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Then came the really hard part: negotiating the terms of the joint venture. For a year, Phil Murtaugh, a GM executive vice president, and Hu Maoyuan, his counterpart at Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., negotiated the details of supplier agreements, manufacturing and training protocols and all the other minutiae of setting up a car plant. They talked--and shouted--16 hours a day, seven days a week in a small office on Shanghai's Huashan Street. "I would say, 'I can't live with that, Mr. Hu. I'll get killed,' and he would say, 'My neck is under the blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Drive | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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