China special: FDI and saving face

09.08.2006
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."

-- Deng Xiao Ping

Several years ago, I worked for the Asian branch of a US-based news

provider. During this rosy period, this company was buoyed exuberant by

what's now known as the Internet Bubble. Our fledgling Hong Kong bureau

was tasked with collating Asian tech news and pasting it online each