's old and true friend and China is playing an important role in the region and the world,

Harley-Davidson has succeeded for 100 years. We hope China will continue that trend for another 100 years.

I wouldn't rule out commercial uses either, though China Mobile is unlikely to recklessly sell sensitive information on its high-end customers, given how much effort it expends to keep them happy.

Kids in China and India are getting a better education.

Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

There are so many opportunities for growth in China -- it just doesn't stop. Every year, there are more than 30 million TV sets sold, 20 million DVD players sold and 20 million home entertainment centers sold. Even if sales were to slow down in mobile phones, they'll be made up elsewhere.

Given the different national conditions of China and Canada and given our different history and cultural traditions, it is quite normal for our two countries to have different views about human rights.

Given the domestic demand-led recovery, I would expect Japan to increase imports from China and other Asian economies this year, in a move to share the role with the United States as a major driving force in the world economy.

Given the evidence of deteriorating investment efficiency, China needs to rebalance its growth by shifting away from investment toward consumption.

Given current developments, China hopes Iran will restore suspension of all activities relating to uranium enrichment and create the conditions for appropriately resolving the Iran nuclear issue through peaceful negotiations.

Growth is down from last year. The U.S. and China led demand growth last year but that's changing. The situation in China and has changed; they are not using as much distillate fuel for power generation.

I am turning cautious on China equities. Growth has been fully priced in and re-rated, and a 'China premium' is re-emerging.

Friendliness, goodwill, non-aggression, sovereign equality, independence and non-interference in internal affairs have come to constitute the towering edifice of Nepal and China relations,

For sure by 2006 China will become number four and by 2010 it will be more than Germany.

France is looking for more economic expansion in Thailand and the region. Politically, this is also a new area to compete to get influence. The United States, China and India are now competing for political influence in ASEAN, and France, a leading European country, does not want to be left out.

France sees China as an important part of that. China and France have declared a strategic partnership and both sides think about how to restrain US power and France would like to play the China card.

From today onwards, in China Yahoo means a search engine and a search engine means Yahoo,

Fundamentally, though, it stems from the fact that China will post a $250 billion surplus on its trade with the United States this year and there's simply no sign of that easing any time soon.

Further development of China's trading relationships with the United States and other industrial countries will work to strengthen the rule of law within China and to firm its commitment to economic reform,

further productive discussions with China in the mutual interests of the two countries.

Further work continues to be necessary in order to make this possible, including explaining what we plan to do to European public opinion, as well as to our international partners, including the US but also China too.

For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.

For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.

Freeing up the currency by the end of March is impossible. In the meantime, I think China needs to speed up its currency reform. And the U.S. should learn to be a bit more patient about it.

From a technology standpoint, the deficit with the world is much larger then expected and with China it's much larger too. We continue to break records we didn't expect to see.

From an equities point of view, we think China will go from strength to strength over the next couple of years. We might see some adjustments, but I don't think they will be major corrections and that means there should still be plenty of investment opportunities for us.

If China can't even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.

If China does not respond to some of these environmental or human rights issues, then it's going to be very difficult for the Chinese government to maintain some form of political stability, given this hot pace of development.

If China does not roll out its own trunk-liner by 2020, then the country will not succeed in 2030 or 2040 so it is really a rush.

If China does what it says it will do and it respects the Hong Kong way of life, ... they will continue to prosper along with everyone else in Hong Kong.

If China gets into WTO first, Taiwan should quickly follow in China's wake. Probably within a month... as after this period China will gain voting rights.

If China introduces all these more flexible measures, and capital decides it wants to leave China, then it makes it easier for the currency to go down. If the currency begins to weaken, you'll find quite a lot of people taking money out. It tends to be self- fulfilling.

If China is happy to see local interest rates rise, then it's happy to see some tightening monetary conditions in general and therefore could arguably be more receptive of yuan reform.

If China isn't moving, then the right thing to do is go home.

If China lets multinationals' malicious mergers and acquisitions go ahead freely, China can only act as labor in the global supply chain.

If China sets no preconditions, both parties can talk about issues of mutual concern.

If China slams on the brakes, there's going to be a wave of pricing pressure.

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.

If China truly wants to be part of the great world, and be a citizen of the world, they must act like a citizen of the world. China has never lived up to a trade agreement, so why do we think they're going to live up to this one?

If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.