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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Jim Cramer fills his blog on RealMoney every day with his up-to-the-minute reactions to what's happening in the market and his legendary ahead-of-the-crowd ideas. This week he blogged on:

• how to invest in China right now; and
• why bearish thinking on retailers isn't paying off.

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For China Exposure, Play the Field

Posted at 3:36 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 2

You believe in China? You believe in the FXI then. We've been buying the iShares FTSE China 25 Index ETF (FXI) for the Action Alerts PLUS charitable trust, even though it does have a lot of financials, because we want to play what could be a gigantic turn in China, and we don't want to have to bet on the wrong Chinese horse and get skunked by it.

I can't overestimate the importance of that Chinese PMI number we got last night, especially given that it was very unexpected by most of the cognoscenti. We have a combination of the new leadership coming in with the first upside surprise of data, and it's so potent and palpable that it's not enough to go with the usual derivatives, like Emerson Electric (EMR) , Caterpillar (CAT) , Vale (VALE) and Eaton (ETN) , even as the trust owns those, too.

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We all know the U.S. is holding in because of the consumer. We all know Europe is going away, because of the governmental paralysis. China had been the wild card. Just two months ago, I remarked on "Squawk on the Street" that I wondered who those economists were who kept predicting better things for China, because each data point was worse than the previous one.