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China Unveils New Framework To Stimulate Cross-Border Data Flows: Risk or Opportunity for Multinational Companies

By Nigel Cory & Zhiwei Chen on January 14, 2025
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As Foreign Investment in China Shrinks, China Unveils New Framework to Stimulate Cross-Border Data Flows: Risk or Opportunity for Multinational Companies?

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Nigel Cory

Nigel Cory is a director with Crowell Global Advisors focusing on cross-border data flows, data governance, intellectual property, and how they each relate to digital trade and the broader digital economy. Nigel has provided in-person testimony and written submissions and has published reports

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Nigel Cory is a director with Crowell Global Advisors focusing on cross-border data flows, data governance, intellectual property, and how they each relate to digital trade and the broader digital economy. Nigel has provided in-person testimony and written submissions and has published reports and op-eds relating to these issues in the United States, the European Union, Australia, China, India, and New Zealand, among other countries and regions, and he has completed research projects for international bodies such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and the World Trade Organization. Nigel is a member of the United Kingdom’s International Data Transfer Expert Council and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Data Free Flow with Trust Expert Community.

He previously covered trade and digital policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Nigel also previously worked as a researcher in the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to that, he worked for eight years in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which included positions working on G20 global economic and trade issues and the Doha Development Round. Cory also had diplomatic postings in Malaysia, where he worked on bilateral and regional trade, economic, and security issues, and in Afghanistan, where he was the deputy director of a joint U.S.-Australia provincial reconstruction team. Nigel holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international business and commerce from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

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Zhiwei Chen is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Shanghai office, where he is a member of the firm’s International Trade and Privacy & Cybersecurity groups. Zhiwei has more than a decade of experience advising multinational clients on a wide range of complex…

Zhiwei Chen is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Shanghai office, where he is a member of the firm’s International Trade and Privacy & Cybersecurity groups. Zhiwei has more than a decade of experience advising multinational clients on a wide range of complex customs, trade, data privacy, and regulatory issues.

Clients benefit from Zhiwei’s experience and insight in managing the risks and maximizing the opportunities associated with China’s increasing regulation of cross-border flow of goods, services, and data. He brings to clients an unusual blend of regulatory, transactional, and litigation experience, which makes him a trusted adviser on various complex China regulatory issues

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