Came upon an excellent article in Prospect Magazine, thanks to the China Bystander’s post entitled, “Getting Off The Bottom Rung In India And China.” China Bystander had this to say on the article, itself entitled, “The Silicon Valley of China“: Here is one of those snapshot statistics that throws into sharp relief an entire economy,… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: December 2007
China Traffic Laws As Government Policy Writ Large. Channeling Benjamin Cardozo
Posted in Legal NewsWikipedia defines a tort as follows: Tort is a legal term in common law jurisdictions referring to a civil wrong recognized by private law as providing a cause of action justiciable in the courts and entitling the injured party to a remedy, usually damages. The term ‘tort’ does not refer to causes of action based… Continue Reading
More US China Flights Announced
Posted in China TravelThe US Department of Transportation (DOT) just announced its award of additional U.S.-China passenger flights for 2009, granting flights to US Airways, American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines. US Airways will fly between Philadelphia and Beijing, American between Chicago and Beijing, Continental between Newark /New York and Shanghai, and Northwest between Detroit and Shanghai…. Continue Reading
China’s New Labor Law. Still Coming. Still A Big Deal.
Posted in Legal NewsVery good Los Angeles Times article on China’s New Labor Contract Law, set to go into force on January 1. The article is wrongly entitled, “New workers’ rights being undermined in China.” I say “wrongly entitled” because though the article focuses on a few violent acts against labor activists, it is way too early to… Continue Reading
China’s Software Piracy Declining Ever So Slowly
Posted in Legal NewsReuters article just out on Microsoft’s successes in reducing piracy in China and thereby increasing its revenue. The article notes how Microsoft “is seeing the benefits of more stringent intellectual property policies in China, with a decline in piracy rates and improved results at its mainstay Windows division.” It also notes that China is “by… Continue Reading
Dot.com Bust Redux? China Style?
Posted in Recommended ReadingVery good, very interesting, article in today’s Washington Post by Ariana Eunjung Cha, entitled, “Tech Boom Sweeps China, But Some Sense a Bubble.” General thesis is that there are plenty of good places in China for venture capital (VC) funds to put their money, but valuations are sky high right now: Some fund managers are… Continue Reading
China’s Mao School Of Business.
Posted in China BusinessI just finished The Little Red Book of China Business, a book written by Sheila Melvin. Ms. Melvin called me a few weeks ago, told me of her book and asked if I would be interested in reading it. I told her I would, but that I was highly skeptical of its thesis: that understanding… Continue Reading
China Corruption. It’s A Guy Thing?
Posted in Legal NewsRead an absolutely fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal on Gambian airline safety. The article is entitled, “In Africa, Aviation Woes Defeat a Zealous Watchdog,” and its focus is on apparently trumped up corruption charges against aviation reformer, Ms. Maimuna Taal-Ndure. Gambian Solicitor General Henry Carrol, “described Ms. Taal’s indictment as an “action of… Continue Reading
41 Chinese Companies Are Changing The World
Posted in China BusinessBoston Consulting Group just came out with a report entitled, “The 2008 BCG 100 New Global Challengers: How Top Companies from Rapidly Developing Economies Are Changing the World” [pdf]. Written by Marcos Aguiar, Arindam Bhattacharya, Laurent de Vitton, Jim Hemerling, David C. Michael, Harold L. Sirkin, Kevin Waddell, Bernd Waltermann, Kim Wee Koh, the report… Continue Reading
China’s Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch Blog
Posted in Recommended ReadingJust read a post on the Asia Business Intelligence Blog, entitled, “Recommended Blog: China’s Scientific and Academic Integrity Watch.” The post is on the Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch, which is a blog laser focused on plagiarism in China’s scientific and academic community. The blog has taken on the crusade against plagiarism in China, made… Continue Reading
Time Magazine’s Top Ten New “Architectural Marvels.” China Gets Three.
Posted in China TravelTime Magazine article by Richard Lacayo lists “The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels” and China gets three places, all in Beijing. In order: NEW 1. Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo., by Steven Holl Architects. 2. Federal Building, San Francisco, by Morphosis 3. Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, by Marion… Continue Reading
Barack Obama Returns To Reality. Retreats From Chinese Toy Boycott Call.
