Monday, March 26, 2012

The Bees Get Busy


This article does not talk about business directly, but rather indirectly through foreign policy and political reform. In the new future, China’s leadership will change and an important transition will take place as the older generation passes the reins on to the younger generation. In the midst of this transition, reformers in China are trying to take advantage of the change in order to change government policy. The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, “circulated a ten-year timetable for the liberalization of capital markets.” This means that it would be easier for Chinese entrepreneurs to buy foreign companies. It would also open up Chinese stock-, bond, and property markets. In the past, these reformers have had a hard time making themselves heard and not being ignored by the Communist party, however on February 27, 2012, they were able to recruit the World Bank to their cause as well. Together, these two entities, with the support of a Chinese think-tank issued a report to submit a number of major changes in Chinese policy.
This article is interesting to me because political structure plays such a huge role in business. In China where the government is Communist, it really creates complications for businesses that operate there as well as for Chinese people who are trying to get involved in international business. I believe that such policy changes could have great results for the Chinese people and others throughout the world.

3 March 2012

Josh Thompson

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