China is moving into the merger-and-acquisition major leagues, as its star corporations shop for American household names like Unocal, Maytag and IBM, looking for bigger profits through global ambitions…… The CNOOC purchase, if it goes through, will be China’s largest overseas acquisition ever.
See also: Now the hard part as CNOOC chases Unocal from The Asia Times.
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