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February 13, 2007
U.S. Treasury's New Point Guard for Economic Talks with China
Mr. Paulson has chosen Alan Holmer, a negotiator without China knowledge or experience, to "run the US-China strategic economic dialogue." After many years of dealing with Americans who deal with China, I fail to comprehend how the American businessman, other than the mere buyer of a commodity product, continues to assume that success can be had in any foreign nation without substantial knowledge of it.
One hopes that Mr. Holmer will prove himself to be incredibly persuasive, resourceful and manipulative. But he is a curious choice when there are more than a handful of highly-trained negotiators with China-specific expertise. He could be ripe pickings for an excuse when Mr. Paulson's initiatives to move China fail to budge it.
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Hi Richard,
Why didn't they ask somebody with experience like you? In fact, why didn't they ask you? Or did they? ;)
Cheers,
IP Dragon
Gathering, commenting and sharing information about IP in China to make it more transparent, since 2005
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at February 13, 2007 4:07 PM
Hi, Dragon, nice hearing from you --
Oh, no. Why? Because they don't need me -- they've surely got the talent and the expertise somewhere in DC or already on the ground in China. So -- why isn't the appointee at the top willing to make use of it at the highest levels of decision-making?
Rich
Posted by: Editor, Asia Business Intelligence at February 13, 2007 5:20 PM
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