On a recent trip to London, I was shocked at how much evidence of corporate China was all around me. As I rode in a black cab, I remembered that Geely, a Chinese firm that acquired Volvo in 2010, had bought iconic British cab producer Manganese Bronze in 2013. Arriving at Heathrow, I recalled that China’s sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, owns 10% of the firm that operates the international airport. In line at the gate, I stared at a giant display for a laptop by Lenovo, the Chinese firm that made headlines in 2005 for acquiring IBM’s ThinkPad brand.
最近在訪問倫敦時，我對身邊有這么多中國企業的影子感到震驚。當我乘坐黑色出租車時，我想起中國企業吉利(Geely)在2013年收購了標志性的英國出租車制造商錳銅控股公司(Manganese Bronze)——吉利還在2010年收購了沃爾沃(Volvo)。當我到達希思羅機場(Heathrow)時，我想起中國主權財富基金中投公司(CIC)持有該機場運營商10%的股權。在登機口排隊時，我看到一塊巨型顯示屏上播放著中國企業聯想(Lenovo)筆記本電腦的廣告——2005年聯想因收購IBM旗下ThinkPad品牌而成為新聞頭條。