Chinese FDI in the EU and the US Simple Rules for Turbulent Times

This book examines the evolving economic relationship between China and the West, in particular investment regimes and climates.  How do their economic models differ, how do they interact, and what does it mean for growth and economic freedom? In rec

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Chinese FDI in the EU and the US

Tim Wenniges  •  Walter Lohman Editors

Chinese FDI in the EU and the US Simple Rules for Turbulent Times

Editors Tim Wenniges SUEDWESTMETALL – Employers’ Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry of Baden-Wuerttemberg Stuttgart, Germany

Walter Lohman The Heritage Foundation Washington, DC, USA

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Preface

In a 2012 Harvard Business Review article previewing their subsequent book, Simple Rules: How to Survive in a Complex World, management gurus Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt suggest a set of rules to bridge between a company’s strategy and its execution. Although written with business management in mind, it is a concept with important application to international economic interaction—in particular, the West’s relationship with China. We will let the reader deduce from the readings that follow what these rules should entail. For our part, we would like to lay out what we think the strategic objectives of Europe-US economic engagement with China should be and point the reader to where he might find the rules to govern them. As we see it, there are four objectives that should guide the relationship: 1. Maximize China’s positive contributions to our own national economies, and by extension, the global economy. China is simply too big