Here Is America's Best Hope For Ending China's Ping Pong Dominance
New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz is surprisingly among the best ping pong players in the country, and the owner of the largest table tennis center in the U.S. He also has a master plan to...
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Why Luxurious Five Star Hotels In China Are Deliberately Making Themselves...
Why would a five-star hotel want to make itself a less luxurious and more crappy? That's the questions observers asked themselves this week after Chen Miaolin, vice president of the China Tourism...
View ArticleLearn Chinese In 10 Minutes
Chineasy is a strategic, easy-learning project by entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh that teaches people to recognize Chinese characters through simple illustration. Watch ShaoLan's presentation at the DLD...
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America's Manufacturers Should Get Ready To Eat China's Lunch
Veteran market strategist Rich Bernstein recently published his list of three secular investment themes.Among them: the American Industrial Renaissance."Small and mid-cap US-focused industrial and...
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8 Predictions For China's Super-Rich In 2014
With the global elite gathered at Davos for the World Economic Forum, a groundbreaking new report released yesterday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists detailing the massive...
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US Suspects China Of Gaming The Solar Industry
The US Commerce Department has opened an investigation into whether China and Taiwan are dumping a certain class of solar cells into the US market at below fair market value.Launching the latest round...
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Here's The Week-Old China Story That Has Some People Freaked Out
The emerging markets are getting slammed, and it appears to be rattling the entire global financial markets.Initially, folks were comfortable blaming it on Wednesday's China flash purchasing managers'...
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Ian Bremmer Explains What's REALLY Going On Between China And Japan And The...
The dominant theme of the World Economic Forum in Davos is geopolitics. Specifically, there's a lot of interest in the mounting tensions between Japan and China and there's a lot of interest in Iran,...
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China's Naval Inexperience, Lack Of Communication Cause Concern In US Officers
(Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander in the Asia-Pacific region acknowledged his concern on Thursday over entrenched tensions between Japan and China, a day after Japan's prime minister evoked...
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Google's Boasts About Ending Surveillance Are Hard To Swallow
Google's Eric Schmidt is at the Davos World Economic forum right now talking up his company's potential to end government surveillance and censorship completely using solely "strong encryption,"reports...
View ArticleChina Made Renting An Electric Car As Easy As Buying Skittles From A Vending...
Kandi Technologies has created a massive vending machine for electric cars in Hangzou, China. Customers in Hangzou just have to walk up to this multi-storied garage called a Kandi machine and hit a few...
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Chinese Consumers: Doing It Their Way
The market is growing furiously, but getting tougher for foreign firmsIn the heart of old Shanghai is a magnificent villa that serves as the workplace of Guo Jingming, a provocative young film-maker....
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Industry Leaders Can Do Little To Avoid The Next Wave Of Cyber Espionage
US cyber security firm Crowdstrike recently released its 2013 Global Threat Report on state and non-state sponsored cyber espionage campaigns, and it has some interesting implications.In short, if the...
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12 Dead After Apparent Terrorist Attack In Western China
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police shot dead six people during a "terrorist" attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang and six more died when explosives they were carrying detonated, state media...
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China Has Gone From Making The World's Stuff To Buying It
For the better part of 20 years, China has been the world’s factory, and its low labor costs have helped tamp down inflation in developed nations by allowing them to import cheap, Chinese-made goods....
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China To US: Stop Investigating Our Solar Industry
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's commerce ministry called on the United States on Sunday to stop anti-dumping investigations into imports of solar power products from China, expressing "serious concern" and...
View ArticleThe Best Case Scenario In China Is A 'Long Landing'
A painful decline to slower and slower growth is the best case scenario for China, says Michael Pettis, professor at Pe- king University’s Guanghua School of Management. Forget about a soft landing —...
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People Are Wondering If This Is The Year China's Debt Bubble Bursts
The Chinese Lunar New Year starts on January 31. It is the Year of the Horse. For investors suffering in Chinese stocks, the pain makes it feel more like the Year of the Charley Horse. Many are...
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This Map Shows China's Impending Travel Hell
This Friday, the 31st of January, is the beginning of the Chinese New Year. Over in China, that means that we've entered into the period of the Chinese year named "Chunyun," the 40-day period around...
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Innovation Isn't Over In Smartphones, As Companies Compete To Build Great,...
Is the smartphone market dead in the water? The flood of inexpensive smartphones rushing into consumer hands globally is relentlessly pushing down their average price. Observers whine that the...
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