Here's something to think about:
In China, there tends to be a strong relationship between private enterprise and the communist party government, no matter how much the two try to distance themselves from each other. It is hard for companies, and people in other parts of the world who have not worked with China to understand just how intertwined business and politics is in China, much more so than in most other countries.
Captain Bill
IMHO, that symbiotic relationship exists in almost every country in the world, regardless of the country's political system. Democracies, republics, authoritarian/communist/socialist states.....they all have the same basic relationship with private enterprises, the degree of the relationship varying with the political party in power.