The new reform policies set up industries producing appliances, textiles, garments, computers, mobile phones and other inexpensive manufactured goods (Shekarabi & Rabii 2007). While China opened up to foreign investments and the outside world, Continue Reading...
China F/X China faces a tough decision with respect to floating the yuan or not. Ultimately, a float will severely limit China's ability to control the value of its currency. At present, this will be a significant problem because the yuan would like Continue Reading...
China's massive growth over the last two decades has brought with it a similarly explosive need for energy resources, a need that as of yet cannot be fulfilled by domestic reserves. Thus, China imported 3.5 million barrels of oil per day in 2006, a Continue Reading...
(Hill, 2008, pg. 371) Under what circumstances might a decision to let the yuan float freely destabilize the Chinese economy? What might the global implications of this be? If the there is outside pressure from Western governments and Chinese trad Continue Reading...
The country retained control over the banking system in particular, and has exerted strong control over key elements of the macroeconomic environment. Financial reform in the 1990s restructured the banking industry. These reforms increased the role Continue Reading...
For example, there are several suspicions regarding the foreign companies audited by Chinese authorized auditors, given their reduced number and lack of experience. Another example regards China Life Insurance, which was listed on the Hong Kong and Continue Reading...
Both the countries have a huge population and increasing energy demands to propel the growth at the current rate. While the Yangtze river project was mainly undertaken to serve the energy needs of the rapidly growing eastern cities of Shangai and ce Continue Reading...
China The Dilemma of a Ethical Practices and Profitability of Trading with China China continues to have one of the world's strongest and most resilient economies, achieving a 10.3% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in 2010 compared to the w Continue Reading...
China's currency manipulation is one of the most important. The Chinese government buys foreign currency, keeping the value of the yuan low. While this is a benefit to Chinese exporters, it makes non-Chinese products more expensive in China. High pr Continue Reading...
China It was the end of the 19th century, during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Imperialism. Meiji Japan and Qing China engage in modern warfare. The Sino-Japanese War was a defining moment for all of East Asia. The outcome o Continue Reading...
This was another blow for the local markets as the SOEs formed the crux of all Chinese businesses. The privatization of this sector was initiated in 1995 when the government kept the big profit-making SOEs and discarded the smaller SOEs, yet the gov Continue Reading...
While at the same time, it will make imports in Hong Kong / China cheaper in relation to goods that are manufactured in both locations. Over the course of time, this will cause the trade surplus that Hong Kong / China enjoys decreasing as both marke Continue Reading...
The market for coffee is slightly counterintuitive for the Chinese market since coffee is not actually the beverage of choice in China -- the Chinese much prefer tea. What has become evident is that the typical Chinese middle-class individual will Continue Reading...
China Manufacturing Chinese Manufacturing Industry The social group that I choose to analyze is the population involved with the Chinese manufacturing industry. I choose this particular group is because of three reasons. The first reason is China's Continue Reading...
China Candid Tell what the book is about. Do not give a summary of the story, but give the topic, geographic area, and timespan that the book covers. This should take only one mid-length paragraph. China Candid: A People's Account of the People's R Continue Reading...
("Chinese History.") The Second Opium War would involve: the contention that the Chinese and the British would have for each other. As the British wanted greater controls of the ports and land routes. Yet, the Chinese felt that the treaty to end th Continue Reading...
The Cambodia-Thai conflict has had a negative impact on the relationship between the people in the area of the conflict. Furthermore, the two countries are members of ASEAN and this dispute has had a negative impact on the ASEAN's development. The Continue Reading...
In addition, many assume that a capitalist free-market economy requires competition. However, Tanner posits that competition is not a necessary part of capitalism. She believes that the capitalist ideal is that of a "mutually beneficial competitive Continue Reading...
China's Rise: The strategic Stake While we have so far discussed the positive economic impact of a growing China from the perspective of Australia, there are also some concerns about China's growing stature and the changing strategic balance. As a Continue Reading...
Bibliography 2006 report to Congress on China's WTO compliance (2006, December 11). United States Trade Representative. Retrieved at http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2006/asset_upload_file688_10223.pdf brief chronol Continue Reading...
