“The Chi­nese gov­ern­ment doesn’t see busi­ness as being sep­a­rate from the state and it has made it clear that if you want to do busi­ness in Chi­na, you’d bet­ter toe the line,” said Steve Vick­ers, chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of polit­i­cal and cor­po­rate risk con­sul­tan­cy Steve Vick­ers & Asso­ciates, and the for­mer head of the Roy­al Hong Kong Police Crim­i­nal Intel­li­gence Bureau.