Among the growing tensions and the escalation trade war between the United States and China, international business travelers may be understandable that they travel to the Chinese continent. The US Department of State currently has travel consulting at level 2 for China, instructed by visitors about “being more cautious” due to “arbitrary enforcement of local regulations”.
The reality on earth is more complicated. Although there have been cases of detention of US citizens, output bans and raids on foreign company offices in China, for the immense majority of travelers, a trip to the country is as usual. Each week there is 50 flights in both directions directly from the USA to China, and in some cases China has facilitated obtaining business visas.
But this does not mean that there is no risk, and these risk should be pagged especially by those who can end in the sight of the Chinese government.
“This is a less friendly environment for Americans than in 2010,” says Isaac Stone Fish, general director and founder of the Risk Strategy, Business Intelligence company oriented on China.
When Stone Fish sees how the comments of people working in global and American companies are registered, he tends to optimism about traveling to China and the environment. “But when you have private conversations with them,” he says, “they are much more pessimistic, and a journey to China during a business trip is more difficult than before.”
It wasn’t long In the fact that China greeted the swelling of foreigners and international business companies and travelers on their borders. On August 8, 2008, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing was a breakthrough moment in China’s relations with a wider world. Guests at the National Stadium, also known as a bird nest and directed by House of flying daggers Film creator Zhang Yimou, the event had a budget of $ 300 million and presented 15,000 volunteers, including 2,008 choreographed drummers.
The packed stadium contained leaders from around the world, including US President George W. Bush and the then Russian Minister Vladimir Putin, and about 2 billion people watched this event on television.
One of the topics of the game was “Beijing welcomes you”. China was consistent. Despite the emerging global economic crisis, the country’s GDP in 2008 reached $ 4.42 trillion, i.e. 9 percent of the year to year to year. Foreign companies were in a hurry to operate in China. Apple stores have been opened in gigantic cities throughout the country to sell computers produced in Chinese factories. Hollywood films stuck in Chinese stories into megabudish films to display films in Chinese theaters. It was the dawn of a novel era.
And so the world thought. In 2012, XI Jinping, an official of the Communist Party and the Son of the Party Staff, became the Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party, and in the following year he was appointed the seventh president of this country. Under the leadership of XI, China turned inside. He started huge anti -corruption campaigns to eliminate enemies and saw the creation of a huge supervision regime to monitor the population. Relations with Western nations referred, and when Donald Trump won the presidency of the US in 2016, they were even more weakened. Empitricians left businessmen in crowds, accelerated by Coronavirus pandemia in 2020 and the strict policy of “Zero Covid”.