THE CHINA FACTOR BOOK
THE CHINA FACTOR: Leveraging Emerging Business Strategies to Compete, Grow & Win in the New Global Economy
Based on Karam's experience competing with Huawei at Cisco, where she led a competitive intelligence and global sales support program, The China Factor is a guide for companies to understand how the Chinese do business and equips Western companies with strategies to successfully compete in today's rapidly changing global markets. It also provides new innovation models to serve emerging markets and to protect and evolve the West’s innovation advantage.
PUBLISHED BY WILEY
Endorsements
“The China Factor is right on the mark. It addresses a real need, one that very few others are tackling - the action that US and other Western–based companies can take in response to the China challenge.
Global competitiveness is a huge problem for the West and companies are ill–prepared.
The China Factor goes beyond what other books do, providing an important, insightful, and practical prescription on how companies can shift their strategy…”
– KEN WILCOX, Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank
Speaker's Reel - Amy Karam
GLOBALIZATION, INNOVATION & CHINA EXPERTISE
The global business world is shifting with the rise of China and other emerging countries. Amy Karam is a dynamic, engaging and authoritative speaker on how your company needs to adapt, evolve, and change the way you do business, compete and innovate in order to survive and thrive. She is also an educator for Stanford and Duke's professional education centers as well as her own courses and workshops.
Develop your Cultural IQ, become innovative at innovation and change your game to win.
TEDx Talk
TEDx Talk : The Key to Global Economic Growth 2017
- Why is the US-China US-world trade wars happening?
- Are tariffs the answer?
- Is the Innovation Advantage of the West threatened by China's rise (and others)?
Amy anticipated and began warning about the current global trade chaos back in 2017. In her TEDx talk, she explains how the West got into this global trade mess, discusses why protectionism is not a productive long- term strategy, and predicts solutions for success, including a 'Co-opetition' approach - cooperative competition.
media & publications
The Hill Times, May 18 2025
A 5G Action Plan for Canada: Learning from Britain, Working with the United States Part 2 - Jan 5, 2
Canada’s 5G Challenge Goes Beyond Huawei: It’s Time to Take the Initiative Part 1 - Dec 29, 2021
Canada's biggest problem is bigger than Trump, he only popped the bubble that Canada was living in,
The Hill Times, May 2025
Canada’s 5G Challenge Goes Beyond Huawei: It’s Time to Take the Initiative Part 1 - Dec 29, 2021
A 5G Action Plan for Canada: Learning from Britain, Working with the United States Part 2 - Jan 5, 2
Canada’s 5G Challenge Goes Beyond Huawei: It’s Time to Take the Initiative Part 1 - Dec 29, 2021
The lesser-discussed and greater challenge concerns economic security, global competitiveness and Canada’s weak disposition around innovation.
A 5G Action Plan for Canada: Learning from Britain, Working with the United States Part 2 - Jan 5, 2
A 5G Action Plan for Canada: Learning from Britain, Working with the United States Part 2 - Jan 5, 2
Canada and its Western allies need a new playbook with which to compete with China and succeed in the evolving global economy.
BNN Bloomberg Sept 27, 2021
UK Parliamentary Committee Interview
Free market “failure” led to Huawei 5G dominance: Policy expert
Free market “failure” led to Huawei 5G dominance: Policy expert
Free market “failure” led to Huawei 5G dominance: Policy expert
Carter Center, Washington DC, Sept 13, 2021
Carter Center, Washington DC, Sept 13, 2021
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Institute for Peace and Diplomacy
Policy Paper for Cdn Global Affairs Institute, think tank
Institute for Peace and Diplomacy
Podcast with KPMG
Policy Paper for Cdn Global Affairs Institute, think tank
Institute for Peace and Diplomacy
July 16, 2020 In this podcast, you’ll hear from KPMG in Canada’s Joy Nott and Amy Karam, a Global Competitive Strategist with Karam Consulting discuss the current and future issues in trade and customs globally and within Canada.
Policy Paper for Cdn Global Affairs Institute, think tank
Policy Paper for Cdn Global Affairs Institute, think tank
POSTED ON POLICY PERSPECTIVES BY CANADIAN GLOBAL AFFAIRS INSTITUTE STAFF · JUNE 03, 2020 4:48 PM
THE HILL TIMES
Why Bell, Telus want to pick Huawei for 5G networks, despite debate over security concerns The Hill Times, June 8, 2020
BNN Bloomberg, The Street
BNN BLOOMBERG, The Real Economy
BNN BLOOMBERG, The Real Economy
BNN BLOOMBERG, The Real Economy
Canada needs to turn a new leaf on foreign policy BNN Bloomberg Sept 26th, 2019
THE HILL TIMES
Vancouver Sun
Huawei quandary highlights Canada's lack of unified economic security strategy
Amy Karam: Huawei quandary may be wake-up call for Canada, Vancouver Sun Decf 19, 2019
GLOBE & MAIL
OP-ED: Instead of playing defence against Huawei, Washington must make it a ‘frenemy’
- Globe and Mail, June 18, 2019
Using 5G, Huawei, Cybersecurity to Increase Canada's Global Competitiveness and Economic Security
BLOOMBERG MARKETS
BLOOMBERG MARKETS
Bloomberg, Canada needs to move from defence to offence on Huawei, 5G: China expert, May 13, 2019
CPAC
BLOOMBERG MARKETS
5G Cybersecurity Concerns from a Security, Technical and Commercial Perspective. The Shift From Defence To Offence: Developing a “Co-opetition” Strategy To Leverage Canada’s Advantages In 5G Investment, July 16, 2019
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