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Behind the recent skirmishes between China and America - the latest surrounding the Dalai Lama's visit to the U.S. - lies a wide divide between the two nations over how they see themselves, each other and their place in the world. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's visit to the White House...
...would boost demand for the kind of quick, cheap meals that workers would fill up on during factory breaks or after a punishing shift, he decided to cross the Taiwan Strait and set up a factory in Tianjin in 1992. The timing was perfect. Master Kong is now the world's largest brand of instant noodles, with an enormous recognition rate that has enabled Tingyi to expand the line into bottled water, teas and snacks. "To consumers, Kang Shifu is a professional chef," says Wei of the brand's personality. "He cooks good noodles, so maybe he can make good...
...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...
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...prefers China to be like Japan: economically powerful and politically cooperative but strategically dormant and militarily inhibited. Knowing that this was never realistic, the second best outcome for Washington - captured succinctly in a 2005 speech by the then U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and current World Bank president Robert Zoellick - would be for China to demonstrate it is a "responsible stakeholder." America would ensure that China benefits from the global system of international rules and laws developed since World War II and institutions like the World Trade Organization. In return, having acquired a stake in this system, China would realize...