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Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by sad_hacker on Friday January 14, 2011 @11:47AM (#2104162)
Indeed, more like a well-runned corporation with 1.3 billion workers.
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by poutine on Friday January 14, 2011 @02:33PM (#2105066)
Well run? You've obviously never been to China.
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by brianobush on Friday January 14, 2011 @02:58PM (#2105172)
Why would you need to visit China to have an opinion that could be arrived at by looking at financials - a common practice in measuring success. Just look at a portfolio of large Chinese companies - they are doing well, thus I would also hypothesize that they are well-run companies.
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by garply on Friday January 14, 2011 @03:27PM (#2105289)
The numerical data to which you have access is not necessarily accurate. Corruption, bribery, fabricated numerical data are par for the course here.

He was talking about China as a country and as an economy. If you come and visit, it is immediately obvious that there are problems.

Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by pyrhho on Friday January 14, 2011 @06:07PM (#2105794)
Just because there are problems does not necessarily mean that (as a whole) it is being run poorly.
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by mturmon on Saturday January 15, 2011 @04:26PM (#2107865)
Chinese firms are riding a huge wave of growth driven by wage differentials. In this macro context, it's easy to make a lot of money with poor management.
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by ericd on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:12PM (#2105944)
*trillion
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by uxp on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:55PM (#2106074)
You might want to look that statistic up before you try and correct someone again.
Re:Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account by ericd on Saturday January 15, 2011 @02:19AM (#2106635)
Oops, I misread that as cash on hand, but looking at it again, I don't know how I could have mistaken it. Definitely not 1.3 trillion people...