With Censorship and Nationalism, Beijing Puts International Investors in Tight Spot
Beijing is censoring unbiased business news while promoting anti-West bloggers
Chinese journalists work on their computers during the G20 meeting in Chengdu, in western China's Sichuan Province on July 23, 2016. Observers say that the digitalization of journalism and the emergence of social media have done little to increase press freedom in China, as Chinese regime rapidly moved to impose censorship on new platforms. Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images
International investors will find investing in China harder given the censorship of respected business news, and the state-fueled rise of communist nationalism.
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).