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"It should improve legal protection for foreign companies and reject anticompetitive trading practices and policies," they said.

他们说："中国应该为外国公司提高立法保护，并抵制反竞争贸易活动和政策。"

After hastily, and quietly, demanding that all PC makers install Web filtering software, an outcry among foreign companies and Chinese Internet users moved authorities to backpedal on the requirement, with a senior official acknowledging that the regulation 'wasn't fully considered, and not expressed clearly, and gave everyone the impression that this is mandatory.

在迅速而悄然地要求所有个人电脑生产商安装这款网络过滤软件之后，由于外国公司和中国互联网用户的呼吁，有关部门对这一要求做出了让步。一位高官承认，这个要求"考虑不周，它没有表述清楚，给大家的印象好像是强制性的"。

While the Rio Tinto employees still face lesser charges of bribery and theft of trade secrets, the espionage threats stirred broad unease among foreign companies operating in China, which feared that they could face persecution and closed-door trials for engaging in what much of the world would regard as bare-knuckle business tactics.

尽管力拓的几个雇员依旧会面临贿赂和盗窃商业机密的较轻指控，然而这种间谍案件所带来的威胁性却让在中国运营的外国公司坐立不安。他们担心，由于采取某些在大部分国家看来是毫不留情的商业策略会让自己受到迫害或者是非公开的审讯。

Foreign companies complain they will have to operate "bifurcated product lines" for different markets which benefit local rivals.

外国公司抱怨，它们必须针对不同市场提供不同的产品系列，这种局面有利于本土竞争对手。

One of the main difficulties for foreign companies in China is the blurred line between public and private sectors.

在华外国公司面临的主要难题之一是公共行业和私营行业界限模糊。

But there is still money to be made, especially by the foreign firms that have provided the technology to allow China's trains to overtake Japan's bullet trains and France's TGV.

但是这里仍有外国公司牟取利润的空间，特别是那些能提供技术支持让中国铁路超越日本的子弹头和法国高速列车的企业。

Thanks to recession at home, foreign firms are keener than ever to capitalise on China's growth.

多亏了这次经济危机，外国公司比以往任何时候更关注中国资本市场的增长。

Earnings of the U.S. branch of a foreign corporation would also be subject to U.S. taxation at the applicable corporate rate, internal distributions of the after tax profits would not constitute dividends subject to the second layer of tax.

虽然外国公司的美国分支机构也根据相应的公司税率缴纳美国税收，但税后所得的内部分配不构成需缴纳第二层次税收的股息。

Exporting to the US demands knowledge of complex and often changing tariff and duty regulations, but it is still a viable alternative to direct investment.

这些税率不仅适用于美国公司来自全球的收入，而且适用于外国公司取得的与美国经营业务有&实际联系&的收入。

Secondary offerings by companies have been delayed, as have the listings of foreign companies on the Shanghai bourse.

上市公司证券的二次发行已被延后，这项政策同样适用于在上证所上市的外国公司。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。