I just wrote a new post on my Computerworld blog about difficulties American companies experience in the Chinese market, related to restrictions on their activities or competition from government-sponsored initiatives. You can read the post here.
It kind of ties in with something I was reading in a book last night, Chinese foreign policy: Theory and practice (edited by Thomas W. Robinson and David Shambaugh, 1995.) One of the contributing writers, Bill Kirby (now Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences) touched upon the "myth" of the great Chinese market. I think a lot of American companies are discovering that profits are very elusive in China, but they are afraid to pull out, fearing that they will be left in the dust.
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