China has recently updated its laws on the (security) screening of foreign investment, promulgated a new export … of US law. Beijing wages legal warfare (‘lawfare’) against Hong Kong, in the South China Sea, along the Belt and Road …

economies are fraught with human rights challenges; indeed, they have been even before China joined the WTO on 11 December 2001 …

We use the unique economic, legal, and political landscape of China to examine the impact of auditors on the incidence … financial statement fraud in China, an emerging market in which auditors face strong government sanctions but low litigation … – successfully compete in China …

, suggesting that reputational sanction is a weak, if not ineffective, instrument of market regulation in China … on its workings and effectiveness is largely limited to developed economies. We thus examine the case of China, focusing … on an important yet understudied form of reputational sanction there, namely public criticisms imposed on culpable firms …