Events Archive
Spotlight: Compliance & Strategy in China’s Rapidly Changing Environment Policy
This event featured thoughts from Deputy Sec. Pang of CPCIF on China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and implications for environmental compliance in China. The 14th FYP will place great emphasis on meeting China’s environmental challenges.
Forecast Beijing 2021
The US-China Business Council (USCBC) in Beijing was pleased to hold a premier conference on China's business and political environment in the year ahead. This in-person conference will provide fantastic insights into commercial, economic, and political developments in the year ahead. This event featured top China policy experts and government official that discussed key challenges and opportunities for 2021.
FDI & M&A China: How Companies Can Leverage Current Investment Environment
The US-China Business Council was pleased to host a webinar with USCBC member KPMG to discuss recent trends in investment into China and how companies can make use of the current FDI and M&A environment to grow their business. China was the largest recipient of FDI in 2020 for the first time ever, a trend that shows no signs of changing. KPMG partners Mark Harrison and Christopher Mak delivered an info-packed discussion that covered:
Briefing on the US-China Alaska Meetings with the State Department
The US-China Business Council and US Chamber of Commerce was pleased to host an off-the-record, closed door virtual briefing with Jonathan Fritz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State, and Laura Rosenberger, Senior Director for China at the National Security Council, to brief member companies on the US-China meetings that happened in Alaska.
The China Paradox: Geopolitics, Chinese Economic Policy, and What It Means for US Businesses
In the coming years, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy. Already, China's economy is larger than Japan, Germany, and India combined. China remains the United States largest trading partner, yet there is growing bipartisan concern in the United States about China's actions on a range of issues that are in direct conflict with US values and interests.
American Attitudes Towards China Harden
Though the trend of increasing wariness of China among the American public is not a surprise, new polling from the Pew Research Center shows the extent of changes in the past few years. Nearly nine in ten Americans consider China a competitor or an enemy, and nearly half think that limiting China's power and influence should be a top priority of US foreign policy.
USCBC-Wilson Center - NPC Two Meetings Debriefing
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National Security Investment Reviews: A Look at the US and Chinese Systems
The United States and China have both taken steps to strengthen foreign investment security reviews. In December, China issued new rules governing national security reviews for foreign investment, and since 2018 the Department of Treasury has been progressively implementing updates to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) process for reviewing national security implications of FDI in the United States. What are the recent changes? How do they compare in scope and process? What industries should expect the most scrutiny?
China Market Intelligence Live Conference Call
The USCBC hosted a China Market Intelligence Live conference call on Tuesday, March 16 at 8:00pm EDT/Wednesday, March 17 at 8:00am for those based in China. Craig Allen; President; Jake Parker, Senior Vice President; Anna Ashton; Senior Director, Government Affairs; Jack Kamensky; Director of Business Advisory; Lipei Zhang, Director of Beijing Office; and Matt Margulies, Vice President of China Operations, gave updates on the trade bilateral trade relationship.
Government Procurement: Policy Changes in the US and China
Over the past two years, the United States and China have proposed major changes to government procurement policies. China released revised drafts of the Tendering and Bidding Law and the Government Procurement Law, as well as a new Foreign Investment Law, which promises equal treatment in the procurement process for foreign-invested enterprises in China.