by Greg T. Spielberg Come the first day of school, roughly 600 Oakland County (Mich.) students will be tossing Chinese textbooks into their backpacks on the way to class. Over the past two years, the number of high schools offering Chinese has jumped from four to 23 out of the 28 districts in this Detroit-metro [...]

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A recent interview with Jenny Bai, Founder and CEO of The Red Connect, explored the potential to export China’s brands and pop culture to the Western market. Given recent investment trends, it is apparent that China is preparing to stake its claim in new territories- and the auto industry has perhaps been the most obvious [...]

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