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Economic Statecraft: Options for Reducing U.S. Overdependence on Chinese-supplie...
April 24th, 2020Gabriel B. Collins and Andrew S. Erickson, Economic Statecraft: Options for Reducing U.S. Overdependence on Chinese-supplied Materials and Medications (Houston, TX: Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, 23…
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China Tries to Avoid a “Magna Carta Moment”
November 5th, 2015Gabriel Collins, The Diplomat, 5 November 2015 The work of Chinese civil courts on business cases may be gradually creating a foundation for individual rights. China’s…
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China’s Public Hospital Governance Reforms are Setting the Stage for Corporati...
January 26th, 2015With appropriate legal and policy support, corporatization could begin within the next 2-3 years. Key Points: –China’s public hospital reform experiments thus far have laid a…
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Tilling Foreign Soil: New Farmland Ownership Laws Force Chinese Agriculture Inve...
March 29th, 2012Chinese consumers’ growing appetite for meat is driving increased grain imports, which is great news for corn and soybean growers in Argentina and Brazil. Yet Chinese…
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Transparency is Not Just for the Military: Improved commodity data reporting fro...
October 14th, 2011Just last week, the China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association estimated the country’s copper reserves at year-end 2010 to have been 1.9 million tonnes—roughly as much as…
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A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act with Chinese Characteristics: Web-based reportin...
May 1st, 2011–In late February 2011, the National People’s Congress ratified an amendment to China’s Criminal Law that makes it illegal for PRC nationals and companies to bribe…