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Zhengchu Chen, general manager of Changfeng Motor, doesn't care if his company loses the race to be the first Chinese automaker to sell cars in America. He doesn't worry about rival automakers from the Chinese mainland beating him with coupes or sedans or mini cars that go 50 miles on a gallon of gas. What Chen does care about is exporting a competitive Chinese-made SUV, ideally within a couple of years. "What's important to us is for the market to accept us," he said through an interpretor in an interview at the Detroit auto show...
...sent away from the capital by his long-suffering boss, Chief Inspector Pak, until the heat is off. As in all good mysteries, what looks like a reprieve turns out to be even more trouble. While supposedly lying low, O stumbles across a bloody turf war between two rival intelligence departments over a lawless border town and into the arms of Elena, a Finnish-Chinese femme fatale...
...China's smiling face visible only to its south. In a cordial state visit last year, Hu reached out to India--an old rival with which it still has some disputed borders. The two countries pledged to double trade by 2010 and agreed to bid jointly for global oil projects on which they had previously been competing. Hu has also sought to mend ties with Japan, another longtime rival, with whom China's relations have deteriorated in recent years. Last October, Hu met the new Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, in Beijing just days after Abe took office, a visit...
...games against Dartmouth and remained in contention for the league title until it was swept at home by Princeton and Penn.A Big Green win would make it 2-0 and could lead to a similar title drive. But first, it must take care of business against its rival.“There’s a lot of history between these two teams,” Dartmouth senior guard Leon Pattman said after the game, in which he scored a game-high 27 points. “I know Penn and Princeton are usually the top games, but there?...
...before the Harvard women’s basketball team’s Ivy League opener at rival Dartmouth, Lindsay Hallion wasn’t practicing with her teammates, reviewing her playbook, or resting up for the long trip up to Hanover...