Dr. Danielly Ramos has joined the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations as a Senior Research Fellow. She is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Brasília. A specialist on Chinese foreign policy and China-Latin American relations, she researchs topics such as Chinese FDI in Latin America.
Wong MNC Center News
January 18th, 2022
January 18th, 2022
Dr. Bas Hooijmaaijers has joined the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations as a Senior Research Fellow. He is Associate Research Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University and focuses on China-EU relations including Chinese investment in Europe and China's Digital Silk Road. For more information, please see http://www.mnccenter.org/research-fellows.
December 14th, 2021
In mid-December, the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (Wong MNC Center) hosted a workshop entitled Chinese Seaports in Europe and the Americas: Cutting through the Waves in the San Francisco Bay Area (California, USA). This 1-1/2 day workshop, also organized and sponsored by the Wong MNC Center, drew leading academics, researchers, and policymakers from Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States who discussed what Chinese companies were doing in European and Latin American and Caribbean ports in the United Kingdom, Greece, and the Netherlands, provided information about the economic, employment, and political effects of Chinese involvement, and contemplated the responses of 3rd party actors such as the European Union and the implications of those responses.
November 17th, 2021
Mr. Jun GE has joined the Advisory Board of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations. He is the Global CEO of TOJOY Holdings and has responsibilities for the company’s development strategy and operations. TOJOY is the largest private business accelerator in China with a global presence. Previously for nearly 30 years, he served as Global Vice President for Intel, Apple and NVIDIA respectively, leading these companies’ development strategy, corporate investment, and public policies in Asia and China. Further information can be found at: https://mnccenter.org/advisory-board-alphabetical-order.
September 7th, 2021
Ms. Tatiana Rosito has joined the Advisory Board of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations. Ms. Rosito is a Brazilian economist and diplomat, currently senior consultant to the New Development Bank in Shanghai. She is a Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations and a member of the China-Brazil Business Council’s consultative committee. Tatiana was Petrobras’ China Chief-Representative and served as a diplomat in Beijing and Singapore, having worked over ten years in Asia. Further information can be found at: https://mnccenter.org/advisory-board-alphabetical-order.
May 9th, 2021
Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, was interviewed for a Taihe Institute TI Observer article about China-United States (US) economic relations with a focus on foreign direct investment (FDI). Dr. Blanchard shared his insights about various issues—e.g., the quest for supply chain resiliency, the opening up of various sectors like the financial services industry, improvements in China’s intellectual property rights (IPR) regime, and the US desire for more manufacturing to be done within its territorial confines—that are influencing bilateral economic ties in areas like FDI. He further gave opinions about what might be needed for China and the US to cooperate under the auspices of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Dr. Blanchard concluded the interview with some thoughts about the likelihood that the China-US economic relationship could return to the status quo.
May 9th, 2021
Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, was interviewed for an article in the The Diplomat. Dr. Blanchard offered his thoughts about the state of China-United States (US) foreign direct investment (FDI) and how various dynamics in China and the US and between the two countries might affect FDI going forward. For example, he commented on how China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, China’s emphasis on self-reliance, and the intensified drive towards reshoring might (or might not) affect FDI. Dr. Blanchard saw some positive trends, but also highlighted a number of political and economic factors that might adversely affect FDI patterns.
March 5th, 2021
Mr. Larry Greenwood has joined the Advisory Board of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations. He 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 Government Relations in Asia for MetLife. From 2006 to 2011, he served as Vice President at the Asian Development Bank. He served as US Ambassador to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group from 2000-2003 and retired in 2006 as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Economic Bureau of the State Department. Further information can be found at: https://mnccenter.org/advisory-board-alphabetical-order.
January 12th, 2021
Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, was interviewed for a Financial Times story examining China's continuing success in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) despite Covid-19 and political tensions between the United States and China. The story highlighted China's continuing economic growth, strength in particular economic sectors like logistics, and opening of certain sectors such as financial services as drivers of the positive inward FDI data. Outward FDI presented a different story and has not approached the highs of 2015 to 2017 for multiple reasons, two of which were, as Dr. Blanchard noted, sensitivity about capital outflows (which still persists to some extent today) as well as a crackdown on some private Chinese companies such as Anbang and HNA that had been big players in China's OFDI surge during the aforementioned period.
January 12th, 2021
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), was invited to participate in an ambitious Middle East Institute (MEI) Frontier Europe Initiative report on China in the Black Sea region, which focused on China's expanded role in the region in the context of its mega Belt and Road Initiative. To quote the report home page, "China has been wooing littoral states in hopes of securing new markets for its goods and investing in infrastructure projects. But some worry that there is more to Chinese actions in the region than meets the eye. The worry is that China will increase its political and diplomatic clout in a region that is considered vital for Russian interests and create tension between Moscow and Washington.
