Each hoping to win, and earn a lucrative contract with an Italian fashion house, earlier this month five aspiring Chinese models pranced along a catwalk in the ballroom of the casino in Campi-one d'Italia, a tiny Italian enclave in Switzerland. Around 500 Chinese residents in Italy were guests at the spectacle-broadcast on Chinese television-in Europe's largest casino, a hulking yellow building looming over Lake Lugano. In the gambling business it is generally a safe bet that "the house always wins".
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