Apparently foreign journalists will be allowed to travel and report freely from China during the Games. Local journalists will be allowed to travel and report freely from inside about a 12 foot square space, if they don't toe the line.
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is allowing them (or indeed the likes of Russia) to buy chunks of our strategic industries a good thing?
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As opposed to the Germans, French, US, Arabs? We've been flogging the family silver for so long there's only a teaspoon left anyway. The theory is that opening the market brings in more investment, the reality is 'yes, we'll come in if you let us treat the workforce like poo' to which the answer is usually 'OK, Sir'.