The importance of saving face and not offending government higher-ups.
Last week a drunk and deranged man stabbed two people to death and injured 14 others in Beijing. A few days later, another disturbed man stabbed a foreigner. The police response was not only to arrest both miscreants but also to ban the selling of kitchen knives at large retailers, including Wal-Mart, until after Oct. 1, the National Day holiday. That might seem an ineffective overreaction to tragic but isolated events, but it says a lot about how the government works in China and how businessmen need to navigate it.
Oct. 1 will be the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a day when China's leadership to will celebrate how far the country has advanced. Thousands of performers will perform in a spectacle rivaling the pageantry of the opening of the Beijing Olympics.
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