School of Business

International Business Regions: China

Seminar 1

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The big questions for this course:

• Is China to be feared or embraced?

• Will China continue to balance its economic

miracle without any political change?

• How can it maintain social stability when the

population goes from rural to urban and a

widening wealth gap emerges?

• How will China’s position as a political

superpower effect the balance of power?

• What’s so important about ‘guanxi’关系?

(Connections)

• How easy is it to do business in China when the

pace of change is so fast?

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Changing China

Political change

inevitable?

Urban pre-eminence

Ruraleconomy

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Dragon: to be feared or embraced?

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Balance of Power

USA CHINA

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“You will never be Chinese!”

– Mark Kitto,

English entrepreneur and author of ‘That’s China!’ quoted in Prospect Magazine

What do you think this means and what are the implications for doing business in China?