In late May, Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (“Wong MNC Center”), met with Dr. NGEOW Chow Bing, the Director of Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Blanchard spoke to Dr. Ngeow about various aspects of Chinese investment in Malaysia, updated him on the research and other activities of the...
May 2023 Newsletter
The Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, a California (US) think tank, promotes discussion about and research on the politico-economy of MNCs investing, operating, or domiciled in East Asia.
MNC Center News
In early April, C. Lawrence Greenwood, a long-time member of the Advisory Board for the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (“Wong MNC Center”), became a member of the Board of Directors. Larry is Senior Adviser at BowerGroupAsia and also Japan Society of Northern California (JSNC) Board Chairman. From 2016-2019, he was JSNC President. Previously, he was Senior Managing Director for...
Blog Postings
Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
My last blog highlighted the debate raging about the health of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).[1] It also reviewed the economic and political rationales for China’s ambitious scheme. This blog takes the position that the BRI is neither dead nor on life-support. Such claims ignore the array of enduring domestic and international reasons (enumerated below) for China to continue pushing it and, importantly, for Chinese...
Hot Topics for MNCs, Cool Analysis
The United States (US) has been striving for some time to hinder China’s acquisition of technology-related hardware, software, and intellectual property (IP) through export controls, limits on Chinese investment in...
