Art Censorship in China: The Unknown Third Side 15/04/2013 English Composition Fatima Al-Mousawi Art Censorship in China: A Western Issue & the Chinese Opinion “Free societies... are societies in motion… Free people strike sparks‚ and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom ’s existence”. So are the words of Salman Rushdie on the topic of freedom of speech and its censorship (Rushdie). Those words bring attention to many of today’s societies that disallow these sparks in many of
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OF FDI IN CHINA DETERMINANTS OF FDI IN CHINA Shaukat Ali and Wei Guo1 ABSTRACT Why and how firms take advantage of foreign opportunities‚ especially via foreign direct investment (FDI) has been much documented. China‚ as a major emerging market‚ has attracted significant flows of FDI‚ to become the second largest receipt. This paper briefly examines the literature on FDI and focuses on likely determinants of FDI in China. It then analyses responses from 22 firms operating in China on what they
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eBay: How can eBay build its culture in China I. Overview eBay is an online provider of marketplaces for the sale of goods and services. It also provides commerce‚ platforms‚ online payments services and online communications. It offers products and service to individuals and businesses. Established in 1995‚ the company operates in the US and other international markets with employs 16‚400 people. eBay keeps its leadership position in the new industry – C2C (consumer to consumer) (Ou and Banerjee
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Introduction Cathay Pacific Airways is an international airline registered and based in Hong Kong‚ offering scheduled cargo and passenger services to over 80 destinations around the world. They are deeply committed to Hong Kong‚ where the Company was founded in 1946. They continue to make substantial investments to develop Hong Kong’s aviation industry and enhance Hong Kong’s position as a regional transportation hub. In addition to their fleet of aircrafts‚ these investments include catering‚
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For exclusive use at Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM)‚ 2015 9 -7 1 1 -0 1 0 REV: MARCH 30‚ 2012 DIEGO COMIN RICHARD H. K. VIETOR China “Unbalanced” We urgently need to transform the pattern of economic development‚” pronounced Premier Wen Jiabao in March 2010. “We will work hard to put economic development on the track of endogenous growth‚ driven by innovation. — Premier Wen Jiabao‚ March 20101 Since the early 2000s‚ the success of China’s export-led growth strategy had been alienating
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upswing in Pakistan-China relations. China‚ which was under the strong pressure of the West led by the US in those days of the Cold War as shown by the establishment of SEATO and had fought a war with India because of their territorial dispute‚ needed friends to end its international isolation and counter India in South Asia. Pakistan because of its strained relations with India was in search of friends in its neighbourhood to neutralise‚ to some extent‚ India’s power superiority. China met the demands
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education and income. Between 1980 and 2012 China’s HDI rose by 2.0% annually from 0.407 to 0.699 today‚ which gives the country a rank of 101 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI of East Asia and the Pacific as a region increased from 0.432 in 1980 to 0.683 today‚ placing China above the regional average. 1.4 1. Global warming has been a controversial subject for decades. It is inevitable for an economy that wishes to grow in the short term as the efficient‚ non-renewable resources
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recently signed short term production contracts with a long term strategy of production in China. Unlike Nike’s previous global endeavors‚ the political and cultural atmosphere in China has made the collaboration more demanding. Opportunities As the South Korean standard of living continued to improve‚ expected wages grew forcing Nike to look elsewhere for low cost shoe production. Market research identified China and India as the best long term possibilities for the new production facilities based
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most prominent SEZs in the country are Shenzhen‚ Xiamen‚ Shantou‚ and Zhuhai. It is notable that Shenzhen‚ Shantou‚ and Zhuhai are all in Guangdong province‚ and all are on the southern coast of China where sea is very accessible for transportation of goods. An analysis of the performance of these SEZs in China versus those in India in liberalizing the Chinese and Indian economies and their impact on economic growth was conducted by Leong (2012). This paper investigates the role of special economic
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Cathay Pacific Case Analysis 10/25/2007 Cathay Pacific (CP) is an interesting case because it is an example of a company attempting to work in isolation‚ vertically integrated and developing all their needs themselves. Truth is however; in today’s interconnected economy a company working independently simply can not compete. The world has become too dynamic and contains too many other companies developing better solutions to rely solely on one’s internal organization. Cathay eventually
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