Disappearing court documents. Restricted access to data on ships and supplies. China closes off details about what’s happening inside the country.
Strict Covid-related, including canceled flights and weekslong quarantines, have added a drastic drop in face-to-face interactions between Chinese citizens and the world, compounding the disconnect. Airlines carried around 1 million people in and out of China over the first eight months of 2021, down from almost 50 million over the same period in 2019, according to data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Authorities are ambiguous about what constitutes sensitive information, adding uncertainty for Chinese companies over what they can share with foreign partners. The lack of data increases the risk of scams and fraud for companies looking to do business with China, he said. Mr. Dickinson added he also had trouble accessing China’s trademark and corporate databases and other Chinese websites from his office in Seattle, resulting in the firm hiring a team in China to do Chinese due diligence and intellectual property work.
Last year, with prices of coal creeping higher in China, privately run commodity-pricing providers stopped publishing daily prices and data about Chinese stockpiles. In August, China’s Ministry of Education published data showing it had terminated 286 cooperative programs between Chinese and foreign universities in 2018 and 2019, saying some of the programs didn’t meet the teaching and instructional standards of the ministry. Schools in the U.K., Russia and the U.S.
Jia Qingguo, former dean of the School of International Studies at Beijing’s Peking University, noted the stricter academic controls in a plea he submitted at China’s annual legislative meetings in March. He added that some government departments had taken measures to tighten management over “various considerations,” without specifying what they were.
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