China Securities Journal

weighted average cost of capital (WACC) plus premiums for additional risk factors. During the past eight years, the WACC of most U.S. companies has been in the range of 7% to 9%, which is about 3% to 5% lower than it is in those emerging markets such as China and India. Research led by Gregory V. Milano and Jeffrey L. Routh suggested that companies should use lower hurdle rates while investing in growing nations. According to their research, hurdle rates are simply set too high by some companies because

citizens and people can improve their life quality by using these goods. According to Li & Yao (2009, p. 1995), electrical appliances are becoming popular because of urbanisation. For example, air conditional owner-ship is rapidly growing up in China. Some families even have more than two units. From this evidence, it can be showed that urbanisation brings more modernised goods such as air conditioners to citizens. Citizens can access these useful goods more easily and they are able to live a higher

General concept of security communities In accordance to the global political theory, the idea of forming a security community was initially established by Deutsch in 1957, with the dominant purpose of promoting a “sense of community “ that believes in the concept of “peaceful change”. In a further elaboration, the emergence of such communities have integrated individuals in a group, allowing social problems to be resolved effectively in a peaceful manner via institutionalized procedures, without

Data Security and Mobile Devices Introduction: Mobile devices such as smartphones, PDAs, tablets, and netbooks have become an integral part of everyday business operations. Millions of people log into their company’s secure network on mobile devices via wireless Internet or even accessing their email, making sensitive data more susceptible to data theft and hacking. Mobile technology is advancing at such a fast pace, making it harder for IT managers to keep up with newly emerging threats. Since

of the Internet. With the world connected, cyber actors represent a very real and often underestimated threat to the United States’ ability to defend national security, protect industrial innovation, and secure privacy information. As a result of globalization, the foreign cyber actors represent the most imminent threat to national security, corporate innovation, and citizen privacy rights. The first age of globalization took place during the mid-19th century with the repeal of the Corn Laws and

accompanied by poets. He ordered to translate a lot of traces written in Greece, Latin and Arabic into Turkish language. Source: Adnan Mohhamed Somi, M. M. (n.d.). Muhammed Al Fatih role in building the Islamic civilization in the era of the Ottoman Empire. China. 2.4 Cared for science and building schools AL Sultan Muhammed Al Fatih was taking care of science and Schools. He organized the school's system and divide it into levels and stages. He put the curriculum and chose the learning units at each stages

proposal Sanctuary Soft, a young started up security software company in United Stated is planning to expand to overseas due to the need of providing the worldwide service to its client and the pressure by its shareholder. After the meeting between the company’s CEO and larger shareholders, they are distressed in whether stay in the US market or expand overseas. The four potential countries favour by Sanctuary Soft in its expansion plan included China, India, Germany and United Kingdom. In order

Cooperation In Intelligence Sharing Between the U.S. and China on Anti-terrorism War Abstract: With the globalization of the terrorism activities, it is necessary and urgent for the U.S. to seek for cooperation in intelligence sharing with countries other than the past allies such the UK and Europe. From 2013 China has started to establish activities fighting with the terrorism after being attacked by two horrible terrorism assaults. Besides, China has always had a close economic and trade relationships

What are the main risks to cyber security and are states or non-state actors the main challenge? Word Count 1188 Cybercrime is a serious issue that the international community faces today, with risks such as theft, espionage, surveillance and sabotage, a very real and accessible threat exists. Cyber security can be defined as a cyber activity that may threaten the security of a system or its information (Threat report 2015). There are various state and non

2. US-China trade patterns Evolution of US trade relations with China. China has been transforming into a rapidly growing economy ever since the trade reforms began in 1979 and upon its further entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001 as the 143rd member, China’s trade liberalization and global trade commitments made at that time augmented the expansion in U.S.-China marketable ties (Morrison, 2015). The most significant clause of this WTO enterprise that proved to be beneficial