China's a Question Mark + France Exports Nuclear Experts

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(1) Joseph Sternberg, China's Year of the Question Mark: A year ago many investors assumed it would carry the world on its shoulders. Now the talk is whether its landing will be hard or soft. Wall Street Journal, Dec 29, 2011 (op-ed) .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... ?mod=googlenews_wsj

My comment: This essay raised three questions. Please read question 2 ("How 'real' are Chinese companies?") and the discussion following it--a novel interpretation to a well known phenomenon: Chinese shell companies abroad.

(2) Max Colchester, French Train China Nuclear Experts. Wall Street Journal, Dec 29, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 46000531213914.html
(Franco-Chinese Institute for Nuclear Energy in southern China's Guangdong province)

Quote: "For France, which is financing about half the cost of the recently opened university, the bet is a bold one: that these Chinese students will go on to become top nuclear officials who will practice high safety standards and hand lucrative contracts to French nuclear companies.