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Just finished a law review article titled, Business Negotiation Between Westerners and Chinese State-Owned Enterprises1 by Catherine Xiaoying Zhang. Very interesting article that lays out, fairly succinctly, the general state of affairs of negotiations... ...full story at Black China Hand

from Black China Hand on Thu, Apr 16 2009

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