In recent years, China shut down Marriott's website after it listed Tibet and Taiwan as separate countries in a customer survey while it also suspended sign-ups to LinkedIn after the site failed to censor enough political content
Doug Guthrie outside his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 26, 2021. Guthrie, once one of America’s leading China bulls, rang the alarm on doing business there.
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Doug Guthrie spent 1994 riding a single-speed bicycle between factories in Shanghai for a dissertation on Chinese industry. Within years, he was one of America’s leading experts on China’s turn toward capitalism and was helping companies venture East.
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