Summit Notebook
Exclusive outtakes from industry leaders
from Changing China:
Look in the mirror
The U.S. rejection of the $18.5 billion bid by China's top offshore oil company, CNOOC Ltd, for Unocal in 2005 was not a move worthy of a world power such as the United States, asserts a Chinese academic with the government's top economic planning agency.
"If you are weak, then I can understand," said Chen Dongqi, deputy director of the Academy of
Macro-Economic Research under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
"The United States is a strong country. What is it afraid of?" he said at the Reuters China Investment Summit.
"There is a problem there." 
Chen was responding to a question about rising protectionism in China, and criticism that Beijing had blocked Coca-Cola Co from buying China's Huiyuan Juice.
