There you are Monday morning in the Shanghai office, and a squad of police and lawyers from China’s antitrust regulators burst through the door looking to seize, well, just about everything in the room.

You know, just another day in the life in China.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...