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ASEAN's Liberalization of Legal Services: The Singapore Case
This article examines the liberalization of legal services in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ("ASEAN") within the framework of the ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN's free trade agreements. Although trade in legal services is important to ASEAN's goal as a "single market and production base," the article challenges the weaknesses of ASEAN's legal services liberalization. It then explores Singapore's experiment on the regulations of foreign law firms and foreign lawyers, which have become substantially liberalized in the past decade. The article argues that while Singapore may serve as a positive example, ASEAN countries should be cautious of the gap between Singapore's legal framework and the actual practice of foreign law firms. By analyzing the Singaporean concepts of Formal Law Alliances, Joint Law Ventures and Qualifying Foreign Law Practices, the article provides recommendations for ASEAN governments and legal communities for liberalization in the legal services sector.
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Trade Dilemma of Global Hegemony: Analyzing the Transition in US Trade Policy from Globalization Deals to Hybrid Deals
In: Chinese journal of international review, Band 6, Heft 1
ISSN: 2630-5321
This paper presents an analysis framework of the trade dilemma faced by global hegemony. It argues that maintaining global hegemony and addressing domestic conflicts simultaneously is a challenging task. Since the 1980s, the United States has prioritized the expansion of transnational capital, often at the expense of domestic vulnerable industries and the interests of low-skilled workers. This unbalanced development has led to intensified social contradictions within the United States. To resolve these conflicts, the US has shifted from reciprocal globalization deals to self-interested hybrid deals, aiming to uphold the interests of transnational capital while also addressing the concerns of workers. The negotiation experiences of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) demonstrate this mode of the US trade policy. While this strategy may repair the domestic political foundation, it leads to new challenges for the US, such as discontent and resistance from the international community, or encountering difficulties in promoting cooperation with US trading partners. These challenges will pose a threat to the long-term stability of the international economic order.
"Bang Bang Bang" – Nonsense or an Alternative Language? The Lingualscape in the Chinese Remake of I Am a Singer
In: China perspectives, Band 2019, Heft 3, S. 3745
ISSN: 1996-4617
Land use dynamics driven by rural industrialization and land finance in the peri-urban areas of China: "The examples of Jiangyin and Shunde"
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 45, S. 117-127
ISSN: 0264-8377
The Chengzhongcun Land Market in China: Boon or Bane? — A Perspective on Property Rights
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 282-304
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractWith the rapid expansion of China's cities since the 1978 economic reform, more and more villages have been swallowed up by urban sprawl. The retention of collective land ownership in chengzhongcun has, on the one hand, made low‐rent housing affordable for migrants; on the other hand, however, it has exposed chengzhongcun to many social, economic and environmental problems. Based on a case study of chengzhongcun in Guangzhou, and using an analytical framework of property rights, this article has found that maintaining collective land ownership in chengzhongcun has been socially and economically costly, but a redevelopment strategy without a complementary affordable housing scheme may be problematic. In order to solve the problems of chengzhongcun, an institutional reform of collective land is required.Résumé Les villes chinoises s'étant rapidement étendues depuis la réforme économique de 1978, un grand nombre de villages a été absorbé par les tentacules urbains. La préservation d'une propriété foncière collective dans les chengzhongcun a permis que les migrants accèdent à un logement à loyer modéré, tout en exposant cet habitat à de multiples problèmes sociaux, économiques et environnementaux. S'appuyant sur l'étude de cas du chengzhongcun de Guangzhou et sur un cadre analytique de droits de propriété, cet article montre que le maintien de la propriété foncière collective dans le chengzhongcun s'est révélé coûteux sur le plan social et économique et que, par ailleurs, une stratégie de réaménagement sans un système de logement complémentaire accessible pourrait être problématique. Résoudre les problèmes du chengzhongcun appelle à une réforme institutionnelle des terrains collectifs.
The Chengzhongcun Land Market in China: Boon or Bane? - A Perspective on Property Rights
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 282-304
ISSN: 0309-1317
Impacts of Transport Projects on Residential Property Values in China: Evidence from Two Projects in Guangzhou
In: Journal of property research, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 347-365
ISSN: 1466-4453
The Future Relationships Between Mainland China and Taiwan
This thesis is a study of the possible future developments of the Taiwan issue and the relationships between Mainland China and the island of Taiwan. After examining all the alternative scenarios, the author predicts that in the foreseeable future political and economic cooperation between Mainland China and the island of Taiwan will gradually increase, with avoidance of military confrontation, but complete reunification between Taiwan will not occur, nor will Taiwan become a legal state. The author will examine evidence, including both domestic factors in the two parts of China and external factors, which may either reinforce the above prediction or pose other alternatives. The first part of the thesis, therefore, will examine in detail these factors, based on government policy positions and the evolution of events from 1949 to the present. Particular attention will be given to developments associated with the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s and further developments in the post-Cold War era. The evidence, up to the present, shows no clear indication that other alternative futures can be ruled out, and other possibilities will be examined in detail. In conducting the research, the author will examine previous works by scholars, journal articles, unclassified documents, and other sources such as the media, including TV, Internet, and key newspaper material, both from Asia and the Western world. Other important sources are knowledge based on 30 years of experience in China including formal education and views of professional colleagues in China as well as at Eastern Illinois University. Although future events may prove otherwise, the author is currently convinced that variables are too unstable and are still unfolding in ways that make it difficult to determine which alternatives will actually come true. What we can say is that any substantial progress in resolving the basic controversies between Beijing and Taipei needs time, and that the final solution perhaps will not be reached until the next generation or the generation following it.
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Spatial patterns and their influencing factors for China's catering industry
In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Band 11, Heft 1
ISSN: 2662-9992
Overcoming class anxiety: the art of unintentional subversion in Mao's China
In: Politics, religion & ideology, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 1-20
ISSN: 2156-7697
Self-Cultivation of the Socialist New Person in Maoist China: Evidence from a Family's Private Letters, 1961–1986
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 82, S. 88-110
ISSN: 1835-8535
Sharing Demand Information Under Bounded Wholesale Pricing
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Seasonal effects of pre-aeration on microbial processes for nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 3810-3819
ISSN: 1614-7499
Coordinating a Supply Chain When Facing Strategic Consumers
In: Decision sciences, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 336-355
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTThis article examines the impact of strategic consumers on the efficiency and coordination of a supply chain. We consider a supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a newsvendor retailer selling a seasonal product to strategic consumers, who may choose to wait for clearance sales to maximize their intertemporal utility. Under a prenegotiated supply contract, the retailer chooses retail price and ordering quantity simultaneously. After that, the strategic consumers, who may be heterogeneous in their patience levels, make purchasing decisions. We find that strategic consumer behavior can hurt the supply chain efficiency due to severe double marginalization, and that a simple buyback contract can coordinate the supply chain. Nevertheless, we show that the supply chain does become more difficult to coordinate when strategic consumers are present: the set of buyback contractual terms that coordinate the chain shrinks as consumers are more willing to wait, and the chain profit cannot be arbitrarily allocated between the firms. Contrary to popular intuition, this result implies that the retailer may enjoy some benefit from consumers' strategic waiting. In addition, we find that the retailer's gain is the highest when impatient and patient consumers are comparably mixed in the population.