You may be right -- I have heard through some informal contacts that the decision to pull out of China was taken at the highest levels, and in secret. Apparent

You may be right -- I have heard through some informal contacts that the decision to pull out of China was taken at the highest levels, and in secret. Apparently this is a deliberate strategy when dealing with totalitarian governments -- even if they have people on the ground, they have to keep them in the dark about big decisions.