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I'd like to follow this up with the information that Hu has now been formally charged:

http://www.businessday.com.au/business/rio-spy-case-stern-hu...

As expected, the charges are commercial bribery and obtaining "commercial secrets of China's steel and iron industry through improper means" in violation of "the country's Criminal Law".

I am not trying to whitewash China here, but I doubt this case is all that unreasonable, and I for one am hardly less confident about business dealings in China because of it.