US trade war with China

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China proposes to draft law banning forced technological transfer from foreign companies. You can find the FT article at: https://www.ft.com/content/90cd02ba-0739-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967cfc

This seemingly addresses the key complaint of the Trump administration which then triggered the US-China trade war. It is interesting to see what's coming next in midst of the US-China trade deal negotiation.
 
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    China says it is "ready to work" with the US:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46714985

    In mock interviews, I often ask students whether the US tariffs are justified if they bring China to the table. It'll be interesting to see what, if any, policy changes are made during these negotiations.
     
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    Hey guys, here’s an interesting article about barriers to entry for foreign companies (specifically, visa and Mastercard) into the Chinese market.

    https://www.ft.com/content/8dee4b22-13ef-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e

    It focuses on Visa and Mastercard’s attempts to enter the Chinese domestic market. Despite recent rule reforms to enable this, China’s central bank has refused to acknowledge the applications made by Visa and Mastercard. The writer has used this refusal to suggest that this is evidence of China's attempts to shelter domestic companies from foreign competition.
     

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    China suffered the biggest fall in exports in two years. Imports also fell due to cooling domestic demand.
    https://www.ft.com/content/713ee398-179a-11e9-9e64-d150b3105d21
    Do you think China will now be more eager to strike a deal?

    Maybe yes or no: https://www.finimize.com/wp/news/china-trumps-dollar/

    In the midst of the trade war, the Chinese yuan has been an attractive investment option for some of the investors, thereby boosting the value of Chinese yuan against US dollar. Whilst one would argue that striking a deal would boost the Chinese companies' profits (and in turn boost the Chinese economy), if you look into the statistics of foreign luxury brand sales in China despite the trade war, it looks to me the deal negotiation can really work both ways.
     
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    Further reading for those constantly keeping an eye on the trade war negotiation between US and China: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46819099

    The BBC article spells out the three things that US and China 'will never' agree on. Quite skeptical of the use of 'will never', particularly in the political arena where one would say 'never say never'.

    Thanks for sharing - that's a good article for practicing a case study interview. I agree with your argument!
     
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    Doing my commercial awareness update on this topic too guys so stay tuned!! @D.Cole, I shall be answering this in depth in my write up which I shall be working on today! I shall try give a brief but detailed enough working answer for you later on until it’s published in full next week :) hope that’s ok and helpful!
     
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