Managing Risk as a US Business in China, with Sean Stein

China Voices: The AmCham Shanghai Podcast

This week we talked with former US Consul General in Shanghai Sean Stein. After stepping down from his post last year, Sean now serves as a senior advisor at international law firm Covington & Burling.

Sean joined us on the show to discuss some of the biggest risks US businesses in China face right now and what strategies and scenario planning executive teams can use to mitigate that risk, including on issues such as the threat of consumer boycotts and disruptive export controls. Sean also offers his perspective on how companies, as well as the US and Chinese governments, can build and maintain public trust in both countries, and why the way firms characterize their China operations to US audiences matters.

Finally, Sean talks about why cooperation between the US and China should be aggressively pursued when possible, and why he thinks people need to pay more attention to what Chinese officials are reading if they want to know where policy is headed.