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www.wuhansolo.com — A perspective piece that really is best explained by the title.

chinatrade.foreignpolicyblogs.com — Black helicopters, U.N. conspiracies and shadowy cabals of all-powerful financiers - this is the stuff that fixates in the feverish imagination of a certain segment of the American populace. In one of those wonders of globalization (and ideological indoctrination), those same shadowy cabals do double duty as the object of much Chinese paranoia.

online.wsj.com — Caroline Swartz was hired as a project manager at a Chinese public-relations firm in Beijing in 2006. For the majority of the year she worked there, she was never asked to do anything except sit in meetings, quietly. She would be called in with no knowledge of what the meetings were about or even who the clients were. Afterwards, she would be told to go back to her desk.

www.vancouversun.com — Chinese companies are “feeling pretty sure of themselves right now and don’t believe they need Western partners nearly as much as they did five to 10 years ago. They have their own capital markets, technologies and respected brands,” said Nicholas Sonntag, who oversees Vancouver-based Westport Innovations’ China operation.

www.chinadaily.com.cn — Almost half of new expatriates leave China early because they have difficulty adjusting to the lifestyle. Spouses of executives who have been assigned to China can have the hardest time adjusting. Identity loss and depression are more widespread among expats than many people realize.