Managing U.S.-China relations is “the biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century. This Article explores a crucial, delicate part of that test: national security review of Chinese foreign investment. To address emerging threats from China, Congress passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review...

Foreign capital plays a key role in a nation’s economic development. Accordingly, foreign direct investment (FDI) is viewed as a driving factor for economic growth. Since the establishment of China's Free Trade Zones (FTZs) in 2013, investors and the government alike have failed to fully...

The “rule of law” (ROL) is invoked by multinational institutions, Western governments and in China as a political expectation of what legitimate governance looks like. Chinese leaders regularly make claims that are translated into commitments to uphold the ROL, and they generalize this...

BackgroundAs a crucial component of solar radiation, the association between exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation and acne remains unclear.ObjectivesTo investigate the association of previous exposure to ultraviolet radiation at different wavelengths or doses with acne in college...

Alginate like extracellular polymers (ALE) recovered from excess sludge have been evaluated as an eco-friendly, cost effective and sustainable alternative to highly valued materials. However, the ALE extraction from flocculent sludge ranges normally from 90 to190 mg/g VSS, which is only...

Phosphorus shortage and pollution are two significant societal and environmental problems for human beings. Thus, this study presents a novel process to efficiently recover phosphorus from dimethoate-containing wastewater on the basis of a three-dimensional hierarchically porous carbon (3D HPC )...

This Article reports the first ever empirical study of how Chinese- owned businesses in the United States utilize contract clauses to choose dispute processes. As a large and recent source for foreign direct investment in the United States, China presents an interesting case study of whether...

The “in-house counsel movement” of the past few decades, with its far-reaching implications for the legal profession, the legal service market, and corporate governance, has attracted a great deal of academic attention. Few scholars, however, have examined the global expansion of emerging...