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Two recent and noteworthy events in the US and China cause one to ponder what the future holds for the variable interest entity (VIE), an ingenious creation which, for the past decade, has been widely used to attract eager foreign capital, because it seems to have overcome certain People's Republic of China (PRC) regulatory hurdles facing foreign investors while cleverly using US and international accounting standards that would inject financial life in to offshore companies even though such offshore companies do not own an equity stake in the Chinese operations
