Tag: industrialization

The BRI is Dead? Long Live the BRI? Part I: Present at the Creation

March 29, 2023

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which consists of two main components, the sea-focused Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and the land-focused Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB), came into being in 2013.[1] Since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the MSRI and the SREB, there has been considerable positive and negative...

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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Apple plane lands in Indonesia and China; Walmart and Costco experience the high cost of low price; AstraZeneca’s China stimulants and depressants; get out of jail card ain’t so free; EU regulation of high-tech companies, Asian countries follow suit, an

April 22, 2025

Tag: industrialization

Executive Director's Blog

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

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

The BRI is Dead? Long Live the BRI? Part IV-Bad Flail at the Rail(way) or How Not to Confront the BRI

The BRI is Dead? Long Live the BRI?, Part III – The Cracked Belts and Forked Roads Blocking Realization of the BRI Dream

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