Over his years in China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Zhang Handong has seen how the country’s embrace of market competition has dovetailed with national industrial policy. In a keynote address to GCR Live Singapore: 6th Annual Asia-Pacific Law Leaders Forum, Zhang, who heads the NDRC’s price supervision and anti-monopoly bureau, explained how that relationship has evolved, and how the country’s antitrust enforcement regime has worked to ensure government policy avoids distorting competition
At the 2017 GCR Live Asia Law Leaders conference in Singapore, enforcers from some of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ most crucial jurisdictions gathered to discuss the progress of ASEAN and the future of trade, both in the region and globally. Here, we reproduce a part of that conversation, focusing on the growth of competition law in Asia, and the region’s reaction to the rise of nationalism in the West
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