Xinhua just reports that, in an effort to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, Beijing’s municipal government is making condoms “more accessible in its hotels, nightclubs and construction sites[???]:” Guesthouses, hotels and scenic resorts are all required to put condoms in toilets, and night clubs, bathing centers and major construction sites should have condom-selling vendors installed. The… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: March 2008
China Children Getting All Stressed Out
Posted in Recommended ReadingAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Check out this article in the China Daily, entitled, “http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2008-02/15/content_6458887.htmMental Health Master Plan,” on the stress China’s children face from parents who want them studying constantly and reading only that which is prescribed by adults (h/t One-Eyed Panda’s Journal). This has to impact innovation/independent thinking,… Continue Reading
Beijing As Second Hand Smoke
Posted in China TravelI make it a point to leave it to others to write about air pollution in China from a non-legal perspective, but this one from the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 Blog is just too good to pass up. Seems those who say breathing Beijing air is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day are… Continue Reading
Getting To And Around Shanghai Pudong International AIrport’s Terminal 2
Posted in China TravelCN Reviews has a great summary on getting to and from Pudong’s Airport’s new terminal and on going between the terminals. Very useful.
China Products: Quality Costs Extra
Posted in China BusinessPaul Midler’s always excellent China Games blog just did an interesting post, entitled, “Survey: Testing Affects Price,” on the correlation between price and quality in China. The post is on how prices quoted for Williams Loft, a distributor of mattress products, rose after Williams Loft made clear it would be verifying quality: The company [Williams… Continue Reading
China As IP Paradise
Posted in Legal NewsA loyal reader just sent me an email asking me what I think of a China Daily article, entitled, “Courts see surge of foreign-related IPR cases.” I think the article is a good reflection of what is really going on in the world of China IP. The article has the usual Chinese government induced fluff… Continue Reading
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Chinese Consumers
Posted in Recommended ReadingThough I know very little about marketing (and even less about marketing to China’s consumers), I know enough to know that Mastercard’s “Brand Preference of the Chinese Affluent“[pdf] is chock full of helpful information and — by extention — great insight into the Chinese consumer. If you are selling a product or service in China… Continue Reading
China Suburbanization Writ Large
Posted in Recommended ReadingTime Magazine’s Shanghai correspondent, Bill Powell, (also of Time’s China Blog) did a great story, entitled, “The Short March,” on his family’s move to a Shanghai suburb (h/t to The Yuan Also Rises). Good article on the suburbanization of China, but even better article on how growth affects China and on why continued growth is… Continue Reading
China Counterfeiting. Just One Among 1.3 Billion.
Posted in China BusinessThe PN China Blog recently posted on counterfeiting and poor quality products in China. The post is entitled, “A Monumental Blacklist” and it discusses why Chinese companies so frequently and confidently engage in unfair business practices (including counterfeiting) and what needs to be done to stop it. The post starts out answering “why unethical business… Continue Reading
Made In China: Es Tu Zegna?
Posted in China BusinessThe Wall Street Journal has a story out today that reinforces my contention that while low end manufacturing (what I call rubber ducky type products) is declining in China, higher end manufacturing is booming (see my posts here and here) The story is entitled, “China’s Challenge to Italy Now, a Rival to European High-End Suits,”… Continue Reading
Chinese Law Is Not An Ass, At Least For Western Companies.
Posted in Legal NewsThe Off The Record Blog (a really good blog, BTW) just did a short, sweet, blunt post on the law in China that is only half right. The post is entitled, the “The Law is an ass and there you have it.” It consists of the following quote from “a prominent Chinese lawyer during a… Continue Reading
China Business/Investment Law And Child Rearing: A Lot Of Gray
Posted in Legal NewsChina Vortex did an interesting post on how foreign companies do and should react to Chinese laws. The post is entitled, “Working the Gray Areas in China,” and it starts out quoting “Chinese entrepreneurs” saying that if they were to wait until the Chinese government said they could do something, they would never be able… Continue Reading
China HR = Worldwide HR.
Posted in China BusinessVeteran China hand, David Dayton, of Silk Road International, did a post a while back on the effectiveness of international management practices in China. The post is based on an article on Phys.org, entitled, “Multinationals in emerging China should stick to their own ways of managing,” and subtitled, “When it comes to breaking into the… Continue Reading
China: Arbitrage, Capitalism, And Cabbage. Happy Days Are Here Again.
