China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance … democracies are more likely to import surveillance AI from China. This bias is not observed in AI imports from the US or in … imports of other frontier technologies from China. Third, autocracies and weak democracies are especially more likely to …

In this paper, we examine Hong Kong's role in intermediating trade between China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong … distributes a large fraction of China's exports. Net of customs, insurance, and freight charges, re-exports of Chinese goods are … higher for differentiated products, products with higher variance in export prices, products sent to China for further …

China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in … China accounted for 45 percent of China's exports. Foreign investments include foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign …

The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …

census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …

Chinese imports and exports grew rapidly during the first three decades of the twentieth century as China opened up to … for unskilled workers producing these goods in China. When the war ended, trade costs declined, leading to a rise in China …'s terms of trade and further growth in China's export sector. Difference-in-differences regression estimates show that World …