In response to the comment above, one of my colleagues provided me with this link to a New York Times article from October about an American businessman caught up in the Chinese legal system.
I'd also note that the execution of the Chinese bankers I alluded to earlier was reportedly part of an effort to "clean up" the country's banking system in an effort to attract foreign investors. But who is to say bank fraud would no longer be considered a capital crime once Western CFOs came in? Given the many, many loose ends that still surely exist in the banking system, would it be worth the risk to an American finance executive? And, for that matter, would a Westerner truly feel better if things went awry and the Chinese government deported or jailed Westerners and shot their Chinese counterparts? Talk about tension in the executive suite over accounting disagreements.
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