In the aftermath of the referendum defeat, the French establishment talked itself into a state of advanced paranoia because of rumours of a bid for Danone, a French food firm, by PepsiCo, an American one.
In China, WFOEs were originally conceived to facilitate the establishment of manufacturing activities that either exported products or introduced advanced technology.
For many years the educational establishment has used metrics like money spent per student or the number of teachers with advanced degrees to evaluate our K-12 schools.