International Symposium on

China – Mexico – U.S.: 

Growth Patterns, Economic Relations and the Future ofManufacturing

by

21^st Century China Program and Center for US-Mexican Studies, IR/PS, UCSD

Fudan-UCCenter on Contemporary China

Fudan Development Institute

AsianPacific Center, School of Graduate Studies, ITESM-Guadalajara

Increasing economic and business linkagesbetween China and Latin America create new areas of competition as well ascooperation in the Pacific Rim. The symposium brought together experts from the U.S., China and Mexico to examineeconomic reform and development in China and Mexico, and the three-way tradeand investment relations among China, Mexico and the U.S.  

The symposium heldin January 16-17, 2014 was the first of an annual eventhosted by UC San Diego, Fudan University in China and Tec de Monterrey inMexico.  Among the important questionsaddressed by the symposium goas follows:

·         China-Mexico-U.S. trade and the future of manufacturing in the threecountries

·         Innovation and competitiveness of the three national economies

·         Economic reform and role of state and business in economic growth

·         The role of Chinese and U.S. investments in Latin America

·         The role of U.S. companies in trade relations between China and LatinAmerica

·         NAFTA and China’s trade with the U.S. and Mexico

·         Business, labor and government relations in U.S., China and LatinAmerica or Mexico

·         The role of multi-national companies in influencing the trilateralrelations

·         China and the U.S.-Mexico border economy

The symposium on China – US –Mexico opened on January 16, at UC San Diego, and continued the next day(Jan. 17) in Tijuana, Mexico where ITESM hasa satellite center attached to its businessschool.  The former Mexican ambassador to China Jorge Guajardo gave a keynote speech entitled “Is China the Next Mexico?” Panelists coming from US, China and Mexico madepresentations and heated discussions.

Finally, the participants of this symposium came torecognize the value and necessity of triangle collaboration. The future symposiawill have further and detailed examinationon the issues initiated at this session, includingbut not limited to the policy of foreign investment, labor issues, social attitudetoward foreign investment, and cross-cultural understanding.

Participant list:

Susan SHIRK isthe chair of the 21st Century China Program and Ho Miu Lam Professor of Chinaand Pacific Relations at the School of International Relations and PacificStudies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. She also is director emeritus of theUniversity of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC),and chair of the IGCC International Advisory Board. From 1997-2000, Shirkserved as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia andPacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.She served as the director of IGCC 1991–1997, research director 2000–2006, anddirector 2006–2011. In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the NortheastAsia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a Track II forum for discussions of securityissues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from theUnited States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.

Jorge GUAJARDO serves as Senior Director at McLartyAssociates, where he provides strategic counsel and expertise on Latin Americaand China. Ambassador Guajardo most recently served for six years in Beijing asthe Mexico Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. Ambassador Guajardohas had had an active career in government and significant experience in theprivate sector. Prior to his service as Ambassador to China from 2007-2013,Ambassador Guajardo was Consul General of Mexico to the U.S. in Austin, Texas,and he was a Mexican Congressional candidate in 2003. He previously served asDirector of Communications for the Governor of Nuevo León, Mexico from1997-2000.

Gordon HANSON holds the Pacific EconomicCooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego, where heis director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and has facultypositions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and theDepartment of Economics. Professor Hanson specializes in the economics ofinternational trade, international migration, and foreign direct investment.His current research examines the international migration of skilled labor,border enforcement and illegal immigration, the impact of imports from China onthe US labor market, and the determinants of comparative advantage. In pastwork, he has addressed how immigration and global outsourcing affect the USeconomy, the economic integration of the US and Mexico, the causes andconsequences of global expansion by multinational firms, and the relationshipbetween international trade and the location of economic activity.

Francisco JavierVALDERREY VILLAR is the International Business BA Program Director and fulltime Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, León campus. He holds a PhD inAdministration and Marketing from the Universidad de Valencia. He is the authorof the books “Fundamentals of Marketing” and “Marketing: Concepts andStrategies, both in Spanish”. Some of his publications include “Advertising offoreign companies in China: Lessons for companies coming to the market in thePRC” (Spanish), “When Inter-firm Negotiations Need a Creative Approach”, and“Knowing the new clientele: a look at consumer behavior in Wal-Mart Supercenterin Shanghai” (Spanish).

YANG Zhimin is Professor at the Institute ofLatin American Studies (ILAS) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).Dr. Yang is a Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director of the Department forEconomy, as well as the Executive Director of the Center of Mexican Studies(CMS) at ILAS, CASS. He is also a Professor of the Faculty of Latin AmericanStudies of GSCASS. Dr. Yang is the member of the Editorial Committee ofCECHIMEX Working Paper of UNAM (Mexico) and also the member of China-LatinAmerican Working Group of Inter-America Dialogue (U.S.). His research focuseson Sino-Latin American economic relations, regional integration in the WesternHemisphere and the bilateral economic ties between China and Mexico &Central America in particular.

Richard FEINBERG is Professor of InternationalPolitical Economy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studiesat UC San Diego. Feinberg served as special assistant to President Clinton andsenior director of the National Security Council’s Office of Inter-AmericanAffairs. He has held positions on the State Department’s policy planning staffand worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department’sOffice of International Affairs. Feinberg can comment on U.S. foreign policymatters, notably with regard to Latin America and Asia, and business andeconomic matters.

