Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC)

Interested in what BASC has been up to? Check out our Current Research page. We currently have two areas of research:
(1) The Political Economy of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and (2) ICT, Data Localization and Corporate Governance in the 21st Century.

Berkeley APEC Study Center - Current Research Current Research - (1) The Political Economy of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and (2) ICT, Data Localization and Corporate Governance in the 21st Century.

If you are interested in the business and politics behind China's technology sector, check out BASC RA Christine Jiang's two-part article.

Why China Changed Its Tech Policy (And What It Means For Cybersecurity and Trade) Late last year after the National People’s Congress, China made headlines by deciding to cut foreign-produced technology from all future government purchases. It also drafted its very first anti-terrorism law, which included stipulations requiring...