subcontracting. `Illegal' trade between China and Taiwan has been induced by Taiwan's `no direct trade' policy. Illegal trade such as …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 …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …

the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on …-level economic indicators, we find that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China …" businesses and technology pioneered by China, and that a system where only rich countries lead in innovation could limit …

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 …