News / Staff arrests increase company concerns over doing business in China

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International companies should be increasingly wary of the current atmosphere in China, after it changed its counter-espionage laws last year.

Arrests of workers at foreign firms in China are on the rise, adding to increasing concerns of western executives about continuing to run operations in the country.

In mid-February, The Guardian reported that China had arrested one of its citizens, Emily Chen, on spying charges after she spent four months in Nanjing last year helping a US logistics operator open an office ...