China Lessons: Getting Started in Business
Throughout 2007 and 2008, I served as Counsel for Asia for a US public company. During that period, we negotiated contracts with both private and government joint venture partners, as…
The China Standards Engine
China’s accomplishments in economic modernization, urbanization, industrialization, and science and technology are legion. The question to which China watchers, as well as the Chinese state, have now turned is how…
The New China Anti-Monopoly Law
Introduction After decades of debate, China enacted its long-awaited Anti-Monopoly Law on August 30, 2007, the first comprehensive antitrust law in history of the People’s Republic. The law was the…
China’s Response to U.S. Pressure to Revalue the RMB
Introduction As the U.S. presidential election draws nearer and the People’s Republic of China also faces a year of leadership change, the issue of Chinese currency revaluation has garnered an…
U.S.-Taiwan-European Conference “Taiwan’s Democracy and Future: Economic and Political Challenges”
Taiwan’s democratization process and its implications on economic, political and social fronts are of great importance to understanding the key to Taiwan’s future and a resolution of the Cross-Straits crisis.…
China’s War on Air Pollution
Introduction In 2008 and 2009 if I asked a Beijing taxi driver or anyone on the street about air quality on a hazy day, I was normally told that it…
U.S. – China Differences and Their Effects on Business Behaviors
China may be the second largest trading partner of the U.S.,[1. http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/top/dst/2007/09/balance.html.] but the road to this increasingly close relationship has not been smooth. There have been a lot more…
The Road Ahead: A Preliminary Assessment of the 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Enough time has passed since the 17th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in March, 2007, to begin the assessment of a political event that the Chinese…
The CRC Launches Enhanced Publication, China Currents
This issue of the China Research Center publication launches our new publication name and look. China Currents will publish more articles based on scholarly research, but in an easy to…
Where Is Political Reform in Xi Jinping’s Reform Scheme?
In November 1978, Deng Xiaoping presided over the Third Plenum of the Eleventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which launched China’s reform and opening up. Thirty five…