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Foreign Business Looks Less Favorably on China

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Foreign Business Looks Less Favorably on China
A man walks past the Central Business District in Beijing on May 31, 2023. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Rhetoric—whether from corporate executives or government officials—seldom comports with reality. And seldom is the gap as wide as on the subject of foreign investment in China. Beijing says that it is open for business and welcomes foreign investment when, in reality, it has made doing business in China more difficult than ever.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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