Fleishman Hillard senior strategist Dan Baxter recently completed his assignment in our Beijing office to return to Brussels. In a sort of valedictory, he offers very useful guidance in the online publication PublicAffairsAsia on how to be an effective public affairs advocate in China.  While the Chinese government may seem opaque to Westerners, Dan [...]

January 31st, 2010 by Bill Black | 1 Comment
Tags: China · Public Affairs

Fleishman Hillard Partner Jeff Weintraub has an op ed in today’s China Daily outlining some of the issues that will confront Sino-American relations at the G20 Summit to be held in Pittsburgh next week.
Jeff points to the recent decision by the Obama Administration to slap a tariff on tires imported from China as a major [...]

September 23rd, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

Fleishman Hillard Senior Vice President Pat Cleary penned an opinion piece published in China Daily on a very controversial trade issue involving tire imports from China to the U.S. As Pat points out, it puts the Obama administration in a deep bind, having to choose between a strong domestic constituency, the United Steelworkers and [...]

August 25th, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

The Global Times reports on the closing of a cadmium plant in Hunan province due to public protests over severe pollution.  The story describes the frustration of people living close to the plant, who have been complaining about the toxic emissions for two years without a response from local officials.  There are two ways to [...]

August 4th, 2009 by Bill Black | 1 Comment

The Financial Times has a fascinating story about Wang Yang, the party secretary of Guangdong province, the most economically robust province the the country.  Thirty years ago, Quangdong was a rural backwater.  In the more distant past , it was a Chinese Siberia where emperors sent political adversaries to exile.  Now, it represents the vanguard [...]

August 3rd, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

Anyone who’s been to China on official business has experienced the legendary banquets that involve vast amounts of drinking.  When I worked on Capitol Hill, I went on an official trip to the region.  At one dinner with government officials, we began the toasts after the meal.  The toast began with rice wine and moved [...]

July 30th, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

The Global Times, the international newspaper of the Chinese Communist party, editorialized very positively on the U.S. China meetings that just concluded in Washington.   In keeping with President Obama’s assertion that the history of the 21st century will be defined by the relationship between the US and China, the Chinese see these talks as a [...]

July 29th, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

The China Daily newspaper is one of the most authoritative news sources in China with a daily circulation of more than 300,000 in 150 countries.  Today, it published a column by Fleishman Hillard’s Dan Baxter, a senior vice president in the Beijing office on the top level U.S. China meetings in Washington called the Strategic [...]

July 28th, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

There was a very significant meeting between the U.S. and China occurred today.  It paralyzed the city because streets around the Ronald Reagan Building, where the meeting took place, were closed.
It was a joint meeting of the Departments of Treasury and State and their counterparts from China.  The Obama Administration is seeking to open up [...]

July 27th, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.

The Global Times, the Communist Party’s official “global newspaper,” hosted a seminar on “Public Opinion in China and the Changing World.  On its website, it posted a slide show listing all the participants, mostly scholars, as well as abstracts on their point of view.

July 26th, 2009 by Bill Black | Comment on this.