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China buys up the world
And the world should stay open for business
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IN THEORY, the ownership of a business in a capitalist economy is irrelevant. In practice, it is often controversial. From Japanese firms' wave of purchases in America in the 1980s and Vodafone's takeover of Germany's Mannesmann in 2000 to the more recent antics of private-equity firms, acquisitions have often prompted bouts of national angst.
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