As a result of the 2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession, states are confronting fierce fiscal challenges and the job market is weak. In addition, the U.S. economy is not recovering as it has in past economic downturns. In response to these increasingly bleak prospects, states have become more aggressive in the global marketplace. Fostering corporate investment from China is seen as one of the major strategies for job creation in the United States. What do you think?

Check my recent article “Chinese Investment and State Economic Development” in the New York Law Journal (Oct. 2011).

Virginia Lt. Governor Bolling & Stuart Malawer, Members of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership