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    Evaluating a Potential US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty: Background, Context and Implications

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    [Excerpt] This paper, prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the US-China Economic and Security Council, summarises the context, current discussions and implications of a potential US-China bilateral investment treaty (BIT). The paper is organised in six sections: I. Existing US BITs II. China’s current BITs with other countries III. The potential US-China BIT IV. Major regulatory and transparency issues V. Implications for the US economy VI. Interviews Simply defined, a BIT is a treaty between two countries designed to promote and protect investments between the two signatory states. A BIT provides investors with a safer and more transparent investment environment by guarding against the risk of expropriation by the host state. Many countries, especially the larger economies, sign BITs with their main trading partners, both to ensure that companies from their country receive proper protection when they make investments abroad and to ensure that their rights can be protected and enforced through binding international arbitration

    China\u27s Industrial Policy and its Impact on U.S. Companies, Workers and the American Economy

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    [Excerpt] China’s industrial policies have had a profound effect on the U.S. economy. The trade deficit with China in goods reached 266billionin2008,resultinginslowerU.S.economicgrowthandfewerjobsherethanifthetraderelationshipweremorebalancedbetweenimportsandexports.WitnessesdifferedastothedegreethattheoverallU.S.tradedeficitwoulddeclineifthetradingrelationshipbetweenthetwocountrieswerebroughtintobalance.ButitissignificantthattheU.S.deficitwithChinarepresented33percentofthetotalU.S.tradedeficitwiththeworldand42.6percentofthedeficitwithnonoilexportingcountries.Inaddition,itisnotjustthesizeofthedeficitthatpolicymakersshouldexamine,butthechangingnatureofitscomposition.TheUnitedStatesin2008ranarecord266 billion in 2008, resulting in slower U.S. economic growth and fewer jobs here than if the trade relationship were more balanced between imports and exports. Witnesses differed as to the degree that the overall U.S. trade deficit would decline if the trading relationship between the two countries were brought into balance. But it is significant that the U.S. deficit with China represented 33 percent of the total U.S. trade deficit with the world and 42.6 percent of the deficit with non-oil exporting countries. In addition, it is not just the size of the deficit that policymakers should examine, but the changing nature of its composition. The United States in 2008 ran a record 72.7 billion trade deficit with China in advanced technology products

    China's Industrial Policy and its Impact on U.S. Companies, Workers and the American Economy

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    [Excerpt] China’s industrial policies have had a profound effect on the U.S. economy. The trade deficit with China in goods reached 266billionin2008,resultinginslowerU.S.economicgrowthandfewerjobsherethanifthetraderelationshipweremorebalancedbetweenimportsandexports.WitnessesdifferedastothedegreethattheoverallU.S.tradedeficitwoulddeclineifthetradingrelationshipbetweenthetwocountrieswerebroughtintobalance.ButitissignificantthattheU.S.deficitwithChinarepresented33percentofthetotalU.S.tradedeficitwiththeworldand42.6percentofthedeficitwithnonoilexportingcountries.Inaddition,itisnotjustthesizeofthedeficitthatpolicymakersshouldexamine,butthechangingnatureofitscomposition.TheUnitedStatesin2008ranarecord266 billion in 2008, resulting in slower U.S. economic growth and fewer jobs here than if the trade relationship were more balanced between imports and exports. Witnesses differed as to the degree that the overall U.S. trade deficit would decline if the trading relationship between the two countries were brought into balance. But it is significant that the U.S. deficit with China represented 33 percent of the total U.S. trade deficit with the world and 42.6 percent of the deficit with non-oil exporting countries. In addition, it is not just the size of the deficit that policymakers should examine, but the changing nature of its composition. The United States in 2008 ran a record 72.7 billion trade deficit with China in advanced technology products.ChinaIndustrial_Policy09_03_24_trans.pdf: 2166 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

    Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

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    Mode of access: Internet.Electronic serial mode of access: World Wide Web via the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission web site

    China as an emerging regional and technology power : implications for U.S. economic and security interests : hearing before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, February 12-13, 2004.

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    G.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication.Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.Shipping list no.: 2004-0152-P."Printed for the use of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission."Cover title.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet

    Eclipsing adaptation : the translation of the US MBA model in China

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    The aim of this article is to explore how business schools in China have acted upon calls for greater adaptation of the US MBA model. Scandinavian institutionalism’s concept of translation as a process was employed to make sense of how such normative demands for translation have been accommodated across five case studies. Our findings demonstrate that the normative pressures for adaptation of the MBA on the basis of cultural relativism are not sufficient for significant adaptation. In contrast to other studies of the circulation of ideas and models we found that packaging changed slightly, but form and practice remained largely unchanged. Our conclusion is that the influence of market logic has eclipsed the normative calls for adaptation, resulting in the copying and adoption of the US MBA model
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