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...When Li Ning first came to the American West, he shocked the world by winning six Olympic medals in gymnastics - three of them gold - during the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Prior to 1984, the People's Republic had never even won an Olympic medal, and Li Ning was China's undisputed star of the L.A. Games, becoming an instant Chinese sports legend...
...This year, Li is back on the West Coast - or rather, his eponymous sportswear company is - setting up its first U.S. retail store in Portland, Ore., not far from the headquarters of archrival Nike. This isn't the first time China's biggest shoe company will go toe to toe with Nike, which has aggressively marketed itself in China. But for once, it won't have home-court advantage. Eyes are on the Portland area, also home to Adidas America and Columbia Sportswear, to see if Li Ning can once again surprise the world by taking on American powerhouses...
...much of an answer. While South Korea has Samsung and Hyundai, and Japan has Sony and Toyota, in the U.S., China is largely associated with the mass production of low-end goods, with few of its own international brands. To battle China's reputation for cheap imitations, Li Ning has hired top designers from Portland's rich pool of shoe-design talent and placed its high-end sportswear in an airy showroom in a Portland's chic Pearl district. (See pictures of Olympic shoes...
...Harold Li of the Child Welfare League Foundation in Taiwan - where the filicide-suicide rate is the highest in Asia (61 reported cases since 2008, with joblessness mostly identified as the cause) - agrees that trouble arises when "the boundaries between family members are not clear." The child victims of murder-suicides in the West are typically killed in violent attacks, as one partner's way of taking revenge on the other. In Asia, on the other hand, parents leap together with their children or succumb arm in arm to carbon monoxide inhalation in a kind of ghastly euthanasia...
...Google's cause, in the form of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Jan. 21 speech on Internet freedom. In fact, only in the past few days has anyone from the Chinese government even conceded publicly that Beijing was talking to Google at all. But on March 13, Li Yizhong, head of China's powerful Industry and Information Technology Ministry, made sure there was no confusion. "If you don't respect Chinese laws, you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and you will bear the consequences," he said. (See pictures of Chinese mourning their potential loss of Google...