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There's a real wish within the group to win in the marketplace. We have people in our factories and our partner factories who have been working on our products for 20 or 30 years, and they are proud. I even met a shoemaker in Florence who had been in the factory for 45 years...
...Conceivably, the change in wording suggests differences in policy. Many Chinese foreign-relations experts, for example, have long favored a more conciliatory posture toward Taiwan. They remain deeply skeptical that Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian could ever become a trusted negotiating partner but fear that threatening Taiwan with military action may only drive the island further down the road to independence. That sentiment is shared by many who worked on Hu's "Peaceful Rise" theory, according to a scholar who consulted with them. This source says Jiang opposed the slogan partly because it sent too soft a message...
...He’d become a partner if we’d enter into a corporate agreement and he’d be able to reap any benefits from the site,” Cameron Winklevoss said in May. “It wasn’t as if we told him to build this site and then would have said good-bye, get out....He never asked for compensation, but we would have been happy to pay for his services...
...price itself out of the software outsourcing business, which has provided most of the sector's growth. "If the Indian [technology] industry keeps growing at present rates of 40-50% annually, then the current outsourcing model could break down in two to three years," warns Avinash Vashistha, a managing partner at neoIT, an IT consulting firm. U.S. outsourcing clients "will stop thinking of India as a one-stop shop for all their technology needs" and will turn instead to the Philippines, Russia or even Vietnam...
...Chinese industrial backwater may seem a minor concern, but it has ominous overtones for the rest of Asia. China's fast-growing economy and voracious appetite for raw materials (as well as for cars, cell phones and other middle-class baubles) has made it an increasingly key trading partner for its neighbors. Demand from China, for example, played a large role in hauling Japan's export-driven economy out of a prolonged slump. The mainland's neighbors have already been warily monitoring Beijing's efforts to cool overheated sectors such as real estate, fearful that clampdowns on credit and investment...