Indeed, none touched on the fateof Mr. Hu, on [gm99nd] Inc. 's decisionsinChina, on import-substitutionpoliciesoronsurveysthat have shown a bleak attitude toward doing business in China.
That is partly the healthy consequence of liberal economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s: the previous policies of state-led import-substitution tended to concentrate economic activity close to the centres of political power.