Juan Antonio ENCISOGONZÁLEZ iscurrently the Director of the Office of International Projects for Research andInternational Cooperation. He holds a Master in Business Administration fromTecnológico de Monterrey, a Master’s degree of International Management forLatin America from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of InternationalManagement-ITESM (Dual Degree). He holds a PhD in Public Policy from EGAPSchool of Government and Politics of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

SONG Guoyou is Associate Professor at theInstitute of International Studies at Fudan University in China. His studyfocuses on China’s foreign economic relations and international politicaleconomy. He is the book author of BalancingSocial Interest and State Security, and Money, Politics, andChina-U.S. Financial Relations. He also published articles on journals such as the WashingtonQuarterly, World Economy and Politics, Contemporary International Relations, and Journal ofChinese Political Science and so on. He was a Fox Fellow at Yale University from 2005to 2006 and did his postdoctoral research at Georgetown University from 2009 to2010.

MA Bin is Assistant Research Fellow of the Center for Russia andCentral Asia Studies. At Fudan University, he is also Assistant Research Fellowat the Center for BRICS Studies and teaches at School of InternationalRelations and Public Affairs. He focuses on political risk, BRICS’ cooperation,and Russian and Central Asian affairs. Now he is a visiting scholar at ColumbiaUniversity.

Clemente HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ is a research professor leader in topics ofinternational economic relations. He holds a PhD in Economics from theUniversity of Arizona. Clemente has been a visiting professor at prestigiousChinese universities (Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Fudan University inShanghai). Additionally, he has taught at the Tecnológico de Monterrey,Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Iberoamericana, CIDE and the Universityof Arizona. He has written books on the subject such as “Asia Pacific Basin.Topics on Economy, Business and Competitiveness.” “Statistical Yearbook ofChina. An Economic Overview.” (2011 in Spanish) (with M. Cervantes, MA Montoyaand RF Montalvo); “The Knowledge-based Economy: the Evolution of the MexicanStates.” (2011 in Spanish) (with A. Molina) and International Economic Policy.

Cristóbal COLLIGNON DE ALBA holds a degree in International Relations fromITESO. He was a guest researcher at the University of International StudiesKanda, Chiba prefecture in Japan. He is currently studying a PhD onInternational Transpacific Relations from the Faculty of Economics of theUniversity of Colima and is a research professor at the Asia Pacific Center atTecnológico de Monterrey. His research interests revolve around the Asia andMexico relations especially on the issues of cultural diplomacy, culturaleconomy and creative industries.

David MARES is Institute of the Americas Chair forInter-American Affairs, Professor of Political Science, and Adjunct Professorat the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC SanDiego. His publications have appeared in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese,Italian and Chinese in journals such as Comparative Politics, InternationalOrganization, Latin American Research Review, Foro Internacional, EstudiosInternacionales and Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad. Professor Mares has been a member of theinternational advisory boards of the Instituto Latinoamericano de RelacionesCiviles-Militares (based in Peru) and the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies atUCSD, and prepared reports for the Carnegie Foundation, the StockholmInternational Peace Research Institute, the Netherlands Institute ofInternational Relations, as well as the Arias Foundation for Human Progress andDevelopment.

David A. SHIRK, Ph.D., joined the University of San Diego inJuly 2003. Shirk’s teaching covers a wide range of subject areas, mainlyconcentrated in comparative politics, international political economy, LatinAmerican studies, and U.S.-Latin American relations, with a concentration inMexico and border politics. He conducts research on Mexican politics,U.S.-Mexican relations, and law enforcement and security along the U.S.-Mexicanborder. Shirk also directs the Justice in Mexico Project(www.justiceinmexico.org), which examines rule of law and security issues inMexico. From 2003-2013, Dr. Shirk directed the Trans-Border Institute, whichworks to promote greater analysis and understanding of Mexico, U.S.-Mexico relations,and the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Daniel LEMUS DELGADO is a research fellow at the Asia Pacific Centerat Tecnológico de Monterrey. He holds a Ph.D. in International TranspacificRelations from the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad de Colima. Daniel isalso Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey since 1996. His recent publicationsinclude the book “Innovation in China” (Editorial LID, 2011 in Spanish) and thearticles “The construction of the image of the Great China and the discourse ofinternational cooperation: the case of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation”,“The Chinese space program as a tool for projecting the image of the GreatChina” and “The ministerial conferences of the Forum on China-AfricaCooperation: The Case of Chinese discourse on cooperation for development”.

YE Ming is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centerfor BRICs study at Fudan University. His research focuses on global valueschina in BRICs and Long-term Prospects of Economic and Trade in BRICSCountries. His recent research studies the track of the Chinese role in GVC andthe difference between China and developed countries.

Yingying ZHANG is currently an associate professor in theDepartment of Management and Organization at CUNEF, Complutense University ofMadrid. She is also director of CUNEF Centre for Knowledge and Innovation (CKI)and serves as Editorial Review Board member at Management and OrganizationReview (MOR). Yingying has been selected as one of six documental projected bythe European Commission on “EU-China: A Success Story 2013”. In addition,Yingying is also author and co-author for several books. Among them are “NoMore Chinese Fairy Tales” (Spanish), “Asian versus Western ManagementThinking”, and “Internationalization of Spanish Firms in China”.

Guillermo ITUARTE is the Director of the Financial ManagementProgram. He holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management andTecnológico de Monterrey. His professional experience has been in MultiplicaAcción Empresarial as managing partner, at Leon’s municipality government asProject Financing General Director, and at Corporación Hipotecaria as ChiefFinancial Officer. His research area is focused in industry competitiveness.

TaiMing CHEUNG isDirector of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) located atUC San Diego. He also leads the institute’s Study of Technology and Innovation(SITC) project. His responsibilities include managing the institute’s track twoprogram, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, which brings together seniorforeign ministry and defense officials as well as academics from the UnitedStates, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia for informeddiscussions on regional security issues. Dr. Cheung is also an AssociateProfessor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS),where he teaches courses on Asian security and Chinese security and technology.Dr. Cheung is a long-time analyst of Chinese and East Asian defense andnational security affairs, especially defense economic, industrial and scienceand technological issues.