January 19, 2010

The High Cost of Doing Business in China

Der Spiegel, Der Spiegel

AP Photo

Anyone who clicked on the Chinese Google site last Thursday was greeted with an unusual logo. The six Google letters were decorated with the symbols of "China's four great inventions," namely paper, gunpowder, the compass and printing.


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