A side note from the China story we filed.
A source did not expect China to hire any of these firms, referring to it as a “Western bake-off” for ideas to discuss internally.
“Everything I’ve heard [is that China is] gathering information from a variety of PR agencies, taking it internally, and debating [whether the advice is] a wise course of action,” he said. “It’s way too late in the game to put an agency in place.”