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on July 30, 2013

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Is Business in China Getting Riskier, Or Are Multinationals Taking More Risks?

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Arthur R. Kroeber, David Schlesinger & more on July 30, 2013

Arthur Kroeber:

The environment for foreign companies in China has been getting steadily tougher since 2006, when the nation came to the end of a five-year schedule of market-opening measures it pledged as the price of admission to the World Trade Organization. Soon after the WTO-mandated reforms concluded, foreign firms began to complain of an increase in discriminatory practices, more difficulty in getting licences and approvals, and a generally less friendly attitude from  officialdom.

Why a Reporter Feels Sympathy for an Airport Bomber

Siding With a Man Who Commits a Terrifying Act is Normal When You Hear So Many Stories of People So Wronged They Lack the Will to Live

on July 29, 2013

These past few years as a reporter, I have met some people with nothing left to live for and now another person can be added to the list. Ji Zhongxing, the disabled man who set off a bomb in a Beijing airport on July 20, is that person.

Ji and I are the same age. We were both born in 1979. Last night, when I read his story, I was grabbed by a strange feeling.