Commentary
Sometimes Chinese leader Xi Jinping seems determined to cut China off from western involvement and the technologies that have contributed to China’s economic miracle. The list of impediments to this important source of development is long. The latest addition is Beijing’s decision to require foreign firms in China to host communist party cells within their management structures and give those cells power to make business decisions. By adding to the list of burdens imposed on foreign investors Beijing seems to have decided, though no doubt inadvertently, to impose yet another impediment to the country’s economic prospects.
