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And it has deployed a variety of methods – including weak intellectual property (IP) protections, technology transfers as a condition for joint ventures with Chinese partners, evasion of export controls, and regulatory harassment – to acquire such technologies from the US and other trading partners.
A special report on semiconductors – essential to US national security and economic competitiveness – for President Barack’s Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) provides some answers.The report, written by a nonpartisan group of business and academic leaders (I was a member), proposed that the US work with its allies to enforce international law, push China to comply with its World Trade Organization obligations, and strengthen export
controls
and inward investment restrictions.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the acquisition of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.The PCAST report recommends that the US adopt similar tactics, calibrating export
controls
and inward investment limits according to China’s behavior.
The report, written by a nonpartisan group of business and academic leaders (I was a member), proposed that the US work with its allies to enforce international law, push China to comply with its World Trade Organization obligations, and strengthen export
controls
and inward investment restrictions.
The PCAST report recommends that the US adopt similar tactics, calibrating export
controls
and inward investment limits according to China’s behavior.
In an economy where several sectors are still shackled by pervasive regulations and controls, the payment of bribes in exchange for government permits can sometimes restore some semblance of a free market.
Generally, young people post more information of an edgy nature about themselves and about their friends than do older adults, so they are quickly learning the need for specific
controls.
Just as Facebook has educated people, clumsily, about privacy controls, so marketers must educate people, ideally more elegantly, about tracking
controls.
The challenge will be to achieve stricter
controls
without beggaring the world economy or inflaming national rivalries and racist sentiment.
The rise of nationalism prior to the outbreak of World War I led to the widespread introduction of passports and ushered in stricter
controls
on the international movement of people.
Within a few weeks, the Islamic State has virtually eliminated the entire Shia Muslim and Christian populations from the lands that it
controls.
No matter how strong the EU’s external borders are – though, of course, better monitoring and patrolling measures are needed – the flow of migrants will continue to overwhelm their capacity, endangering the openness that is so fundamental to European unification, beginning with the Schengen acquis, which guarantees freedom of movement, without border controls, among 26 European countries.
Hamas must be a part of any lasting solution to the Palestinian issue, not just because it won democratic elections, but also because it
controls
the Gaza Strip and has real influence in the West Bank.
Later on, some or all of these losses were recouped through successful lobbying for renewed subsidies and import
controls.
Most Chinese debt is held in renminbi; the country possesses massive foreign-exchange reserves of close to $3 trillion; and capital
controls
are still effective, despite having been eased in recent years.
In this context, selective capital
controls
and careful reserve management can help to stabilize the balance of payments and ensure that the terms of trade do not change too fast to be offset by productivity growth.
Second, China’s central bank still
controls
interest rates by enforcing a roughly three-percentage-point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.
Li Peiyang, the head of a state-owned firm that
controls
several airports, and Zeng Chengjie, a prominent real-estate developer, are just two of the Chinese executives who have been executed in recent years for white-collar crimes such as fraud, bribery, and embezzlement, none of which caused death or injury.
In 2013, tensions peaked when China unilaterally declared an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering territories in the East China Sea that it claims, but Japan
controls.
But, given the inability of participating states to control their borders with non-EU countries, Germany and other Schengen members have temporarily reinstated
controls.
At a time when Europe is struggling to boost productivity and competitiveness, reinstating border
controls
would come as a serious blow.
Individual countries like Greece have limited incentive to invest in
controls
insofar as refugees are only passing through.
It promised to deal with credit and fiscal excesses while ruling out capital
controls.
The fourth option is to impose capital
controls
on inflows (or liberalize
controls
on outflows).
Leaving aside the issue of whether or not such
controls
are “leaky,” evidence suggests that
controls
on inflows of short-term “hot money” do not affect the overall amount of capital inflows.
Thus, such
controls
are ineffective in reducing short-term cyclical pressure on the currency to appreciate.
However, direct
controls
on credit growth, while necessary, are often leaky and not very binding in practice.
By relying on some 110,000 foreign state and non-state actors to maintain a hold on the small portion of Syria that he still controls, Assad’s regime is much like his military: a shadow of what it once was.
In the American zone the process was slower and
controls
were stricter than in the British zone, where local politicians were soon entrusted with power.
But the military still
controls
many ministries and a quarter of the seats in parliament.
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