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October 28, 2012

China's State Companies Aren't Villains

Andrew Coyne, National Post

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The casual reader would be convinced the $15.2-billion bid from China’s CNOOC for Canada’s Nexen, far from enriching Nexen’s shareholders and indirectly other Canadians, posed some dire threat to the country, if not the planet: part of some fiendish Chinese plan for world domination, possibly involving lasers.

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