2024 "1st Quarter" 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.


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Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part I: Poisoning WuXi AppTec and its Kin

Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
In January 2024, Congressman Mike Gallagher, the Chair of the United States (US) House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the “Biosecure Act,” which prohibits the US government (USG) from “procuring or obtaining biotechnology equipment or services produced or provided by a biotechnology company of concern,” participating in a contract that used such equipment or services or “requires the direct use of such equipment or services...
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Hot Topics for MNCs, Cool Analysis

No Turning Back the Clock for TikTok and its Broader Business Ramifications

The United States (U.S.) government (USG) has long wanted to enervate TikTok, which hosts short-form videos and whose owner is China’s ByteDance.

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Wong MNC Center Publications and Sponsored Publications

Chinese Overseas ports in Europe and the Americas: Lessons for Businesspeople

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Chaitanya Pasupala

This special report distills the business lessons contained in Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, ed., Chinese Overseas Ports in Europe and the Americas: Understanding Smooth and Turbulent Waters (London: Routledge, 2024).

Chinese Overseas Ports in Europe and the Americas: Lessons for Policymakers

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Chaitanya Pasupala

This is a distillation of the policy lessons contained in Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, ed., Chinese Overseas Ports in Europe and the Americas: Understanding Smooth and Turbulent Waters (London: Routledge, 2024).

Publications of Wong MNC Center Staff & Research Fellows

Selling to China: Stories of Success, Failure, and Constant Change

Kerr Gibbs, ed.

Dealing with China has never been easy for American businesses, but the situation has become more difficult in recent years due to China’s challenging contemporary economic situation, increased political and economic tensions between China and the United States (US), and the evolving political environment within China and the US, among other things. In this context, Selling to China (Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), edited by Ker D. Gibbs, the former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and an Advisory Board member of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H.

Fighting Monopolies: The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, India, and the Competition for the Marketplace of International Development

Amitendu Palit and Preety Phogal

“Fighting Monopolies,” co-authored by Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Amitendu Palit, explores India’s reluctance to participate in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) looking beyond traditionally emphasized factors like bilateral security concerns, domestic politics, and economic considerations. It contends that the BRI represents China’s bid to establish itself as the dominant player in the global development market, historically dominated by Western nations.

Chinese Investments in Malaysia

Tham Siew Yean

“Chinese Investments in Malaysia,” penned by Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Tham Siew Yean, explores the intricate relationship between foreign direct investments (FDI) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Malaysia. The BRI has become a significant driver of Malaysian inward FDI. The study, using an Antecedent, FDI Decision and Outcome (ADO) Framework, is based on a more comprehensive BRI definition, extending beyond infrastructure to encompass manufacturing and services.

Latin American and Caribbean Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in China in the Twenty First Century

Enrique Dussel Peters, ed.

“Latin American and Caribbean Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in China in the Twenty First Century” is a massive tomb, orchestrated by a leading researcher on China-Latin America economic links and Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations non-resident Senior Research Fellow Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters. It consists of a rich set of analyses of the understudied topic of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) by Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries in China.

Pondering the BRI’s Alleged New Roads

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

“Pondering the BRI’s Alleged New Roads,” an Op-Ed by Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, challenges the latest conventional wisdom about the state and future of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). For some, the BRI is on the way to being derailed. For others, the BRI is shifting to a smaller, greener, and more beautiful future.

New Airport Shows Cambodia Can Get What it Wants from China

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

This Op-Ed, penned by Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, discusses Cambodia’s Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport, a massive $1 billion dollar airport completed through a build-operate-transfer structure featuring a Chinese consortium, detailing some of the new airport’s pluses and minuses. It also ponders what the airport says about the future of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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