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10/1/2025 China’s EV Supremacy Raises National Security Concerns for the US

Over the past two decades, China has risen from imitator to innovator, advancing rapidly in new energy, robotics, batteries and drones—and related military power. “We can’t block China from technology,” Jim McGregor, chairman of APCO Worldwide, Greater China, told Newsweek. “We can slow them down a bit, but we need to figure out how to get […]

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8/19/2025 How Much Has Trump Changed His Position on China?

President Donald Trump came into office with tough talk on China, including promises to enact huge tariffs on China and erect a new trade regime, “aggressive new restrictions” on Chinese ownership of American land, an end to fentanyl trafficking, and more. Now the White House seems to be softening its tone, and moderating its actions against Beijing. https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/how-much-has-trump-changed-his-position-china

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NYT 12/17/24 Tom Friedman “How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations”

“I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai, meeting with Chinese officials, economists and entrepreneurs, and let me get right to the point: While we were sleeping China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything….China had its Sputnik moment — his name was Donald Trump,” Jim McGregor, a business consultant who

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US-China: Bigger Storms Ahead. Jim McGregor, Chairman Greater China, APCO Worldwide

By now everyone understands US-China relations are at their worst in 50 years. There is mutual distrust. And mutual animosity. China complains bitterly that America is trying to keep it down. America, meanwhile, is wary of China’s new-found aggressiveness. Are the world’s two most powerful countries heading for a showdown? If so, how should companies

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The Wire China: Flying High / America’s favorite small plane company, Cirrus Aircraft, has thrived under the ownership of a Chinese SOE. But with an IPO set for Hong Kong, can it continue to soar?

“We have had an iconic American technology and airplane created right here, in aMidwestern town, with a huge pocket of very good jobs,”says James McGregor, aDuluth native who lived and worked in China for three decades and was an advisorto the city during the AVIC acquisition.“AVIC has made a success of it — and Ican’t

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The Wire China: Barriers to Exit / The risk of not being allowed out of China is adding to the list of concerns for foreign business people operating in the country.

But for James McGregor, a China-focused business consultant who lived in China for three decades and moved back to the U.S. during Covid, visiting China is still worth the risk. He departed this week for a month-long trip to China, and says it’s important for the overall U.S.-China relationship for business people like him to

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