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December 07, 2021 | Report

What can companies do to reduce US-China national security tensions?

 

Insights for What’s Ahead

  • To keep trade doors open, large western companies need to actively engage their home market regulators on issues of national security and public interest regarding doing business in/with China.

                           

Op-ed in The Wire China

Derivative opinion piece in The Wire China here (paywall)
  • While western regulators will inevitably close, (or highly restrict), some aspects of Sino-western trade, active and open regulatory engagement in the US and Europe should help keep doors open that needn’t be shut.

 
  • New, regularized regulatory engagement models and reporting standards could work to satisfy understandable home market concerns.

 
  • In turn, clearer regulatory stances in the US and Europe on permissible trade activity should serve to reduce “secure and controllable” concerns on the China side.

 

AUTHOR

DavidHoffman

China Center Leader and Senior Advisor, Asia
The Conference Board


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