Posted in China BusinessHow to Solve Inflation 101 (h/t to Shanghaiist).
China Manufacturing Moving To Madagascar
Posted in China BusinessEarlier today, I posted on how China is still the place to manufacture all but the lowest end products. That post is entitled, “Goodbye China. Good Morning Vietnam. I Don’t Think So, Part II.” As is par for the course on this blog, I received a number of excellent comments. These comments raised new issues… Continue Reading
Goodbye China. Good Morning Vietnam. I Don’t Think So, Part II
Posted in China BusinessExperience Not Logic has a nice post, entitled, “China’s Manufacturing Competitiveness Is at Risk”: Sort Of,” on the recently published Booz Allen/AmCham Manufacturing Competitiveness report, somewhat wrongly titled, “New Challenges for Foreign Producers: ‘China’s Manufacturing Competitiveness Is at Risk.” This report affirms what I said previously in my first post in this series: My own… Continue Reading
Returning Substandard Products To Your China Factory: In Another Lifetime, Brother.
Posted in China BusinessDavid Dayton at Silk Road International Blog did a post on a topic near and dear to my heart, “Returning Products to a Factory in China” (h/t to Source Juice). I deal with this issue quite often when Western companies seek my law firm’s assistance in securing a refund for bad product from a Chinese… Continue Reading
China M&A Done Right
Posted in Recommended ReadingNothing earth shattering or even new in this article, but “Dealmaking in China: Getting In on the Action,” by George D. Martin at Faegre & Benson LLP and Dave Sampsell, associate general counsel at ADC Telecommunications, Inc., does an excellent job setting out where mergers and acquisitions (M&A) will be going in China and on… Continue Reading
Managing The Dragon: More To Know. More to Learn.
Posted in Recommended ReadingPaul Denlinger (of China Vortex) just did a guest review of the book, Managing the Dragon, on Lost Loawai, which book I glowingly reviewed last week, in my post, “Managing The Dragon. The Best, Jerry. The Best.” Paul provides some excellent insights on the book that are very much applicable to doing business in China… Continue Reading
The Dirt Under The Fingernails Of “Modern” China
Posted in Recommended ReadingBrilliant and insightful (two different words that still seem redundant) piece by Robert Kagan on how despite its gloss of modernity, entitled, “Behind the ‘Modern’ China.” (h/t to China Digital) China is still rife with “19th-century” ideas: China can go for great stretches these days looking like the model of a postmodern, 21st-century power. Visitors… Continue Reading
Beijing Olympics — You Want Jail Time With That?
Posted in Legal NewsThe Absurdity Allegory and China (AAC) blog makes an excellent legal point in its recent post, “Breaking Eggs in the Bird’s Nest.” The post is on a March 21, 2008 State Department fact sheet concerning the 2008 Olympics. This fact sheet has received its fair share of coverage from the blogosphere for warning visitors to… Continue Reading
World Sneezes: China Avoids A Cold
Posted in Recommended ReadingInteresting article in Business Week (h/t to China Challenges) entitled, “World Sneezes, China’s Just Fine: Economists say a global slowdown will largely spare a mainland economy still based on domestic consumption and cushioned by vast cash reserves.” Article says much of China’s economic growth comes from increasing domestic consumption, which will not be much influenced… Continue Reading
China And US Agree: Let’s Kill All The Lawyers.
Posted in Legal News“Let’s kill all the lawyers.” William Shakespeare. Okay, so we lawyers are not the most loved people in the world, though US surveys consistently show that though the overwhelming majority of people dislike lawyers, they overwhelmingly like their own lawyers. Surveys also show everyone likes me. I do not know how whether Chinese companies dislike… Continue Reading
China Sex, Prostitutes, Rule of Law, Lines of Power, Unintended Consequences and Bull Connor: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words. Redux
Posted in Legal NewsI made a rule for myself many years ago that whenever I was too in love with something I wrote, I needed to run it by someone else. I made this rule because usually when I fall in love with my own writing, it is because I think it is just SO clever. Yet, one… Continue Reading
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