Businessmen around the world continue to be fascinated with the prospect of making a fortune doing business with China.
The May 27 U.S. House of Representatives endorsement of the China trade bill, to be followed by passage of the U.S. Senate version, will perpetuate the imagined potential of selling to "1 billion Chinese."
"Imagined" and "potential" are the operative words, since very few foreigners have made old-fashioned "profits" in China.