Some of these Stanford Graduate talks are pretty interesting. This ones about how the Chinese financial system works.
The first 1:50 tells you a lot. Need a partner that you can trust, and you have to deal with the government.
Odd how foreign car companies have to partner with a Chinese company, and what happens? Well, in VW's case, they steal engine and tech designs and start making engines and tech on the side, unbeknownst to VW.