Reality on the ground is more complicated. While there have been cases of possession of US citizens, outgoing prohibitions and incursions on offices of foreign companies in China, for the vast majority of travelers, a trip to the country is as usual. Every week there are 50 round -trip flights directly from the United States to China and in some cases China has made it easier to obtain company views.
But this does not mean that there are no risks and those risks should be weighed above all by those who could end up in the sights of the Chinese government.
“It is less a welcoming environment for Americans compared to the years 2010,” says Isaac Stone Fish, CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a business intelligence company focused on China.
When Stone Fish sees comments on the record by people who work in global and US society, it tends to see optimism on the trip to China and the environment there. “But when you have private conversations with them,” he says, “they are much more pessimistic and traveling to China on a business trip is more demanding than before.”
It was not long It means that China welcomed a swollen number of foreigners and businesses and international business travelers, beyond its borders. On August 8, 2008, the opening ceremony of the Beijing summer Olympics was a watershed moment in the Chinese relationship with the largest world. Hosted in the National Stadium, otherwise known as the bird’s nest, and directed by House of Flying Daggers Director Zhang Yimou, the event had a reported budget of $ 300 million and had 15,000 volunteers artists, including 2,008 choreographed drums.
The crowded stadium contained leaders from all over the world, including the President of the United States George W. Bush and the then Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, and it is estimated that 2 billion people have watched the event on television.
One of the games of the games was “Beijing welcomes you”. China was ascending. Despite the emerging global economic crisis, the country’s GDP in 2008 reached a growth of $ 4.42, or a growth of 9 % on an annual basis. Foreign companies hurried to do business in China. Apple stores have opened in the main cities of the whole country to sell computers made of Chinese factories. Hollywood films trampled on Chinese plots in megabudget movies that aim to project films in Chinese theaters. It was the dawn of a new era.
Or at least so the world thought. In 2012, Xi Jinping, an official of the Communist Career Party and son of a party group, became the secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party and the following year he was appointed seventh president of the country. Under the guidance of XI, China turned inwards. He launched vast anti -corruption campaigns to eliminate enemies and saw the creation of a vast surveillance regime to monitor the population. Relations with Western nations suffered and when Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States in 2016 they led to further. The expatriate entrepreneurs started with droves, accelerated by the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic and the rigorous “Zero Covid” policy of China.