It was opened about 110 years ago by Greek residents, before Egyptians reacted to decades of subjugation by foreign powers by forcing foreigners to leave and nationalizing private property.
Now, the competitive pressures of the fund-management industry are forcing foreigners to buy (see chart).
In fact, they say, it is tacitly supported by Beijing, and includes forcing foreigners to disclose their technology in order to gain contracts.
In life insurance, China forces foreigners (with the exception of AIG, hence the spat) to form joint ventures with local companies.
Sidney Jones, the Asia director for Human Rights Watch, who has spent several months in East Timor, said the militias might be trying, as they did last year, to force foreigners out so they could act with impunity.
Even the British are protectionist about fish, forcing foreigners who want to buy their quotas to maintain a lifetime "economic link" with Britain by hiring British crews, or landing fish in British ports.Politicians' heads tell them that fishing accounts for less than 1% of the EU's economy.
The killers used the same Ceska 83 pistol with a silencer for all 10 of the murders they committed, according to prosecutors, because they wanted to terrify the immigrant communities they were targeting, hoping that a growing sense of insecurity would force foreigners to flee the country.
They mention a desire for tighter immigration controls, for keeping war refugees in their homelands, for forcing foreigners in Germany to speak German at home (also a proposal made recently by the CSU, the sister party of the president, Angela Merkel) and for the swifter deportation of criminal asylum seekers (such as Bachmann, presumably).
The soldiers then forced the foreigners to stand in a semi-circle, said Gian Libot, a Philippines citizen.
