The Effect of a Political Conflict on Young Chinese Consumers’ Boycott Behaviour: The Case of U.S.-China Trade Dispute

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1191-1205
Author(s):  
Sun Ae Shin ◽  
Jinkwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Trade Dispute ◽  
China Trade

Globalization and U.S. Corporate Tax Policies: Evidence from Import Competition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Chen ◽  
Chen Lin ◽  
Xiang Shao
Keyword(s):  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Transfer Pricing ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Import Competition ◽  
Tax Policies ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Trade Dispute ◽  
China Trade ◽  
Tax Reduction

This paper studies how globalization affects the corporate tax policies of U.S. manufacturing firms. Using U.S.-granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations as a quasi-natural experiment, we find a significant increase in tax reduction activities for firms facing higher exposure to Chinese imports. The effect is more pronounced for firms with higher managerial slack. We also find that the effect is stronger for firms in less diversified products market and faster changing industries. We also show that U.S. firms facing higher Chinese import competition are more likely to engage in other tax-motivated activities: acquisition of subsidiaries in low-tax regions and suspected transfer pricing. Furthermore, we explore the 2017 tax cut and the recent U.S.-China trade dispute and find that firms engage less in tax reduction activities after the 2017 tax cut and after the tariff increase for Chinese imports. This paper was accepted by Kay Giesecke, finance.

Reframing news by different agencies

Babel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 847-866
Author(s):  
Weixin Zeng
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Mainland ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Trade Dispute ◽  
News Agency ◽  
China Trade ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Event

Abstract This study aims to investigate how news reports are reframed and how a stance is in turn mediated in the process of translation by news agencies in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan when they cover the same news event. A database is built from 50 reports on the US-China trade dispute, half from Reference News (RN), a news agency based in Chinese mainland and the other half from Liberty Times (LT), a media outlet in Chinese Taiwan, as well as their corresponding source texts from foreign news agencies. The results show that the reframing practices in the two agencies vary from each other in framing the US-China trade dispute and the image of China and America. The overall pattern of stance shift in the translation by RN is towards a pro-China/anti-US direction while in the translation by LT towards a more anti-China/pro-US direction. These might be caused by the political stance of the news agency, the media environment and the relationship with the United States.

The anti-annuity payment campaign, 1934–6

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (135) ◽  
pp. 306-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Trade Dispute ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
Central Characteristic

The retention by the Fianna Fáil government of the land annuities in 1932 and the consequent trade dispute with Great Britain, the ‘economic war’, is a subject extensively covered in the existing historiography, both in terms of the diplomatic and economic facets of the dispute. Opposition by the opponents of Fianna Fáil to the collection of land annuities has been well documented in the context of the political conflict between supporters and opponents of the treaty. Another trend in the historiography has emphasised, as the central characteristic of the anti-annuity payment campaign, the opposition by farmers to the payment of annuities on economic and social rather than on political grounds. Paul Bew and others have argued that large farmers supported the Blueshirts during the ‘economic war’ for material reasons; Mike Cronin has argued that the crisis of the ‘economic war’ encouraged opposition to de Valera’s policies among farmers, rather than pro-Treaty political considerations; and Andrew Orridge has also argued that the anti-annuity payment campaign included both a political element, in the form of Blueshirt hostility to Fianna Fáil, and a non-political element, on the part of farmers protesting at how their dependence on agricultural exports to Britain was threatened by Fianna Fáil policies.

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