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陆续地大家都结束了自己的春节爽假投入到工作中去，今年高考的孩子们将要回校，大学也迎来了新一轮的毕业季。
作为英语专业毕业的我现在一家美资托管银行分公司做风险合规，三年多的工作中，接触到的同事或多或少也有留学以及国外公司工作经验背景。在这样的大环境下就想来聊一聊在外企学‘英语’。想给英语专业的学生，应届毕业生，或者想去外企打拼的朋友一些参考。
但其实你会发现，我们即将讨论的已经不是只有‘英语’这一项语言技能，还包括可借鉴的工作方式，思维转化，生存技能等等。
‘英语’在外企的重要性
有没有在面试时因为英语口语不过关而错失了进入外企的机会？
简历中你可以说自己的英语很proficient，但proficient是一个考验全方位技能的词。所以你的proficiency程度到底是如何？
1. 无障碍沟通，完全理解同事的需求/问题，随时解答在座同事的疑问；
2. 听得懂同事们的对话，但是概括能力不强，表达不清；
3. 对同事抛出的问题似懂非懂，答非所问，并不能当场解决提出的问题；
4. 不清楚同事们在说什么项目，进展如何，问题在哪，需要怎么解决，大佬们的看法。
……
我接触过很多中文表达流利但是因为英语欠佳的同事，有些甚至工作10年，但每次开会只会重复一些相似的重点，或者因为逻辑的缺陷，并不能使自己的说法用充分的证据表达清楚，甚至混用不同背景的case搞得在座的manager们一头雾水；公司很多场合都有老外在场，或者使用电话会议，很多时候因为语言沟通的问题，使得会议效率并不能达到理想的效果，从而会有‘拖堂’的情况。
所以，英语的重要性在哪里？
初阶，它是一项工具，让你能高效看得懂繁琐的文档，政策和沟通文件，使沟通交流变得高效，增强理解力；等到了高阶，它就是一门艺术，它会让你学会如何用语言艺术去谈判，提升自己在岗位上的逼格。
英语练级打怪
如何学习英语，想必每个英语专业/爱好英语的朋友都会有自己不同实践方法，但万变不离其宗，这一项技能都会围绕着词汇，语法，听力，表达，写作这几项。
这几项，词汇是听力，表达以及写作的基础，但这是练级上面来说；从工作实践来说，表达是最基础的，包括口头表达和书面表达。每天有大大小小的会议，时不时还需要你做一个工作update和analysis，或者需要你做份综合性的report，之后让你在不同场合做debriefing。
这个升级打怪的过程并非一蹴而就，需要你日积月累饱读诗书的前提下，还要勇于表达自己的想法。当然认真工作这个因素已经不用考虑，是默认的每人兼备的品质。
不积跬步，无以至千里；
不积小流，无以成江河。
板块设置
我们的想法其实很简单，需要在外企这样的环境中最大化地实现自己的价值。我们将通过不同板块，让你了解外企，在外企中更高效地学习英语。
今天先不多说，献上一篇CNN报道中美经济英文。
（P.S.新闻的阅读在外企工作中十分必要，每天浏览各个部门的announcement或者newletter，快速帮助你提炼必要信息）
Why tech secrets, not steel, could cause
the real clash between the U.S. and China
Steel and aluminum tariffs aren't the only explosive trade issue between the United States and China.
Stolen trade secrets are also poised to become a flash point as the United States weighs how to transform President Donald Trump's tough
talk on China into policy.
The Trump administration opened an investigation into intellectual property theft by China in August. Officials have more recently signaled that an announcement on next steps is imminent.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross called high tech the "next area of challenge" with China. Trump teased a "very big intellectual property fine" against China in a recent interview with Reuters. IP theft was even name-checked in Trump's State of the Union address.
But defending intellectual property is a notoriously thorny issue — and any push from Washington runs the risk of retaliation from Beijing.
