This brief adopts a neo-institutional approach to derive some generalizations about how China’s policies are enforced, why enforcement remains such a problem, and what foreign firms can do to meet the challenges provided by China’s enforcement regime.

In particular, the brief draws on the protection of intellectual property rights to illustrate the following.

Competition policy and law, appropriately implemented and enforced, are essential to the optimal functioning of a market-orientated economy.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has gone through a period of staggering economic growth, unprecedented in world history, averaging nine per cent over the past two decades.

Analysis of the patterns, causes, and prognosis for dispute resolution.