[GOP_1900AD]

By these criteria, we should not be investing in the PRC either. Too bad most who run corporations these days (mostly former hippies, or other products of the 1960s) are more concerned about making their corporations' images PC and "global" even to the detriment of risk mitigation. I once wrote a similar checklist / audit used by large multinationals to scope out their risks in the PRC, Pakistan, multiple others. They all failed the audits, and yet, still do business in slim hopes of cracking markets / gaining supply bases that will never pan out. What fools...

[aculeus]

They all failed the audits, and yet, still do business in slim hopes of cracking markets / gaining supply bases that will never pan out.

I guess WalMart didn't get the word -- that China is not a dependable supply base.