Offers helpful advice for decision makers in the key bilateral relationship between China and the West
Takes a particular focus on the investment regimes and climates in this evolving economic relationship
Brings together the thoughts of the highest level thinkers around the globe

Autorentext
Tim Wenniges is the Managing Director for International Affairs at SUEDWESTMETALL, the Baden-Wuerttemberg Employers' Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry. Before he was country director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in China. In both positions he works to build and explore bilateral Sino-German ties. With his work and high-level study of the Chinese economy and new possibilities for the Sino-German relationship, his work is of critical value in the development of the contours of Sino-European trade in the decades to come. He is a public speaker and bridgebuilder between Germany and China. He studied and worked for the last 20 years at the interface of industry and politics in several parts of Europe, the US, Indonesia and China.

Walter Lohman has been Director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, for the last 12 years, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University for six. Prior to this, he was Executive Director of the US-ASEAN Business Council and spent seven years working on Capitol Hill, for Senator John McCain and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Inhalt

1. Chinese Outbound Investments.- 2. Chinese investments in the EU.- 3. CFIUS and A Role for American Leadership.- 4. Investment Relations with China: Never Easy But Always Worthwhile.- 5. Averting Conflict by Promoting Commerce: The Case for a U.S.-China Investment Treaty.- 6. The significance of Chinese financial market liberalisation.- 7. China's Role as an international Investor.- 8. One voice of Europe?.- 9. Rising to the Challenge: The EU and Chinese strategic investments in Europe.- 10. China: A partner for today and for the future?.- 11. China's Outbound Investments and the Rule of Law.- 12. Sino-German Business Relations in Times of Structural Change: Working Towards more Reciprocity.