From Forbes

Those of us who hark back nostalgically to the glory days of Anglophone financial journalism in the 1960s and 1970s know that little of that tradition survives. For the most part the great newspapers of those days have fallen prey to bureaucracy and cost-cutting. Worse, their editors seem to care more about pandering to the gods of globalism than informing their readers. Hence, far too often, a pattern of hesitancy and misplaced political correctness in covering China.

Occasionally, however, in all the journalistic dross, a true diamond gleams through.

For anyone who wants to read a timeless piece of quality financial journalism, I recommend “The Middle Man,” an article by Tom Burgis in today’s Weekend Magazine of the Financial Times. The eponymous middle man is Sam Pa, a Chinese-born, Hong Kong-based entrepreneur whose rise without trace is a classic enigma of modern China.

Written by Eamonn Fingleton/Read more at Forbes