There is no oil disaster to speak of in the body of water separating the U.K. and northern and central Europe, but BP 's outgoing chief executive Tony Hayward will nevertheless come under extra pressure from lawmaker Wednesday following a report that the oil giant had not been in full compliance with safety regulations for its North Sea operations.
Barely nine months after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, I sat at a U.S.-China Business Council luncheon in Beijing featuring U.K. journalist Joe Studwell speak on his book The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth.