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This article studies the relationship between the changing political economy of labor in China and its potential influence over the US market economy through the production and financial connections between the two jurisdictions across the Pacific. At the macro level from the aspect of international political economy, it is argued that globalization has aroused further social changes in China by encouraging internal labor migration, foreign investment and the rule of law, while retrenchment of the party-state faces development from the entrenchment of a globalized civil society movement, along with the internationalized corporate governance and its production structure, which introduces international social and production norms to China, while also delivering the Chinese labor reality to the external world. Meantime, at the enterprise level, widely ignorance of the Chinese labor law and the coalition between the capital and local governments sustain the labor rights violation activities, ranging from employment discrimination against labor migrants, gender inequity at workplace, to deliberate neglects on occupational safety and health. Bad labor treatments partly sponsor the cost subsidies on the global production chain and keep the US inflation at a low level. However, the evolution of the rule of law in China bears the potential to raise the rights consciousness among workers and initiate more industrial actions against the employers. Moreover, joint efforts from the Sino-US civil society and legal practitioners tend to bring the information of law and rights violation in China to the US through shareholder litigation, which targets at MNCs by working with union-controlled pension funds, the media and other stakeholders, so that the US shareholders and consumer movement can realize the labor practices of MNCs and their subcontractors in China and add downward pressure to the stock prices of the listed companies in the US. Therefore, a positive linkage among labor rights in China, union practices and the financial market performance of the MNCs is about to be established, and it can not only influence bad labor treatments under the global production chain, but also contain the power of a decentralized Chinese predatory state over its working population by holding the state behaviors responsible economically, through international financial and product markets. As globalization creates new channels of exploitation, it also offers innovative leverage power over such practices. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the past decade, China has been experiencing phenomenal rates of economic growth. Its continuing development, however, is closely tied to its ability to keep its goods competitive in the international market. Thus, China has kept the value of its currency comparatively low by exporting many of its profits to the industrialized world. In particular, China has used some of its excess financial gain to purchase American treasury instruments and other American dollar assets. This has helped to finance the growing American national debt. China is one of the United State?s major creditors. At the same time that China is helping to artificially maintain the American economy, the US is engaging in security policies which seem to cast China as a threat to American hegemonic power. Considerable time and energy has been spent in the US in evaluating China as a potential threat, and a great deal has been written on how and when the US should respond to this perceived threat. The paradoxical relationship between the US and China is the subject of this paper. In particular, the paper evaluates the mutually-reinforcing economic relationship of the two countries and attempts to evaluate how this affects the evolving security relationship. Theoretically, the paper compares realist and liberal approaches to these questions with more complex constructivist arguments. The paper argues that the US perception of itself as the premiere world power is coming into conflict with the China?s perception of itself as a relatively weak country that is only now starting to attain the level of global prominence that it deserves. These self-identities strongly influence the operation of economic and security factors when the two states assess how to deal with each other. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In my paper, I will examine the strategic logic of U.S. China policy and evaluate its feasibility. U.S. governments and the advocates of engagement policy have argued that the economic and institutional integration of China into international community an ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]