I remember about ten years ago, my parents were considering doing business through their company with a chinese o&g company.
I remember pops coming home one day and laughing, because one of the things that came up in the negotiations was the chinese company wanting to "place" one of their employees in the company with access to proprietary information and software. Needless to say the negotiations pretty much ended right there.
It really isn't surprising that politicians might be influenced by some under the table propositions. Now all we need to do is get the American government to start monitoring the lobbying groups of the HMO's and Pharmaceutical companies to see if there are any "influences."
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