This is an opportune time to establish a foothold in China for the United States' knowledge economy. The longer the United States has to wait, the smaller its advantage will be upon entering the Chinese market, which it will eventually have to do. Continue Reading...
Several factors should be considered before the restrictions are lessened. The relaxation of the policy will only be considered if there is an ample amount of evidence showing that low fertility rates will be sustained. Current studies show that Chi Continue Reading...
Parents are aware that the competitive economy combined with the pressure to succeed means they must push their children. Schools and teachers are also under tremendous pressure to perform. "Some schools link teacher pay to student test performance, Continue Reading...
2009; Zhang et al. 2009). Claims of the programs' success in general are also claimed to be highly exaggerated in official reports, which often provide the only numbers available on the subject (Jacka 2007; Xiaokang 1996). The human rights issues t Continue Reading...
The introduction of reform for the good of the Chinese people has not been framed by the authorities, nor is it framed in the minds of most of the population, as the ability to disagree with the government. Thus "freedom of the media is more a lessen Continue Reading...
China did not have any debts to pay. However, actually during this era Chinese authority had been so undermined and the prestige of the government with its own people so completely destroyed "that it may well be said to have prepared the ground for Continue Reading...
Moreover, the "Great Leap Forward" was a negative response to "urban-centered planning strategies; and the "Cultural Revolution" involved the "excision of tens of millions of urban educated from the cities" in an effort to "dissipate the new and thr Continue Reading...
China's Taiwan Policy China -- the most populous country in the world -- has exhibited remarkably high levels of sustained economic growth in the two decades since it reformed its economy following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. According to some Continue Reading...
China & India: Rapid Economic Growth -- Additional pages Additional Introduction / Conclusion Copy How did China and India emerge so rapidly as enormous economic powers? This paper reviews the circumstances of the economic advancement that both Continue Reading...
China-U.S. bilateral relationship The past one decade of the 20th century has witnessed dramatic fluctuations in the China-U.S. relations. For instance, the Taiwan Strait led to several summit meetings to take place in Washington and Beijing to deci Continue Reading...
China IP China's intellectual property rights protections have come a long way since 1978, but there remains room for improvement. While the de jure situation with respect to protecting intellectual property rights approaches Western standards, the Continue Reading...
In this probably lies the greatest risk of doing business in China as it is difficult to collect full payment in time. The greatest threat to companies with successful products or brand name is from intellectual property pirates. Any organization pl Continue Reading...
China Trade Policy China's agricultural trade policies are driven by its need to feed its massive population. The country has quotas that average 15.8%, with 5.8% of products being duty free and 1087 total tariff lines. These duties sit in line with Continue Reading...
Week 6. China's Democratisation: Implications for International Relations Is it a fantasy to expect China's democratization through trade and engagement with the West? It is rather difficult to consider trade as being a democratization tool. Inde Continue Reading...
The U.S. trade deficit and downward pressure on wages in many industries is more a factor of the Chinese manufacturing sector being more aggressive in lean manufacturing and efficiency practices (Taj, 2008) than any other factor. To demonize China i Continue Reading...
China & IP My research topic is intellectual property rights in China. My thesis is that China needs to strengthen its protection of intellectual property rights in order to improve its integration with the global economic system. I will argue t Continue Reading...
S. For its weapons sales to Taiwan. (Janbo) It must also be noted that China's Naval expansion is a departure from what many experts conjectured in the recent past. Like many before, Lee Lai To commented just a few years ago that China, regardless o Continue Reading...
This is to suggest that little in the way of resistance will be practical. Because this transition is occurring by the paths of global free trade, state governance is having little impact on slowing down the transfer of properties and equities throu Continue Reading...
Many of the positive facets of globalization -- such as laborers taking classes during the weekend and actually expanding their knowledge by gaining an opportunity to see the world -- that she discusses are not experienced by the majority of the wor Continue Reading...
But India could catch up if it successfully encouraged private companies to compete and survive, put a check on poorly performing financial institutions and those yielding to political compromises. These measures could help boost India's savings and Continue Reading...
