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sayaka uchida

How To Avoid Getting Kidnapped In China - Forbes.com - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...i-leadership-managing-hui.html

china business

shared by sayaka uchida on 04 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • There are a lot more similarities than differences between the U.S. and China. But some of the differences are substantial.
  • Americans confronted with business disputes expect to turn to lawyers and courts. That isn't done nearly as often in China. Companies, especially smaller private ones, turn instead to relationships. If they don't have relationships to turn to, they sometimes fall back on threats and physical fighting. But you see many more paper tigers than real ones.
  • Use relationships rather than legalese whenever possible to solve problems.
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  • Many Americans have heard of guanxi, but it's often translated wrongly to mean relationships with powerful people
  • Guanxi means something very different from the American concept of connections.
  • It means being in a social circle where you can let your guard down a little, because there is deep trust, perhaps from generations of coexistence, living in the same neighborhoods or even with interwoven family relations.
  • Long-term perspective is very important in China. A defaulting borrower should avoid saying he won't pay and instead pay a little right away and explain that he is hurting but will make good in the future. You cannot rely on bankruptcy to absolve debts.
  • ou need to know that relying on the law to avoid making payments to Chinese businesses doesn't usually work
  • To be successful long term, your company must have strong contracts and good legal advice, but it also needs to understand the importance of relationships, and nurture those as well.
Rika Ninomiya

City of Melbourne - International relations - Osaka - 0 views

www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm

Osaka Melbourne SisterCities

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The sister city relationship with Osaka was the first that Melbourne established.
  • A strong and beneficial sister port relationship already existed (established in 1974) between the Port of Osaka and the Port of Melbourne.
  • However, the sister city relationship was not formally established until 24 April 1978 at a ceremony in Osaka attended by the Lord Mayor. The stated aim at the time was to establish 'a people-to-people relationship with the aim of developing mutual friendships and a lasting and understanding relationship'.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09
     
    It's not an official or new article but I actually just found out about this and thought this is pretty cool. They even have a logo of Melbourne and Osaka Sister Cities.
xinning ji

China still interested in Asia-Pacific plan | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,25197,25971687-16953,00.html

shared by xinning ji on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • China understood the proposal was a multilateral issue that would be considered separately from the present difficulties besetting the Sino-Australian relationship .
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
       
      I think what the decision China made is rational and considerable. this is because when the emergence of globalization, China begun to face up to criticizes from foreign countries, like human rights, democrcy, one party domination... finally, national issues quickly became international business. among these criticizes, some are honest but some are fake. With these pressures, nevertheless, China has changed even if it is slowly. During these days we can explore the tension on the relationship between China and Australia due to several issues. however, this article makes me happy to see the growth of China. the reason is that China learned to how to communicate to the world. although China would like to participate into the multilateral issue, it does not mean its compromise on other issues. As Chiese ambassador stated that a multilateral issue and the present difficulties are two different things. in other words, China still insists its own right on national sovereignty. what I trying to say is that every country has an obligation to build up a peaceful and mutual respect and understanding world. we can hold our own right, we respect each other, and we live together in one world.
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Rudd's proposal of an Asia Pacific Community akin to the European Union is a ridiculous idea. There already exists several organisations in the region (ASEAN, APEC, ASEAN + 3, etc.) which serve to achieve exactly which Rudd proposes an Asia Pacific Community will achieve. Not only is Rudd participating in "megaphone diplomacy" which will likely undermine Australia's relationship with many Asian countries but next to no thought has gone into how this organisation will operate or even what countries will be included.
glen donnar

Gerd Nonneman: Delicate relationship where national interests and morality often confli... - 0 views

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shared by glen donnar on 22 Jul 09 - Cached
  • London's and Riyadh's policies towards each other have been driven primarily by pragmatic considerations of political and economic advantage. Certainly religious and political issues of conviction, matters of pride and intercultural communication have, on occasion, come to the fore – such as King Faisal's decision to impose an oil boycott, the furore in 1980 over the documentary Death Of A Princes
  • s, or the often ill-informed British media commentary about the nature of Saudi politics. On their own, such issues tend not to reorient policy very significantly or for very long. Yet they do have the potential to complicate relations even when neither government wants them to.
Rika Ninomiya

NZ undoes $1m whale case against Japan | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,,23662989-16953,00.html

