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Giving a press conference in China

If you can't be bothered to wade through all this, perhaps you would be interested to know the first question I was asked here.

Had a most alarming morning yesterday in Shanghai meeting, as I thought, the team behind a vast new vineyard investment in the far west of China, company by the happy-go-lucky name of Suntime, to which I am on my way as I write this. I had assumed the meeting would take place in their offices but in fact I was whisked to a VIP room (sic – the People's Republic of China is awash with...