Doing business in China relies on more than an optimistic message in a fortune cookie.
This is where the frontier aspect of doing business in China comes to the fore.
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Regardless, BYD has become yet another victim of the vagaries of doing business in China.
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Doing business in China is never dull, and this is truer today than ever before.
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Doing business in China is just as difficult as always, and perhaps even more so.
One of the items auctioned off was a lunch with me to discuss doing business in China.
When it comes to doing business in China, your average American executive has a lot of gripes.
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So, if we want exposure to tobacco firms doing business in China, we buy Altria Group ( MO).
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To some extent, cross-border cash management used to be a challenge for treasurers of multinationals doing business in China.
"I think everyone doing business in China is skeptical of the data, " said analyst Alistair Thornton of IHS Global Insight.
For anyone doing business in China, understanding the relationship, differences and interplay between the central and local governments is critical.
They claim to want better living conditions abroad, but their real reason is the extreme risks of doing business in China.
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Such is the assessment of the U.S. China Business Council (USBC), a lobby for U.S. multinationals doing business in China.
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So western firms doing business in China have a responsibility to do their homework and keep a vigilant eye on their suppliers.
Domestic film producers, like Li Peisen, the chairman of Orange Sky Entertainment, say pleasing censors is common sense and part of doing business in China.
At the same time, companies face real challenges when doing business in China and have significant concerns about their ability to compete on a level playing field.
But it can't protect Japanese companies doing business in China from the fallout over growing frictions in Chinese-Japanese relations and that is the greatest immediate threat to Japan's future.
Twenty-five percent, by the way, are doing business in China.
For a graphical look at U.S. export growth to China by state, see the U.S. China Business Council, a lobby group representing U.S. companies doing business in China.
Alan Chen and David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, asked me to teach a group of senior-level executives interested in doing business in China.
Two recent examples underscore this reality of doing business in China and are clarion warning calls for those who plan on doing business there in the future or investing there as well.
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This means that American corporations doing business in China must watch out for more fake outfits, and American consumers with a taste for Chinese products must watch out for more tainted products in their shopping cart.
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"It is no longer just about doing business in China... brands need to therefore align their branding and marketing strategies both in China, and for those rising number of travelling Chinese consumers, " Debnam said in the report.
The company, he said, wanted to promote a self-regulatory body that would allow it to continue doing business in China, and had asked Schell to help develop guidelines that were heavy on disclosure and light on actual limitations.
While the rules will reduce the cost of doing business in China for some companies, Beijing still hasn't offered a clear explanation of what is required for a company to have "substance, " which could potentially stymie efforts by companies to take advantage of the lower rate and leaves uncertainty for businesses thinking of investing in China.
Asian and other outside companies that are doing good business in China also reflect that here.
Through Groupe Danone's painful experience, Kraft learned that building up a local management team to maintain solid connections with the Chinese distributors is a major part of doing retail business in China.
This is the dark side of doing business in a booming China, where government often is your partner, the lines between state and enterprise are blurry and respect for defendant rights is spotty at best.
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