At least you’ll get some common sense from reading this rather than trawling through elliptical China articles / statements etc
HEARING ON THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN CHINA: PRESENT CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL FOR REFORM
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
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Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners William A. Reinsch and Deniel Slane
8:30 am – 8:45 am Co-chairs’ remarks: Commissioners William A. Reinsch and Daniel Slane
8:45 am – 9:45 am Administration Panel: Assessing the Interface between China’s Competition and Technology Licensing Policies
Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC (Testimony)
Mark A. Cohen, Special Counsel, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC (Testimony)
(Testimony)
9:45 am – 11:15 am Panel I: Industry Perspectives on the Foreign Investment Climate
Oded Shenkar, Ph.D., Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management, The Ohio State University (Testimony)
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D., President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, DC (Testimony)
Dan Harris, Founder/Partner, Harris Moure, Seattle, WA (Testimony)
11:15 am – 12:45 pm Panel II: The Legal and Regulatory Context for China’s Competition Law Enforcement
Abbot (Tad) Lipsky, Jr., Partner, Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang, Ph.D., Principal, Charles River Associates, Boston, MA (Testimony)
William Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Director, Competition Law Center, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC (Testimony)
Written statement from Gil Kaplan, Partner, King & Spalding, Washington, DC
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch Break
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Panel III: Evaluating the Impact of China’s Reforms on the Foreign Investment Climate
Lucille Barale, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University School of Law, Washington, DC
Joshua Eisenman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs, Austin, TX; Senior Fellow for China Studies, American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC (Testimony)
Scott Kennedy, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Freeman Chair in China Studies and Director, Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC (Testimony)
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