Using the texts of the People’s Daily, an official publication of the Communist Party of China, the author shows that the socialist alliance between China and North Korea has significantly weakened since the Korean War.

The authors develop a quantitative indicator of the Chinese government's policy priorities over a long period of time, which they call the Policy Change Index (PCI) of China.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers accruing to Chinese local industry at both intra- and inter-industry levels and how such effects vary with the nationality of the investor. Design/methodology/approach – A panel dataset for Chinese...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether multinational corporations moving into China have a negative impact on the extent of foreign firms moving into other developing countries in East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The paper controls...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a timely review and analysis of China's regional trade agreements, its motivations, and its economic implications for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) member countries and other trading partners....

Purpose – Food products' ultimate destination is intended for the general public, but those who supply the international markets are usually composed of a relatively small group of businessmen including international buyers, purchasing agents and importers. Understanding the motivation behind...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate the corporate market and non-market behaviors (such as social, legal, and political activities) into the research of competitive interaction. Design/methodology/approach – “Structured content analysis” is used in analyzing the...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors of growth of a developing country such as China. Because of the existence of domestic distortions, the traditional approach of using the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) to represent economic growth of the economy is not appropriate. This...

Purpose – The economic linkages between China and Japan have been strengthened through both trade and Japanese direct investment in China for past decades. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of Japanese direct investment in China on the Sino-Japanese bilateral trade....

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to empirically examine the interdependence of income between China and ASEAN-5 countries by using the real gross domestic product (GDP). Besides answering this important policy question, the paper is also concerned with ascertaining the causal direction...