"As with every administration, there seems to be a
range of options on the table from the extreme to the modest," said William Reinsch, a trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who also served in the Bill Clinton administration. "What is different is I think this president is more inclined to the extreme."
Why we're talking about tech secrets
Chinese intellectual property theft from U.S. businesses has been an area of concern for years, both because of its security ramifications and its cost to companies.
IP theft includes the sale of counterfeit goods and pirated software, as well as stolen corporate secrets. It costs the American economy between $225 billion and $600 billion per year, according to the 2017 report from the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, a group co-chaired by former U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman.
The issue has become a particular point of contention as hina works to remake its economy, shifting from low-end industry into high-tech incubation.
"China has gotten increasingly concerned that it's not going to be able to survive as the low cost manufacturer to the world," said Phil Levy, a fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs who previously served as a trade adviser to President George W. Bush.
In 2015, China formally announced its intention to be a technology leader in a state industrial plan called "Made in China 2025." Priorities include ramping up domestic production of electric cars and developing a premier 5G mobile network.
China also plans to dominate in the field of artificial
intelligence by 2030 and is rapidly expanding its capacity to make computer chips.
To achieve these goals, China needs a lot of industrial and technological know-how — which is where the country's interest in foreign intellectual property comes in.
How intellectual property theft happens
Cybertheft has been less of a problem since President Barack Obama received assurances from Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015 that China would stop hacking corporate trade secrets.
The prevailing concern now is the fact that companies are forced to transfer technology in order to do business in China, according to experts.
China typically requires companies that want to enter the country to pair up with domestic firms in joint ventures. Such partnerships can give Chinese companies access to information that foreign companies would otherwise keep private.
"In order to play in that market, you have to disgorge information [and] you have to make it available to local operators," said Brian O'Shaughnessy, an attorney who specializes in IP law at the law firm
Dinsmore & Shohl.
In June 2017, China enacted a law that tightened
restrictions on cross-border data transfers and mandated that critical data be stored locally. The Chinese government framed the law as an effort to shore up cybersecurity, but critics see it as further means for China to monitor and control online information.
"Companies could be asked to submit source code to the Chinese government under the auspices of a security review," said Samm Sacks, a senior fellow in the Technology Policy Program at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies. "But in doing so, they risk revealing their IP."
Such policies and arrangements have built up skepticism among American companies that are otherwise eager to tap into China's massive market.
More than 80 percent of members of the US-China Business Council, a leading trade organization for American companies that do business in China, said they're concerned "about China's policies on data flows and technology security," according to a 2017 member survey.
To comply with the new data law, Apple (AAPL) said in July that it will store the iCloud data of mainland customers with a state-owned company in Guizhou. In November, Amazon (AMZN) Web Services sold the hardware it uses for cloud storage to its local Chinese partner to satisfy the new rules.
The next steps
Experts say it's not clear how the Trump administration's intellectual property investigation into China will play out.
There's one scenario in which President Trump takes a more restrained route, opting to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization once the investigation is complete.
Concerns over trade violations are typically taken up with the WTO from the start, so that course would help normalize the situation at hand.
But Trump could also decide to act unilaterally, citing the scope of the IP theft problem and the need for harsh penalties.
That could mean dramatic restrictions on Chinese investment in the United States, or tariffs on a wide range of consumer products, without the WTO's blessing.
Such moves would shake the global trading system — and would be impossible for China to ignore.
At a press conference in January, China Commerce Ministry spokesperson Gao Feng criticized the United States' decision to launch the investigation via domestic laws, thus circumventing the WTO.
"If the U.S. insists on adopting unilateral protectionist measures no matter what, and hurt China's interests, [the Chinese government] will take necessary measures to firmly uphold China's legitimate rights
and interests," he said.
If Trump goes big on tariffs, the U.S. economy would be affected, too.
"A [U.S.] retaliation sufficient to change China's
conduct would be so large as to significantly injure both the United States' and China's economies," said Matt Gold, an international trade law expert at Fordham University. "So one questions whether that's the most effective way to go about this."
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