17.02.2020
Professor Julien Chaisse, Associate Member of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, explains that large South Korean firms have been gradually withdrawing from China for a number of years and have been able to leave on a managed basis. They are leaving to avoid a repeat of the political crisis that ruined Lotte’s China business, and to avoid tariffs on exports of their China-made products to the US. Read the full article here: Finbarr Bermingham and Lee Jeong-ho, “How the trade war led to Samsung and other South Korean companies' exodus from China”, South China Morning Post, 17 February 2020 <https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3017110/samsung-and-other-south-korean-firms-exodus-china-example>.
