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Donald duckedIt seems you can't go anywhere in the financial world nowadays without coming across people who are trying to do some kind of deal in China. Rather like Russia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, China seems to offer the perfect formula for the opportunistic Western capitalist: an economy moving away from central control, a whole load of industrial production available for knockdown prices, a cheap workforce sufficiently disenfranchised that they can't really protect themselves and a whole load of greed. You might say that I am being overly cynical here, and maybe the apparent celebration of Russian oligarchs in the British press does rather stick in my craw, but I am convinced I am not the only one who holds a secret...