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Bonnie Girard
Bonnie Girard is President of China Channel Ltd. She has lived and worked in China for half of her adult life, beginning in 1987 when she studied at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing.
Bonnie Girard has lived and worked in China for half of her adult life, beginning in 1987 when she studied at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing. In 1996, after nine years in China and having worked for European multinational telecommunications companies in their China sales and operations throughout the country, she founded China Channel, the first independent consultancy providing due diligence for foreign companies coming into the Chinese market. In the years since, Bonnie, British husband and partner Roland Evans, and her colleagues in China have handled China issues for clients as diverse as Lloyd’s of London, IBM, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and Brunswick Bowling.
Bonnie is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been responsible for the negotiation and implementation of over $1 billion worth of contracts in China, and is a frequent speaker on Chinese business and political issues. Bonnie grew up in Washington, D.C. and Virginia, in a family long active in government, foreign service, academics, and journalism. She handles all of her personal and professional business in China in Mandarin Chinese. She can be reached by email here, and on Twitter at @BonnieGirard.
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June 30, 2022
Assimilation: China’s Failed Strategy in Xinjiang
By Bonnie Girard
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May 25, 2022
Xinjiang Police Files Show Xi Jinping’s Personal Involvement in Uyghur Persecution
By Bonnie Girard
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April 29, 2022
Xi Jinping Suffers From the Putin Effect
By Bonnie Girard
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March 30, 2022
The Cost of the War to the China-Ukraine Relationship
By Bonnie Girard
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February 25, 2022
Nixon Goes to China: The Wider Impact
By Bonnie Girard
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December 30, 2021
A Real String of Pearls: The Hidden Bellwether of the State of the Chinese Economy
By Bonnie Girard
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December 01, 2021
Even Duterte Can’t Get Around the Thorn in China-Philippine Relations
By Bonnie Girard
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October 29, 2021
Work Drinking in China Comes Under Fire
By Bonnie Girard
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September 30, 2021
China’s AUKUS Response Highlights Beijing’s Bunker Mentality
By Bonnie Girard
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August 31, 2021
Fentanyl in America: A Barometer of the China-US Relationship
By Bonnie Girard
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August 23, 2021
China and the Taliban: What to Watch
By Bonnie Girard
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