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What to Know About Traveling to China for Business


Recent developments and an escalating trade war have made travel to cities like Beijing challenging but by no means impossible.

Hosted in the National Stadium, otherwise known as the Bird’s Nest, and directed by House of Flying Daggers filmmaker Zhang Yimou, the event had a reported budget of $300 million and featured 15,000 volunteer performers, including 2,008 choreographed drummers. The packed stadium contained leaders from across the globe, including US president George W. Bush and Russia's then-prime minister Vladimir Putin, and an estimated 2 billion people watched the event on television. Foreign executives express growing concerns about doing business there, fearing potential exit bans, pervasive government surveillance, risks to sensitive data, even arbitrary detentions.

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