Tag Archives: America

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists

Hawaii, California and Las Vegas are among American tourist destinations vying fiercely for a vast and largely untapped new market segment: the Chinese tourist [...]
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Technology, Innovation and the Environment: Obama pushes for energy jobs

US President Obama says America can generate more jobs by investing less on foreign oil [...]
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Internet in China: Internet population hit 384 million in 2009

China's population of Internet users jumped by nearly a third to 384 million at the end of 2009, an official report showed recently, just a few days after Google threatened to retreat from the expanding market [...]
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Internet in China: Watch the complete video of Obama’s town hall meeting in Shanghai

For those who couldn't access the short clip of Barack Obama's Q&A in Shanghai with Chinese college students, a video of the town hall meeting (November 16th, 2009 12:45 pm local Shanghai time) provided by the White House it can be seen below [...]
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Living in China: GDP could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030

China's economy could be 2.5 times that of the US by 2030, based on Japan's experience and the yuan's appreciation against the greenback, a senior Chinese economist says in Harvard Business Review's Chinese edition. The forecast by Justin Lin Yifu, head of Peking University's China Center for Economic Research and recently appointed chief economist of the World Bank, in the May issue of the magazine published on Thursday is one of the most ambitious for China's economic growth...
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