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...early entrant, Chindex was able to negotiate a 90% ownership interest in its Beijing hospital. In 2000, China officially permitted foreign companies to pursue hospital and clinic joint ventures but limited ownership to 70%. Sino-U.S. joint ventures share the marketplace with players such as Singapore-based Parkway Group Healthcare and Hong Kong--based Global HealthCare...
...recent thaw in cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China would be adversely affected as well. This is not to say, however, that the United States government should give Beijing a blank check to conduct its affairs as it wishes. We are extremely concerned about several issues where further Sino-American cooperation and reform from Beijing can help to ease international tensions and improve the lives of millions of people. We acknowledge, as Washington’s critics often point out, that American foreign policy is not perfect, but we believe that a healthy respect for the national interest...
...elegant if subtle acknowledgement that the Americans present had contributed to this extraordinary moment in China's long history. Henry Kissinger, the architect of the opening to China in 1972, was there. So, too, was former President George H.W. Bush, who took considerable political risks at home to rebuild Sino-American relations in the wake of Tiananmen Square. And also Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive of AIG and one of the earliest and most aggressive U.S. investors in the New China. They were joined by a legion of American CEOs. But Bush and Kissinger - bureaucratic rivals within...
...optimistic projections of an air turnaround for the Olympics are based in part on the results of previous exercises in barring cars from the streets of the capital. During a Sino-African summit in 2006, vehicle restrictions were enacted that removed about 800,000 of Beijing's then 2.8 million cars. The restrictions, which were put in place for three days, were "remarkably successful" and led to a 40% drop in nitrogen oxides, according to a study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute...
...story building in Beijing is one of the few places in China where you'll hear people speak fondly of Japan. Inside are the offices of the Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection, where experts study how Japan became one of the world's greenest countries, with the aim of applying those lessons and methods to China. "Japan, on an international level, is a responsible country," says the center's vice director, Xia Guang. "We recognize that Japan's work promoting environmental protection in China has real seriousness, and we thank the government and people of Japan...