Frozen contracts

In 1993, China froze some 2 billion francs of telecommunications contracts in retaliation for France's sale of state-of-the-art planes to Taiwan.

1. Economic cross-retaliation
2. Breach of contract

1. Exploitative use of consultants

1. Unsatisfactory client/consultant relationship
2. Unjust allocation of government contracts
3. Inadequacies of foreign consultants

1. Frozen assets

1. Suspension