Tag: green energy

Second Takes on China’s Foreign Economic Policy after the 2023 Two Sessions and 20th Party Congress

March 25, 2023

China’s 20th Party Congress in October 2022 and its March 2023 “Two Sessions” revealed the new top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), confirmed China’s top government officials, shed light on the CCP’s current agenda, concerns, and dogmas, promulgated new policies, and presented the government’s work program. On the...

Dirty Foreign Direct Investment? Chinese Outward FDI and Pollution Pathologies

August 18, 2018

In the 1970s, Tokyo adopted a conscious strategy to encourage outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Japanese firms as a way to mitigate the poisonous pollution flowing from Japan’s economic miracle. This OFDI imposed considerable negative environmental externalities on Southeast Asia and China where Japanese companies shifted their operations. In...

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MNC Center Executive Director

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Smart moves and cracked chips; Mine cave in; requesting gold for frozen steel; shopping for success; social media turnoffs and blockages

August 24, 2026

Tag: green energy

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Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Ph.D.

Putting Chinese outward FDI in a Bind

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Lite Shouldn’t Corrupt Your Thinking

The High Costs of Addressing the High Costs of Low Costs

Chipping Away the Politico-Economic Implications of the US Stake in Intel

Apple Sauced and the Ripening of New Pathways

Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part IV: Poison “Bills,” Side Effects, and Immunizations

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