http://www.forbes.com/sites/ninaxiang/2014/07/08/corporate-espionage-impacts-doing-business-in-china/
By Nina Xiang
Forbes.com
7/08/2014
A sex tape is always intriguing.
In this case, my curiosity was aroused by a secretly-filmed alleged sex
tape of the former China head of British drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
and his girlfriend, which was sent to senior executives at GSK as a teaser
for whistler-blower documents.
So I talked with Steven Feldman, professor of business ethics at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, about it.
He shared with me some anecdotes about hidden surveillance while doing
business in China. For example, he say he knows one major American company
that had an office in Shanghai. The board of directors of the company
wanted to come over to Shanghai to have a board meeting. But the company’s
China head was unable to get the electronic bugs out from his boardroom,
because it’s illegal to own the equipment to search for electronic
eavesdropping in China.
Another company said they had to be very careful when buying new buildings
in China because a lot of the office buildings are filled with electronic
eavesdropping bugs.
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