ABSTRACT
Imagine this: the year is 2012. Rupert Murdoch’s Eastern News Corporation is convening its annual general meeting in the Beijing Creative Cultural Park in TongzhouDistrict. In Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Cultural and Technological Creative IndustryBase in PudongBillGates announcesMicrosoft’s venturewith theDouble Happiness Software Company to distribute the next Windows operating system. Meanwhile, the former state-ownedXinhuaNewsAgency follows its listing on the stock exchange bymounting a corporate raid on TheNewYorkTimes. InCalifornia, Mayor Tom Cruise greets Chinese investors who promise to provide film industry jobs by offshoring production of a series of kung-fu action epics in Los Angeles. In Malaysia, political leaders urge restrictions on the availability of Chinese video games, which are said to be having detrimental effects on youth.