Japan Australia

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • AUSTRALIA is likely to abandon its $1 million attempt to take Japan to the international court over whaling after New Zealand gave up its plans to use legal action to stop the annual cull.
  • using aircraft and ships to gather evidence against Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.
  • But the New Zealand Government has since discovered "significant difficulties" with taking Japan to the international court and has abandoned the tactic.
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  • The hunt for evidence against Japan in its "scientific hunt" for whales became highly contentious when the crew of the environmental crusader ship Sea Shepherd was accused of piracy and violence after activists threw bottles of "acid" and boarded a Japanese whaling ship.
  • Tokyo wants to ensure Mr Rudd's first trip to Japan as Prime Minister is positive and concentrates on climate change and potential joint regional aid projects rather than whaling and the perceived snub in his failure to include Japan on last month's 17-day world trip, which included four days in China.
  • In December, Australia issued a demarche, or formal diplomatic protest, on behalf of numerous nations over Japan's plans to cull about 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
  • It is estimated that Australia's "evidence gathering" to form a case against Japanese whalers in an international court, which included the voyage of the Oceanic Viking and aerial surveillance, cost taxpayers more than $1 million. The Rudd Government has been "considering" the evidence for three months and has still not made a decision.
  • pro-Chinese to the point of being anti-Japanese.
  • "agree to disagree on whaling".
  • The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister have signalled they want an end to the diplomatic row with Japan although they still vigorously oppose whaling.
  • Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Andrew Robb said yesterday Mr Rudd had to calm relations between Australian and Japan. Mr Robb said Mr Rudd's perceived "China bias" had caused concerns in Indonesia, Japan and India.
  • Mr Robb said the Prime Minister had sent a "gun boat" after Japanese whaling ships without picking up the phone to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09
     
    Very very interesting article on the relationship between Japan and Australia. Especially, after reading an article I posted previously on Okasa and Melbourne being Sister Cities. Apparently Australian government is against whaling done by Japanese and trying to gather evidence, spending over $1million, to bring Japan to an international court. And the article also mentioned how Mr Rudd is seen as Pro-China but Anti-Japan, Indonesia and India, making these countries worry.
Christoph Zed

War Profiteers?: Study Reveals Germany Is World's Third Largest Defense Exporter - SPIE... - 0 views

www.spiegel.de/...0,1518,553755,00.html

economics germany export defense military EU Europe globalisation markets

shared by Christoph Zed on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Germany Is World's Third Largest Defense Exporter
  • Once one of the world's most aggressive powers, Germany today likes to project a pacifist image
  • a report released yesterday by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), a German think tank, reveals a different side of Germany's relationship to war.
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  • Germany, it turns out, exports nearly a billion euros worth of military goods each year ($1.55 billion) to developing countries.
  • That makes Germany the European Union's biggest military goods exporter, and worldwide it's behind only the US and Russia,
  • The BICC's annual report, guest-authored by former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, focused on the rise of military spending all over the world, a development that the end of the Cold War was supposed to reverse. Instead, global spending on weapons and armies rose by 15 percent between 2001 and 2006. Today it tops €650 billion ($1.1 trillion). A third of that is spent by the US.
  • "We see a revival of Cold War politics without the Cold War -- a Cold Peace, if you will."
  • "Apart from America there are a number of fast-growing countries -- like China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, not to mention Russia -- where the global trend towards militarization is showing itself most clearly,"
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia-China tie 'challenging' - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8211025.stm

globalixation china politics economics power-play

shared by Christoph Zed on 20 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Australia is disturbed by China's detention of an Australian executive; China is angry that Australia allowed a Uighur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, to visit.
  • Australia sells huge amounts of natural resources to China and, despite hitches in the relationship, signed a new gas deal this week with PetroChina.
  • "China has significant interests in Australia. China's interests in Australia go to its long-term needs for its resource security," Mr Rudd said.
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  • Chinese media meanwhile, has called Australia "sino-phobic".
amy wu

China rebuts report of violating India airspace - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_8643508.htm

China India airspace violate

shared by amy wu on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • amy wu on 02 Sep 09
     
    China does not encroach on other countries' airspace, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu Tuesday at a press conference.
  • xinning ji on 08 Sep 09
     
    i am not sure when the relationship between India and CHina becomes bad. I can find online news recently, there are a lot of issues about the war prediction in the future between two nations. I wouldn't believe it can be the truth because if so, I cannot imagine how many innocent people will be dead.Please do not forget, both India and CHina are the first two countries with the largest number of world's population.
xinning ji

China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...cubines-return-t_n_269482.html

shared by xinning ji on 06 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Concubines are no longer kept hidden away behind closed doors. In modern China's far more open society, concubines can be seen in the shopping malls and cafes of the cities, especially in the south, where there are thousands of what are known as "er nai" or "second breast".
  • "China's future will be undermined in those corrupt officials' hands," wrote one outraged citizen. Another described the corrupt cadres who keep concubines as "absolutely superfluous, vampires, corrupt scum. They deserve to be killed".
  • xinning ji on 08 Sep 09
     
    I don't know if concubines should be moral issue or not. in traditional China, man had right to re-marry and lived with more than two wivies. today, even though the law doesn't allow re-marry, many men still can find lover outside without marital relationship.
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