The U.S. source of record for China business, trade, and investment. The review details market strategies, competitor intelligence, legal developments, and WTO policy changes. It provides numbers, analysis, guidance, and in-depth analysis for multinational companies.
A clearer system emerges but a single, integrated M&A legal regime remains elusiveThe PRC government has been trying over the last year to create a clearer roadmap for foreign mergers and acquisitions (M&A) players looking at Chinese target companies...
The Smithsonian's 2002 Silk Road folklife festival provided a cultural bridge between East and WestImagine walking among Uzbek weavers, Kazakh nomads, and Chinese storytellers; watching martial artists and hearing the unique sounds of singers and musicians...
Newbridge notwithstanding, passive stakes can be a growth activitySeveral formal announcements and rumors over the last year indicate that foreign investors-both industry players and financial and private equity investors-are taking an increasingly serious...
New provisions establish the people's right to know(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)China's initial reticence in sharing information about the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic highlighted anew...
Hard Sleeper by Jennifer Scheel Bushman and Jean Artley Szymanski. Fort Bragg, CA: Lost Coast Press, 2003. 253 pp. $24.95 hardcover.Hard Sleeper, so named because the story is partially set in a Chinese hard-sleeper train car, is a gripping novel that...
A global engineering and manufacturing company sets out to clean and move China's waterGlobal engineering and manufacturing company ITT Industries, Inc., produces electronic interconnects, switches, and pump equipment and systems for moving fresh water...
THE US-CHINA BUSINESS COUNCILThe SARS virus declines; the visa mess continues.Before atypical pneumonia, before the Metropole hotel super-spreader, before the World Health Organization (WHO) advisories on travel to China, there was the visa mystery.Long...
Companies can use this powerful tool in acquisition due diligence in China(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)Much has been written about the Chinese practice of guanxi, or relationships. The term conjures up shady...
Research on China's Lost Tax Revenue by Jia Shaohua. Beijing: Finance and Economics Publishing House of China, 2002. 477pp. Y32 ($3.87) softcover.Recent studies by Chinese researchers have attempted to determine the amount of money lost to China's economy...
US companies contribute to improving social welfare-profitably-in ChinaMost major multinational corporations with substantial investments in China have moved beyond the purely commercial realm to engage in projects that help the local communities in...
Social Connections in China: Institutions, culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi edited by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 272 pp. $60 hardcover, $22 softcover.Connections are universally useful...
Companies should act now to protect workers, corporations, and profitsThe outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has exposed the immense challenges that face China's overburdened and underfunded healthcare system. But SARS is only one of...
A recent OECD report suggests ways China can improve its environment for foreign direct investmentChina has been highly successful in attracting and absorbing large quantities of foreign direct investment (FDI) as a result of policies developed over...
China's new venture capital regulations provide limited improvements for investorsAs year two of China's World Trade Organization (WTO) membership rolls on, China continues to open its financial services sector to foreign investors. On January 30, 2003...