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Originally Posted by BBKing
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.
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'.
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We know the theory, the question was should brown be allowing it in respect of China? At least within the EU we have some modicum of influence and the US has probably owned an increasing amount of UK PLC since the war - blame Hitler for that. Arab states don't appear quite as much a threat to the UK as Russia and China but you never know I suppose. The likes of the KIA have been investing heavily here for decades but is there evidence of anything sinister?