{"id":12925,"date":"2007-05-29T08:56:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/29\/in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T15:56:48","slug":"in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"In China, a Stake in Blackstone Stirs Uncertainty &#8211; Keith Bradsher and Joseph Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe New York Times reports on the reaction within China to the government <a href=\"\/2007\/05\/the_worlds_most_expensive_club_the_economist.php\" target=\"_blank\">proposed purchase<\/a> of a $3 billion stake in the American private equity firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackstone<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Chinese government is acquiring nearly 10 percent of an influential investment company without a repeat of <a href=\"\/2005\/08\/chinese_company.php\" target=\"_blank\">the fights that surrounded a bid<\/a> two years ago by a state-owned oil company, Cnooc, for an American rival, Unocal, or last year&#8217;s effort by DP World of Dubai to assume management of American port terminals.<\/p>\n<p>While Blackstone is well known in global finance, it is not a household name in the United States and the sale of the stake has attracted little attention in Congress. But in China, opinion remains divided between those who see the deal as a way to buy a big stake in an important company and those who worry that the government is leaping into deals without a clear investment strategy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/29\/business\/worldbusiness\/29blackstone.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on the reaction within China to the government proposed purchase of a $3 billion stake in the American private equity firm Blackstone: The Chinese government is acquiring nearly 10 percent of an influential investment company without a repeat of the fights that surrounded a bid two years ago by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2],"tags":[4915],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-economy","tag-blackstone","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In China, a Stake in Blackstone Stirs Uncertainty - Keith Bradsher and Joseph Kahn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In China, a Stake in Blackstone Stirs Uncertainty - Keith Bradsher and Joseph Kahn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New York Times reports on the reaction within China to the government proposed purchase of a $3 billion stake in the American private equity firm Blackstone: The Chinese government is acquiring nearly 10 percent of an influential investment company without a repeat of the fights that surrounded a bid two years ago by a [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-05-29T15:56:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/in-china-a-stake-in-blackstone-stirs-uncertainty-keith-bradsher-and-joseph-kahn\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"In China, a Stake in Blackstone Stirs Uncertainty &#8211; 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