Sitting in a small third-floor room in a modern Beijing office block, a 43-year-old Hong Kong-based managing director at a large US investment bank is indulging in idle chit-chat with two colleagues she has been stuck with for the past six hours. Her Blackberry and phone have been taken away and she is not being given much by way of refreshment. She’s bored, hasn’t checked in with the office, is increasingly uneasy, and doesn’t know how much longer she is going to be here.
This is no rogue trader waiting for questioning in prison.
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