[bernie_g]

For what it's worth, the UK news sources are currently reporting this tragedy as a direct attack on UK interests, presumably timed to coincide with Mr Bush's visit here.

The targets being the British Consulate and a more-or-less British bank (The old Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank merged with the UK bank Midland a few years back to form HSBC.)

[Guillermo]

Let me be the first to say, this is all Bush's fault.

[scotsman1]

Actually,the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank was founded by a Scotsman,Thomas Sutherland,so it is not a Chinese-founded bank and I doubt that the people's republic actually has any legal control.