The New York Times
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: May 16, 2010

HONG KONG — Foreign companies doing business in China are increasingly feeling as if the deck is stacked against them.
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Workers pour liquid into sealed drums at a yellow phosphorus factory in Yunnan Province, China.

China has filed more than a dozen trade cases to limit imports, imposed a series of “buy Chinese” measures and limited exports of some minerals to force multinationals to move factories to China.

Foreign executives in China find themselves increasingly at odds with Chinese officials over these measures, which Westerners view as protectionist and intended to give an edge to Chinese companies. Surveys by Western chambers of commerce of executives show growing disenchantment in the last year and a sense that doing business in China, never easy, is growing harder.     more …