Major US companies including Starbucks, Apple and McDonald’s, have come under intense scrutiny from China’s consumer watchdog. It’s not just the Europeans who are feeling targeted by China’s antitrust probes. A new survey by the US-China Business Council shows that foreign business sentiment in China is deteriorating at a rate of knots. The group of 220 leading US companies, which includes blue-chip US firms such as Apple, Ford and Wal-Mart, tends to be conservative when issuing statements on business conditions in China. However, the group’s 2014 member survey shows that 86 per cent of companies expressed concerns, with most citing enforcement as the main worry. Even the famously tactful EU Chamber said last month that Chinese antitrust investigators were picking on foreign companies, pressuring them into accepting punishments and depriving them of full hearings.