Officials from Norway’s public roads administration (Statens vegvesen) visited China last month and met with the top management of Sichuan Road and Bridge (四川路桥), one of the partners that last year won a tender to build the steelwork for the Hålogaland bridge in northern Norway. (The others are a little-known Serbian company, called VNG and recently hailed for its Nordic triumph by the local media, and DSD, a German bridge-builder whose involvement has been largely ignored by media accounts of the deal.)