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Like so many other things that Americans buy these days without thinking, those tubes of Dr. Cool, Superdent and Everfresh Smile2 began their life in a factory in China --in this case, in Wuxi, a city of 4.5 million about 80 miles west of Shanghai. They were sold by Goldcredit International Enterprises, which is based in a gated community called Lakebank Elegant Garden, within sight of China's Taihu Lake. It makes not just toothpaste but also pencil sharpeners and balloons, hand sanitizer and toothbrushes. "What we exported is in line with the Chinese-government standards," Goldcredit business manager...
...afford full-time monitoring in China? Or from the discount stores that buy in bulk, sometimes without even a manufacturer's name on the products they sell? "Too many people don't have a clear understanding of what they are buying," says Benoit Rossignol, head of Shanghai-based Shiyao Investment Ltd., which advises companies doing business in China. "You have a responsibility for your end users...
...despite dining at these famous restaurants and splurging on pricy prix fixe dinners, our favorite meals were in the humble street stalls of Shanghai, worlds away from haute cuisine...
These morsels shamed all the cartons of take-away potstickers at Chinese restaurants back home. And even the best dumpling houses in Shanghai couldn’t compare to these mom-and-pop delicacies...
...same time, the optimists believe, Kim has sent signals that he is receptive to change in North Korea. They believe an early 2006 visit to the booming Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Shanghai was, as one former U.S. diplomat puts it, "for dough, not for show: he wants to see if there are ways to get a piece of the economic action for the North without losing control." This is the path Kim is now on, the optimists believe, and though he will be maddeningly quarrelsome in the process, they believe he will live up to his side...