Hearts lurched into throats. Your correspondent's driver braked hard. But it was too late. After the crash, the motorcyclist, who was miraculously unhurt, picked himself up and argued vigorously that it was not his fault. After all, who doesn't whizz round blind corners on the wrong side of the road from time to time? The Chinese attitude to safety often causes sharp intakes of expatriate breath. "It's a real problem," says the manager of a Western chemicals firm in Shanghai. "You set strict rules for what goes on in the factory. But as soon as your employees step outside the gates, they face a completely different atmosphere. Ask someone to wear a seat belt and they laugh at you."
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