{"id":29,"date":"2011-12-20T03:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:31:58","slug":"how-china-outsources-regulatory-function-to-walmart-an-example-of-a-lucrative-emerging-market-niche-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/how-china-outsources-regulatory-function-to-walmart-an-example-of-a-lucrative-emerging-market-niche-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"How China outsources regulatory function to Walmart &#8211; An example of a lucrative emerging market niche in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_86\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chinese-Flag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86\" title=\"Chinese Flag\" src=\"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chinese-Flag-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chinese-Flag-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chinese-Flag.png 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">??<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen it, I highly recommend Orville Schell&#8217;s recent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/12\/how-walmart-is-changing-china\/8709\/?single_page=true\">Walmart and China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is quite an interesting story about Walmart, but an even more interesting one about China.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>THE SURPRISE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the fascinating observations on Walmart&#8217;s &#8220;green realignment&#8221;, the story for me here is that:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The Chinese government seems to be happily outsourcing some of the attainment of its policy objectives to a foreign-owned multinational corporation (one cooperating with NGOs, no less)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Barriers are being tacitly removed, and the foreign MNC is achieving success and making money<\/p>\n<p>(3) Human rights and brand negativity issues for the foreign MNC seem largely avoided &#8211; indeed, to an extent, the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Doing (2) and (3) at the same time is a big win for foreign companies in China. At the same time, outsourcing or amplifying the attainment of certain policy goals outside the intra-polity web of relationships can sometimes be more effective for the Chinese central government than using\/enforcing a direct regulatory approach. Read the account of Lee Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Get Green Religion&#8221; meeting to Walmart&#8217;s suppliers in Beijing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen it, I highly recommend Orville Schell&#8217;s recent article on Walmart and China. This is quite an interesting story about Walmart, but an even more interesting one about China. THE SURPRISE Leaving aside the fascinating observations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/how-china-outsources-regulatory-function-to-walmart-an-example-of-a-lucrative-emerging-market-niche-in-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intlstrat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}