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...Still, overseas influences aren't excluded. Septwolves maintains foreign designers on its staff, and its advertising campaigns use both foreign and Chinese models. But there's no ambiguity about the target. "We've designed styles that are especially tailored to the Chinese," Zhou says. When Chinese consumers really start to make their mark on the world economy, we can expect a lot more of the same...
...When Zhou Shaoxiong decided to produce a domestic line of menswear in 1990, Western designs were in universal demand. Zhou was well versed in foreign style - at his Fujian factory, he had been producing export garments for five years, and the early designs of his own line, Septwolves, were almost identical. At the time, Chinese manufacturers seeking a reputation for quality and modernity still felt obliged to ape Western brands, as they had been doing for decades. "Like many other domestic companies, we started out aspiring for such influence," Zhou recalls...
...sees it differently. In leading one-fifth of the world's population toward greater prosperity, China is creating its own paradigm that borrows freely, but stands apart, from the East Asian model of development, let alone Western approaches. Therefore, foreign criticisms about poor progress in economic and political reforms do not apply. Moreover, Pax Americana in Asia has been an aberration in existence for only six decades. In contrast, in Beijing's view, the return of the Chinese civilization-state simply restores Asia's natural order...
...author of Will China Fail?, is the foreign policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington...
...lines in Manhattan." That scheme, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, represented "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since Sept. 11, 2001." Zazi, who was arrested last September, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan in 2008, intending to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. Instead he ended up at a Pakistani al-Qaeda training camp...