The China Factor

There’s a tired cliché—often heard at business and motivational
seminars—that the Chinese word for "crisis" derives from the language’s symbols for
"danger" and "opportunity." While linguists dismiss this as technically incorrect,
rightly or wrongly, the cliché also sums up a question many in our industry are currently asking:
Does China’s emergence on the world market spell the end of business as we know it, or an unprecedented
opportunity?