Before the long weekend holiday in Hong Kong and China last week, Minneapolis-based Medtronic agreed to pay $816 million for China’s KangHui Medical, which makes implants to treat orthopaedic conditions. It is a bid to win a piece of the pie in China’s healthcare market.
But also on Friday, US President Barack Obama cited national security risks when he called for China’s Ralls Corp to divest its interest in the wind farms it bought earlier this year in northern Oregon, close to a Navy base where the US military flies unmanned drones and electronic-warfare planes on training missions.
It was the first time in 22 years...
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