Posted in Good PeopleThree days ago, I did a post, entitled, “Barack Obama On China. Say It Ain’t So . . . .Oh But It Is,” in which I went after Barack Obama for calling for the United States to ban Chinese toys. In that post, I wondered “whether Mr. Obama completely fails to understand world trade or… Continue Reading
CCTV: Steve Dickinson On China’s Grassroots Democracy
Posted in China BusinessGot the following email yesterday from a client: When I checked into my old, Soviet-style Moscow hotel the other night, I was tired from a day of Aeroflot and decided to surf the TV for something to numb my brain. The only English-language channel on the hotel’s TV was CCTV9 from China. The first image… Continue Reading
China Trademark Law: Simple And Effective
Posted in Legal NewsEarlier this year, I wrote an article for the Alaska Bar Rag (I am an Alaska Bar member!) on China’s trademark laws, mostly extolling how necassary it is to secure such a trademark and how relatively simple it is. Nothing much in the article that we have not been saying here for years, but since… Continue Reading
Getting Into China: Ooh, Ooh, Baby, Things Are Gonna Get Easier
Posted in China TravelThe Guardian’s Breaking News section has just announced that beginning next month visitors to China will no longer need to fill out health declaration forms to enter China. In addition to this, beginning on February 1, 2008, “people with no goods to declare will not have to fill in customs forms when either leaving or… Continue Reading
China Food = Slow Poison
Posted in Recommended Reading“China Being Poisoned by Its Food Industry, Says Author“. Read it.
China Product Costs: The Whole Enchilada
Posted in China BusinessJust came across a new and very good China sourcing blog which for me (I am sorry to say) is the equivalent of a kid coming across a new candy store. The blog is called Source Juice and it is written by the following: Guys and Gals from the US and China in the technology,… Continue Reading
Time Global Business: Cool Chart But Where’s The Beef?
Posted in China BusinessThe Wall Street Journal had a giant ad today announcing Time Magazine’s new Global Business section so I checked it out. As my kids would say, “lame.” There is very little there beyond one really cool chart. The chart is based on the World Economic Forum’s 2007 Global Competitiveness Report and it lists the percentage… Continue Reading
Barack Obama On China. Say It Ain’t So . . . .Oh But It Is.
Posted in China BusinessBarack Obama has called for a BAN on Chinese toy imports into the United States. My first thought upon hearing this was that there must have been some mistake. Now that I realize Mr. Obama actually said this, I am left merely to wonder whether Mr. Obama completely fails to understand world trade or if… Continue Reading
Fake Pens In China Write/Writ Large
Posted in Legal NewsVery interesting LA Times article on China’s fake pen business (h/t to IP Dragon who does a consistently amazing job ferreting out China IP stories). The Times’ article is entitled, “Fake pens write their own ticket: The art of making writing tools goes back far in Wengang, China. Now counterfeiting branded products is a fine… Continue Reading
Blogging For A Harmonious China.
Posted in Recommended ReadingEyes East has up a most impressive post, entitled, “Citizen journalism for an unharmonious world.” The post is on the role citizen journalists and bloggers play in getting out the news in and from countries with a less than rigorous/vigorous media. It is an excellent post and it concludes with what I see as its… Continue Reading
China’s New Labor Law Gives SOME Employers The Jitters
Posted in Legal NewsNicely balanced article out in today’s Guardian on China’s new labor law, set to come into effect on January 1, 2008. The article is entitled, “New Chinese labour law give employers the jitters,” but it essentially concludes that while it will raise employee costs, it will have only a marginal impact on foreign direct investment… Continue Reading
China’s Danone-Wahaha Fight — The Law Journal Version
Posted in Recommended ReadingRegular readers of this blog know the Danone-Wahaha battle to be one of our favorite topics, mostly because of the myriad lessons it teaches. I wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on it and Steve Dickinson was quoted on it in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and then gave… Continue Reading
Learning Mandarin As Waste Of Time?
Posted in China BusinessThe Economist ran an article a few weeks ago on how learning Mandarin is highly overrated. A couple readers asked me what I thought of that article, but I actually never saw it until today via the Here Comes Everybody Blog, which, in a post entitled “What’s Happening at the Economist?” rightfully takes the Economist… Continue Reading
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