【英语中国】分析：中国生意未必难做

Jacob Wallenberg's family controls a big chunk of the Swedish economy and is one of the oldest foreign investors in post-cultural revolution China. So when he intimates that doing business there is not substantially harder than it ever was, it may be time to take the complaints of the US and European Union chambers of commerce in Beijing with a pinch of salt.

Mr Wallenberg, chairman of Investor, the Wallenberg family holding company, told the Financial Times at the Shanghai World Expo it was natural that China's self-esteem (some would say arrogance) had been boosted by its emergence almost unscathed from the global financial crisis and by its growing political influence worldwide.

That means China has become a tough competitor for the west – which has not been used to fighting for its profits in the middle kingdom.

“I hear companies complain about IP [intellectual property] rights and other things, and I am sure there is a foundation for such complaints. But it has to be seen in the overall context,” he says.

That context – though Mr Wallenberg is too polite to say so – is that the west has no choice but to come to China, and little choice but to do so on China's terms. The financial crisis dealt China a strong hand, and that may take some getting used to.

雅各布?瓦伦堡(Jacob Wallenberg)的家族控制着瑞典经济的半壁江山，是文化大革命之后最早进入中国的外国投资者之一。因此，当雅各布暗示，目前在中国做生意并不比以往难很多时，我们或许该对北京美国和欧盟商会发出的抱怨，持几分保留态度了。

身为瓦伦堡家族控股公司银瑞达(Investor)董事长的雅各布，在上海世博会(World Expo)上告诉英国《金融时报》，中国几乎毫发无损地走出全球金融危机，它在世界范围内的政治影响力也与日俱增，这两件事情提升了中国的自尊（也有人认为是自大），这是很自然的事情。

这意味着，中国已成为西方的有力竞争对手。西方还不太习惯为在这个“中央王国”赚取利润而拼搏。

雅各布表示：“我听到有公司抱怨知识产权和其它问题，我相信这些抱怨都有根有据。但是，我们必须在大背景下看待这个问题。”

雅各布出于礼貌而不好把话挑明，但这个“大背景”无疑是：除了打入中国市场，西方别无选择；在打入中国市场之际，除了按中国的规矩行事，西方几乎毫无选择。金融危机给中国带来了强大的影响力，有些人可能需要一段时间来适应这一点。

译者/汪洋