Marina Machado Subject: Case 2 - Coping with Corruption in Trading with China Prof - 24/02/2014 1 - List all the different types of bribes, payments, or favors represented in this case under (a) FCPA, (b) Criminal Law of PRC, and (c) Law Against Unfair Competition of the PRC. Why is each either legal or illegal? Under the FCPA, there are two major types of bribes involved which are extortion and regular bribery. These two types of bribes are somewhat similar but are not the same depending on how they are being demanded for. In the sense that bribery is totally illegal anywhere in the world while extortion is not considered illegal in some counties but it is illegal in the United State.
An example is Some practical considerations of taking legal action against a foreign business based in another country are whether the have patent law and trademark laws. Factors that could work against CadMex decision to grant sublicensing agreements are lack of patent rights and did not go through the proper court process in Candore. When the local customs and laws conflict with customs and laws of an organization operating abroad the local law and customs should be prevail because that is where the contract was based. The host country should have manufacture rights. For example if the United States and China goes into a contract in regards to Chinese traditional attire and there is a dispute the Chinese should win because it is, a part of their tradition and the United States assumed the risk.
The difficulty here is that for Shen “’I’ had often been identified with another ‘bad’ word, ‘individualism,’ which has become a synonym for selfishness in China.” And that “individualism’ have had negative connotations in my [Shen] mind.” These barriers that were set up by the Chinese ideology, made it hard for Shen to be his true self. While writing, the challenge for Shen was to abandon his Chinese ideologies and adopt an English identity to properly express himself. Mellix on the other hand, is able to be herself and write about the topic on mind. Though she also has to shut out a part of herself, the Black English, it is not like Shen’s situation where he has to change ideologies whenever writes, you get the feel that Shen knows that English
People’s attitude towards the use of standard and non-standard English varies depending on their upbringing, culture and subjectiveness ass the two forms of English are different in purpose and are context dependent. The use of non-standard English can be to save time due to its ease in its construction and can also enable communicating ones beliefs and culture. However unlike non-standard English, Standard English make it difficult for interlocutors to build closeness due to it mainly being used to convey prestige, power, formality and professionalism. Due to the advancements in technology, many people have shifted from once using Standard English to now using non-standard English majority of the time. Since Standard English is usually time consuming to construct and difficult to use, people find it easier to use non-standard English, where the governing rules and grammar are more flexible making it efficient and easy to use.
China is a Cyberthreat to America Many Americans believe that China is a cyberthreat to America. A cyberthreat is defined as the possibility of a malicious attempt to damage or disrupt a computer network or system. There is a number of reasons many American citizens and government officials feel threatened by China. If China ever successfully hacks into Americas data base systems,there would be a major economic downfall. But some also think that the threats are due to Americas weak cyber policy.
(Eko, Kumar, and Yao) While it has proved to be relatively easy to provide and translate this information for global use, some nations are more welcoming of the information than others. With this ever increasing amount of content available through the internet, individual governments are finding it necessary to impose forms of control in order to censor what their citizens are able to access. Censorship in China has a long history; from the executions of Confucians and burning of their books by the Qin Dynasty of Imperial China to the strengthening of the Chinese Communist Party’s ideals during the Cultural Revolution. (Caso) Censorship was used as a way of governing exposure to non-preferred information. It is a practice often utilized by authoritarian governments during times of political crisis to deter dissent and collective action against those
Great Britain forced China to open its gates to other countries to trade and diplomats to reside in this mysterious land. Thus, began the very happening that the Chinese feared: western influence seeping into Chinese culture. Ideas and customs of western countries began to impact the ways of thinking for the Chinese. Some vehemently believed in old Chinese customs and completely rejected anything else remotely west. Some, mostly the younger generation, believe that Westernization was not only a positive notion, but necessary for their country to survive.
This has also affected the local media like radio stations, TV stations, and | | |newspaper. By having it available online and people are no longer having to pay as much
And accuracy further reduces speed. With up to 7.8% of tested sites being wrongly blocked you begin to wonder if Conroy is trolling. And of course with such dodgy plans for censorship, there is a strong opposition. Also opposing the filter is internet superpower Google. They comment that "moving to a mandatory ISP filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such material (child abuse and terrorism) is heavy handed and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information."
Adler College Gurabo, PR U. S. History Essay I Angel R. Pérez 11-1 Professor Ruiz August 27, 2013 The opening to China 1839 – 1844 The opening to China symbolized the U. S.’s attempts to expand westward. The opening itself was very dissimilar to the Japanese, since the Chinese were willing to do so. But it wasn’t only the Americans, the British and other European powers sought China for products because of their great deal of products to choose from. The Chinese on the other hand, were getting less interested in western products as westerners to Chinese products. This disinterest led to a chain of events that led the U. S. to gaining power in China.