To be sure, most of these countries are not getting much foreign investment now because Western businesses find them unattractive.

The senior police official said militants hope to drive away Western business and indeed any foreign visitors.

Specifically, it urged Western business to provide financial incentives to bring about the introduction of the market economy in the region.

Western businesses have always overestimated the price of defending human rights in China.

Perhaps he feels that killing a journalist will not discourage Western business.

It is not Western business to put out independence movements, or protect each one.

And he says that "a strong central government could be good for Western business."

For a while there was optimism among Western businesses and diplomats.

Add this to the confused political situation, and many Western businesses still keep their distance.

- But Western business and governments act as if it were the other way around.