1.0 link 144526 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-doctoroff/chinese-consumers-on-rock_b_144526.html This is the first time in history in which a Chinese middle class of broad scale (125-150 million people) has confronted a global economic shock, begging the question of how spending behavior will - or will not - shift across a suddenly-altered economic landscape. Marketers hoping to counteract weakness in North American and European sales by relying on mainland consumers are bound to be disappointed. Newly-prosperous Zhangs and Lius will pull back spending and, in some cases, the impact will...

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