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China Banking: I Have Two Words For You.

A year or so ago, I was talking with a good friend of mine who has a fairly high level position with one of the big American banks that has spent huge money buying into Chinese banks. I was saying I could not understand why American banks were so... ...full story at China Law Blog

from China Law Blog on Tue, Jul 01 2008

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