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Perhaps that might change if the next big acquirer is a state-backed Chinese firm, rather than a paternalistic Indian conglomerate.

Security experts widely believe that the worm was built as part of a state-backed attack on Iran's nuclear program.

The company is investing Rmb1bn for a 5 per cent stake in a state-backed project to build China's first large commercial jet.

S. government loan. Funding, an issue for many potential AIA bidders, surely wouldn't have been a problem for state-backed China Life.

But he stood by his calls for a state-backed "reprivatisation" drive.

Only one of the seven, Baidu, was not a state-backed corporation.

China's international broadcasters have programming in more tongues than any other state-backed rival.

Raising funds in yuan means being able to tap wealthy Chinese investors and state-backed institutions like China's national pension fund.

China's agile, state-backed policies have pushed Beijing's trade with Africa to $107 billion a year.

A debt standstill by Dubai World, a state-backed property venture in the Middle East, made bond investors more nervous about sovereign risk.

Environmental activists, however, say many Chinese state-backed projects lack transparent environmental and financial information.

But speculation now centres on a Chinese state-backed entity partnering with a Canadian company.

The announcement of his candidacy on Tuesday drew scant attention from the state-backed media.

China fell out with Rio after it rejected a big investment by China's state-backed aluminium firm.

They prefer to enhance the clout and economic reach of state-backed companies at the top of the pecking order.

It pinpointed the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland as having the biggest potential problem, as it helped arrange $2. 3bn of those loans.

Mr Posen advocates a state-backed small-business bank that would help fill an investment shortfall he puts at some £ 30 billion.

Chinese spectators chat in front of a giant poster for China's homegrown, state-backed biopic "Confucius" at a theater in Beijing.

The government has recently ramped up efforts to tighten regulations and root out food safety violators in a state-backed media campaign.

The state-backed recapitalisation of banks on both sides of the Atlantic has staved off a systemic collapse of confidence.

Recipients can expect heavily-subsidised rents, tax holidays, interest-free loans, and bonuses on sales to state-backed distributors.

These governments also use state-backed commentators to control online discourse and threaten political opponents.

Its well-established Arabic service dominates the Middle East, easily fending off competition from state-backed Western rivals.

Students and their families are becoming ever more reliant on loans, both commercial and state-backed, and default rates are climbing.

Yet several state-backed firms are currently without permanent chiefs, and many private ones have veteran bosses who may soon retire.

Aside from large state-backed concerns, entrepreneurial companies are also looking overseas.

Some 40% of entrepreneurs are members of the Communist Party. State-backed businesses receive a disproportionate share of capital.

The state-backed recapitalizations, bankers say, have helped create a vicious circle for banks, as well as some confusion.

Think of all those robotic East German sprinters , Romanian gymnasts and Chinese swimmers churned out by state-backed programmes.

China's private and state-backed institutions are allocating larger amounts to the sector, albeit from a low base.

Canberra's framework on how it treats foreign investors, particularly state-backed entities, is evolving.

Next come the joint ventures between private (often foreign) companies and Chinese state-backed entities.

Japan's government, central bank and state-backed lenders are buying corporate debt and equity stakes.

Micro-loans and trade links can help entrepreneurs compete with state-backed monopolists.

State-backed recapitalisation in the US and Europe has already in effect nationalised some banks.

Wall Street, the flagship of capitalism, has been bailed out by state-backed investors from emerging economies.

State-backed firms accounted for a third of the emerging world's foreign direct investment in 2003-10.

The municipality's growth also owes a lot to a steady feed of state-backed investment.

Before the rise of state-backed companies, businesses had imposed unlimited liability on their investors.

Two of the biggest shipping banks (RBS and HBOS) are in state-backed rehab.

Certainly, this was the case last year, when Avatar was pulled to make way for the state-backed biopic Confucius, starring Chow Yun-Fat.

State-backed firms, similar to China's, make 40% of stockmarket profits and dominate energy and finance.

Chinese state-backed firms are also investing abroad.

Some, such as AP (a co-operative owned by its subscribers) and the state-backed French News Agency (AFP), have stuck to that model.

Under pressure from Beijing to reduce Wuhan's debt, they have promised to pay back $2. 3 billion to state-backed creditors this year.

In addition, Chinese state-backed companies have more access to cash than their rivals in other countries.

The Japanese and American nuclear firms, for their part, say they cannot compete with state-backed bids.

China's state-backed system also has disadvantages.

Alrosa, Russia's state-backed diamond miner, now rivals it.

This is where a wave of state-backed investment in natural resources presents new options for leaders in the developing world.

As Xiao says, lending to SMEs is more risky than lending to state-backed entities.

But analysts also suggest a potential role for state-backed oil companies such as China's PetroChina or Kuwait Oil.

State-backed oil companies, such as PetroChina and Russia's Rosneft, have bought nearly the same amount.

The second problem is that big state-backed enterprises crowd out small entrepreneurial ones.

The more prosaic truth, it says, is that it is supporting a new state-backed tourism firm.

India has its own form of state-backed capitalism too