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Strengthen regional co-operation
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The transfer of advantages of resources in the Lancang-Mekong
River region into economic advantages must happen soon, so as to
realize comprehensive development.
The 4,688-kilometre-long Lancang-Mekong River is the longest in
Southeast Asia, flowing through China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand,
Cambodia and Viet Nam.With a total area of 810,000 square kilometres
and a population of 250 million, the whole basin of the river is
called the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). The GMS, a land primed...
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China: Eyeing the U.S. with suspicion. (World).
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; On April 1, after a U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea, tensions between the two nations escalated. The Chinese fighter pilot was killed. The spy plane, with 24 crew members, made an emergency landing at a Chinese air base on Hainan Island (see map, p. 13).
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Auto sales rapidly rising in China.(China experiencing increase in automobile sales)
Plastics News
; Byline: Rhoda Miel The automotive industry is taking a major turn to the East and asking its suppliers to come along for the ride. Like the cell phone, electronics and computer industries before them, automakers are shifting production to China, seeking not only low-cost production of components,
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China's winning Olympic spirit
The Boston Globe
; ... remarked that a cage needed noisy birds to make it lively. Such confidence was highlighted by President Hu Jintao in his first news conference ever with foreign journalists just days before the Games, during which he said he hoped that the Olympics would help ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Inflated claims; Economics focus.(Is China causing prices in the rest of the world to rise?)
The Economist (US)
; Why China is not to blame for the surge in global inflation MANY people in America and Europe think that the recent surge in inflation, like almost everything else these days, is made in China . For a number of years, cheap Chinese goods helped to reduce prices in rich economies, but more recently
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China's advantages come with worries for auto suppliers.
Crain's Detroit Business
; ... Intellectual-property risks and regional protectionism can smother a developing, breakthrough technology,'' she said. The good news is China's universities produce 70,000 engineers a year. Auto production in China is growing at 10 percent a year and shows no ...
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