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 [...]
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Jeff Weintraub in China Daily
Cleary on Trade
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 [...]
How Things Work in China
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 [...]
A Miracle
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 [...]
Big U.S. China Meeting in Washington
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 [...]
The Echo Chamber Assesses The White House
If you ever want to get a sense of the latest thinking of the Washington policy wonk echo chamber (not that there’s anything wrong with that), The National Journal regularly goes back to a panel of about 100 prominent Democratic and Republican politicos and asks them about any number of issues.
This time the magazine has [...]
The Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill: How Will It Play Out?
The 600-page Waxman-Markey climate change bill (officially known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act) is truly a climate change wish list. Introduced in late March, it includes funding for renewable energy and clean coal technology; a renewable portfolio standard; provisions to increase home and office energy efficiency; measures to stimulate the smart grid and alternative-fuel vehicles development; [...]
Wither the Tea Party?
The tea party protests planned across the nation by fiscal conservatives turned out to be a very weak blend, indeed.
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If you listened to conservative pundits leading up to the Tax Day events, the events would be the crest of an anti-tax wave sweeping the nation. But when the big day arrived, crowds were smaller than [...]
Four Things to Know About Green Jobs
Green energy jobs. Green collar jobs. Green technology jobs. Environmental jobs.
Call them what you will but the economic downturn, resurgence in popularity of alternative energy, and glut of stimulus funding has pushed the concept of “green” jobs to the tip of many American’s tongues. But, opinions differ on the topics of what exactly a green [...]
Narrow Focus on Chinese Economy Neglects Other Issues
Li Hong and Yougeng Sun of FH Beijing offer this analysis of how the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference are responding to economic crisis in their country.
In the face of the severe economic downturns and devastating credit crisis around the world, the Chinese government introduced last November massive economic stimulus [...]
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