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Are some global companies too reliant on China?
Consumer companies like Apple, BMW, and Starbucks saw profits rise last quarter because of surging sales in China, while industrial companies like Caterpillar and ABB struggled. Slowing Chinese growth could threaten the latter, but not the former as much.
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North Korean attack on South Korea: 8 provocations of the past decade
North Korea shelled South Korea's Yeonpyeong island Tuesday, killing two South Korean marines and injuring more than a dozen people. South Korea returned fire. Both sides claimed that the other fired first. While the South has engaged in past attacks – notably in November 2009, when it fired on a North Korean patrol boat, and in June 1999, when it sunk a North Korean vessel – history shows that Pyongyang is often the instigator. A 2007 report from the US Congressional Research Service documents dozens of provocations, ranging from low-level naval warfare to assassinations of South Korean cabinet officers. Here are seven examples of the North's military provocations over the past decade.
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Yao Ming, others will appear in short film promoting China
Yao Ming, John Woo, and piano prodigy Lang Lang are among dozens of celebrities who will appear in television commercials later this year in a bid by China to boost its image abroad.
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It could be time for China to back down
China may be preparing to battle for economic dominance with the US.
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The Monitor's View: Obama spoke to the Russian people? Nyet.
Like China with Bill Clinton, Moscow limited the television audience for the president's big speech.
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A Comrade Lost and Found
Journalist Jan Wong chases through modern China in pursuit of a comrade whose life she may have ruined in the Maoist era.
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Cloud-sniffing drones soar over Asia
Researchers track China’s plume of pollution. What effect did Olympic hiatus have?
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