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Businesses and insurance商业与保险 How to becomepolitics-proof政治风险，如何能抗 Businesses can get cover against some, but not all,political upheavals 某些政治动乱引起的商业损失能够得到补偿，但非全部 REGIME change has an awkward way of turninguseful political contacts into liabilities. Just askAhmed Ezz, an Egyptian steel magnate and friend ofGamal Mubarak, son of the countrys oustedpresident, when you next visit his jail cell. Butbusinesses face political risk even in the absence ofthe kind of turmoil rocking the Middle East. Governments nationalise assets: in recent years,Congo has taken several mines from their private owners. They change the rulesunexpectedly, making it harder to do business, as Research in Motion, the maker of theBlackBerry, found when some governments demanded access to users messages. They canenforce the law in the most draconian fashion against firms that displease them, as RussiasYukos found. 政权的更迭会让一桩有利的政府合同变成包袱。不信的话，你可以去问问艾哈迈德??伊斯。此人是埃及的钢铁巨头，前总统的儿子贾迈德??穆巴拉赫的朋友。但此时，他正身陷囹圄。但是，即使在那些有别于中东的动荡政局的地方，商业活动同样要面临政治风险。政府不断的对私人资产实行公有化：近年来，刚果政府收购了好几家私人煤矿。 RIM遭遇一些国家的政府希望获得手机用户的信息的情况时就意识到，政府对游戏规则出人意料的改变，使得生意越来越难做。俄罗斯的尤科斯也意识到，政府对于那些惹恼了他们的企业，采取的最严厉的方式，甚至是强制改变国家的法律。 | 
