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Auto trade comes of age

Western car makers are hailing a new era in automobile sales in China. Increasingly major foreign car firms are toughing out the less than perfect conditions in order to make their presence felt in a country where the number of drivers is potentially huge.

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Business Education Business Practice Markets Old Content

Number cruncher

Tom Orlik of the Wall Street Journal provides a handy reference for Chinese statistics

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Autos Old Content

Two to tango

The financial crisis has seemed to be one long and painful lesson in our inability to predict the future. But there’s still much at stake in trying. Economists’ views differ wildly on the sustainability of China’s current growth model, as well as the ability of the government to shift to a consumption-driven form of growth. […]

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Sporting good

Zhang Kun, vice president of corporate development at online sports video site PPTV, on football, Wimbledon and piracy

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Columns & Interviews Investment Politics & Society Tech, Media & Telecom

Better diplomacy, better science

China is using scientific agreements as an effective diplomatic tool