Journalists trying to investigate Chinese businesses
A New York Times reporter gives a first-person account of his attempt to investigate a Chinese toy factory that had sold dangerous products. The reporter was detained by the factory’s security, and when the police and even government officials were called, they had no power to make the factory security members release the journalist. Sales to the western market have grown so large that the oppressive China government we always imagined can actually be quite powerless.
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I’ve read this elsewhere.
It seems money talks in China.
Big businesses have much clout in China despite what one thinks of the role of government.
Unlike America? I think not.