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--in China!:    "What is striking is not that this kind of thing
happens, but that it happens in a place like China, which is
still nominally a socialist country."  Anyone with a freshman
knowledge of communist countries, say SU, would not be surprised
at all by this story.  A manager of an important interprise is a
powerful man in his locality. If interprise is important enough,
he even may outrank a local party boss.  Gonzalo Salinas
"Factory bosses, I would discover, can overrule the police, and
Chinese government officials are not as powerful as you might
suspect in a country addicted to foreign investment." Such has
endlessly been the case in our Latin American "banana" republics
and this has been at the center of our discontent with
globalization in the 20th century and even now. We experimented
for decades enlargi