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[Waving or Drowning?] With 5m car sales last year, China is already the world's third-largest car market, after America (17m) and Japan (5.9m). “China is going to become the second-largest market in the world sometime over the next two or three years,” says David Thomas, head of China distribution for Ford.
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[Gregspotts.com] American Jobs Blog By Greg Spotts: China: But isn't it possible that China does not want to be integrated into a political and security system that it had no part in shaping and that conforms neither to its ambitions nor to its own autocratic and hierarchical principles of rule? Might not China, like all rising powers of the past, including the United States, want to reshape the international system to suit its own purposes, commensurate with its new power, and to make the world safe for its autocracy?
[Chinastockblog.com] The China Stock Blog: Sector: Retail: The world's top brewers have been trying to expand in China as sales growth at home stagnates. While China's 1.3 billion people each consume an average of 18 liters of beer a year (compared with as much as 80 liters per head in Europe), brewers are betting that growing incomes and a move toward embracing Western tastes will lead to greater beer consumption.
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