Prove bribe charges wrong

Perhaps because our economy is too large, perhaps because we have too many people that Chinese are omnipresent, well almost. Or else, how could we be dragged into a deal between German automaker Daimler AG and the United States government?

The US administration accuses the automaker of bribing officials in "at least 22 countries" to "secure government contracts". China, too, is on the list of bribe-taking countries.

Some details are startling. The German automaker is said to have paid the alleged bribes - cash, luxury cars, golf club memberships and/or overseas vacations - to officials until January 2008. And they are said to have helped it win huge government contracts in a lot of countries, including China.