More on Senator Clinton's dust-up with Chinese Communist-Capitalism (which is only oxymoronic when viewed from outside.)
In response, Yilin [Chinese publisher] sent an apologetic letter to New York-based Simon & Schuster, but one that blamed the international episode in part on the failure to receive the book promptly from America.
"As you might know, we hadn't received your working copy until June 2 (we were told that the first one was lost on the way) much later than we expected and than the publisher in Taiwan,'" Yilin president Zhang Zude wrote.
Yilin argued the delay forced the company to rush the Chinese version to stores in order to compete with counterfeit versions sold by street peddlers.
So far this embarrassing dispute has not become public here in Beijing.
Do you think Dubya & Company would like to be able to control bad news in the same fashion as it often is here?
