Financial times has interesting news-article and throws light on Challenge of doing business in china. It basically talks about abduction of trader Anil Srivastav by Chinese firm in order to settle business issue. This link from shanghai scrap has more background detail on this.
China too is not resilient in this recent economic turmoil and looks like down-turn in world-economy is getting unbearable for them too.
And on the side note we understand why they say international assignment’s are demanding !