31.  About ten other Chinese companies are interested.

32.  Alexandra Mackesy of J.P. Morgan Securities Asia in Hong Kong warns investors to be wary of fragile Chinese companies with few assets.

33.  Albright also said the United States is concerned by reports that Chinese companies had transferred material to North Korea that could be used as missile components.

34.  Both Chinese companies denied they were involved in smuggling the fully automatic rifles.

35.  Businesses and investors hope if prices rise slow enough, the government will loosen credit controls that have pushed down profits and share prices of Chinese companies.

36.  But as with all Chinese companies, other considerations come into play.

37.  But buyers of Brilliance China were not actually getting shares in a Chinese company.

38.  But both these Chinese companies, in response to government pressure, have dropped nonfinancial foreign news.

39.  But in China, Intel has to pay tariffs, must sell through a Chinese trading company and has difficulty investing in Chinese companies.

40.  But last month the State Department slapped sanctions on two Chinese companies accused of circumventing the pledge to curb missile exports by transferring missile parts to Pakistan.