Dr. B.C. Sun Copyright © 2007 B.C.

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Reflections of an Economic Strategist & China Advisor

I was born and bred of Shanghainese and Indonesian-Singaporean parents in full-score orien-
tal classics and dialects but otherwise within very limited means in a small Chinese village. I
graduated from college in America and Europe, began my career on Wall Street, New York,
and moved on to work in Asia Pacific, Beijing, London, and Logan in the next three decades.
Since childhood, I have had the privilege of receiving first-class training on joyfully turning
resource scarcity and crisis situations into opportunities for innovation. I owe my accom-
plishments to the Creator. He gave me the experience of a well-travelled executive at the
world’s leading financial institutions and strategy consulting firm. I am blessed with being
able to also use all my former training and capabilities in my role as an economic advisor.

My expertise and passions include: (1) Global Business and Profit Optimization Strategy; (2)
Chinese Immersion in Business and Education; (3) Diversity as a Unique Competitive Edge;
(4) Character Education in Arts & Humanities; and (5) Economic Behavior Reform Strategy.

As a world citizen and “society scholar” my goal is to anticipate and respond to the challenges
of society. I do so by being an advocate of "Positive Psychology of Threat," an economic moti-
vation theory I developed and tested in my international award-winning PhD dissertation on
Motivation under Uncertainty and Risks. The theory applies in transition economy, which is tran-
sitioning from planned to free economy, and in what I call “regression economy,” which is re-
gressing in the opposite direction, from capitalism towards shelter from risk and innovation.

American society has become a society in debt for a multiplicity of reasons. It is also a society
that has become more diverse than any other in modern history. In view of these challenges
and opportunities, my mission is to promote economic self-reliance as the rock and diversity,
the sling, in enabling individuals to confidently contribute in all sectors of economy and at all
levels of society. By getting ourselves out of debt we can help the nation get out of debt. And
by identifying diversity as a resource and strength, we can make it a unique competitive edge.
In viewing uncertainty as a building block of prosperity, as had America’s founding fathers,
individuals, families, and organizations can all make a difference despite, and in the face of,
uncertainty, when we are reminded that we need one another to become stronger and better.