Yale Online just came out with a very thorough and objective article on China’s new labor law. The article, entitled, “An Uncertain Victory for China’s Workers,” is written by Lyle Morris, of China Economist Magazine. This article gives sets forth a very plausible analysis of the cost impact of the new law: Karen Lin, a… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Everything You Wanted To Know About Nuclear Power In China
Posted in Recommended ReadingOr “nucular,” as President Bush calls it. China Comment (an excellent, relatively new blog) did a pretty amazing post, entitled, “China’s Nuclear Power,” detailing (and that is the right word) China’s nuclear power industry. If you want to know about nuclear power in China, I recommend you read it.
Piss Off China To Please Europe
Posted in China BusinessBlogging for China asks a great question in its post, “Is Fiat Too Clever?” The question posed is whether Fiat used Richard Gere (of acting and T1b*t fame) in its ad to garner publicity and EU love? All seems very plausible to me, except might not Fiat’s apology itself engender EU anger? What do you… Continue Reading
China Real Estate. Does What Goes Around Come Around?
Posted in China BusinessWhen China’s real estate market started heating up a few years ago, Beijing tightened the rules for foreigners buying property. I just read an interesting and quite convincing article, entitled, “Shrinking House Sales and the Fear of ‘Deep Adjustment’ Across China,” the thesis of which is that the value of residential real property in China… Continue Reading
China’s Service Sector Will Reign, Part XVII — Pets, I Say.
Posted in China Business“Dealing with the animals was always fun, but I could no longer stand dealing with their owners.” — Explanation for retiring given to me by a retired veterinarian I know Back when we first started this blog nearly three years ago, I felt somewhat like a voice calling in the wilderness whenever we would tout… Continue Reading
On Getting Your China Cargo/Freight/Product
Posted in China BusinessDHL just came out with its 4th (and probably most important) volume in its “Olympics Memo And Contingency Plan.” (h/t to All Roads Lead to China). This memo does an absolutely amazing job of listing out the rules and changes applicable to cargo and freight and automobiles and trucks and ports and traffic and airports… Continue Reading
China Banking: I Have Two Words For You.
Posted in China BusinessA year or so ago, I was talking with a good friend of mine who has a fairly high level position with one of the big American banks that has spent huge money buying into Chinese banks. I was saying I could not understand why American banks were so willing to put so much into… Continue Reading
Foreign Diplomacy, Beijing In 1974, China Business, Respek, And My Friend George H.W. Bush. It’s Just Life.
Posted in China BusinessTom Plate wrote an interesting column the other day, entitled, “George I: American internationalist,” regarding George Bush’s (the elder) stint in China as Chief US representative to Beijing. The column actually focuses on the book “The China Diary of George H.W. Bush,” recently published by Princeton University Press, which Plate describes as “balanced, prescient and… Continue Reading
China To Prices. “Get Real.”
Posted in China BusinessFor years, whenever someone in the United States would complain about how China was “taking our jobs,” I would mention China was also subsidizing our products. That is changing rapidly. In, “Paying the China Price, The Full Price,” All Roads Lead to China writes on how the real, non-subsidized, price of Chinese goods is starting… Continue Reading
Skateboarding With Chinese Characteristics
Posted in Recommended ReadingVery interesting and insightful article on skateboarding in China, dude. The article is written by college junior, Jonathan Chow, and is entitled, “Skateboarding With Chinese Characteristics.” Its money quote and why the article itself is important is as follows: “Forget soybeans, aircrafts, and pharmaceuticals. Popular culture is America’s most influential export.” It’s tagline is that… Continue Reading
Is China Going Green, Part XV — Environmental Liability Clarified: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Posted in Legal NewsVery important article in today’s China Daily, entitled, “Government targets land pollution to ensure food security.” Far more important than the reason for this targeting is the who and what of the targeting. China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced that the “company which inherits the debts and rights (of the polluter) should shoulder the… Continue Reading
Suing For Access To China Government Information
Posted in Legal NewsThe Chinese Law Prof blog has a fascinating (at least for legal geeks) post on the first Beijing lawsuit to access government information under the Regulations on Open Government Information which came into effect on May 1. Such a case would have been unthinkable even five years ago and the court’s accepting the filing of… Continue Reading
China Investigating Microsoft For Antitrust Violations. We Don’t Think So.
Posted in Legal NewsBy Steve Dickinson Both the English and the Chinese web have been rife with news of a Chinese government antitrust investigation of Microsoft’s pricing of its software products. The reports initially stated the PRC State IP Office was investigating foreign software companies for selling software at higher prices in China than in their home jurisdictions…. Continue Reading
So You Want To Save A Yuan By Moving Your China Operations To __________.
Posted in China BusinessExcellent article by David Dayton up on Smart China Sourcing, entitled, “China prices: Moving not necessarily a solution to rising prices.” (h/t to BizCult) The article very nicely sets out some of the key things (beyond labor and real estate costs) to look at in determining where to locate your business. Just because everything is… Continue Reading
Global (Including China) Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies Webinar. June 19.
Posted in EventsManaging Intellectual Property Magazine will, on June 19 at noon Eastern time (US) be putting on a Free Webinar on Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies, entitled “Global Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies: Tackling Trans-shipment Issues Using Customs and Other Enforcement Techniques.” The scheduled speakers are: – James Nurton, Editor of Managing IP – Paul Rawlinson and Andy Leck of Baker &… Continue Reading
Good And Evil
Posted in Good PeopleFirst They Came…. One of the things that always drives me nuts is when I write something critical of China and a reader points out a similar example in the United States. Fine. It drives me even nuttier when I write something critical of China and someone writes to ask why I don’t write the… Continue Reading
How To Succeed In China Without Karaoke
Posted in China BusinessIn “Singing a Different Song in China,” the Off The Record blog convincingly argues that karaoke is not necessary to succeed in business in China and tells us how to avoid karaoke without jeopardizing one’s business. The post was written to counteract a WSJ article, entitled, “With Karaoke, A Deal in China For a Song,”… Continue Reading
Update On China’s Visa Situation
Posted in Recommended ReadingTravelpod has the most comprehensive analysis of China’s present visa situation I have seen (h/t to ImageThief). It explains the current situation with respect to all sorts of China visas. If you have any questions regarding what it takes these days to secure the various types of China visas, I urge you to check it… Continue Reading
Marketing And Selling To Chinese Businesses
Posted in Recommended ReadingMatthew Harrison of B2B International China has a nice post up on China Success Stories, entitled, “Marketing and Selling to Chinese Businesses.” For me, the big takeaway (and surprise) was the importance of conferences and exhibitions. Now of course I knew that China puts a big one of these on just about every week, but… Continue Reading
Take A Time Out On Foreign Publishing In China
Posted in Legal NewsNearly every month some non-Chinese company comes to my law firm seeking our help in navigating the legal issues involved in publishing some sort of magazine or website in China. Their initial questions nearly always focus on WFOEs versus Rep. Offices or about bringing on Chinese staff as part owners of their planned company. Not… Continue Reading
China Tech At OpenWebAsia.com
Posted in Recommended ReadingWhen two preeminent China techno-geeks (Kaiser Kuo at Ogilvy Digital Watch and David Wolf at Silicon Hutong) tell us we should be looking to newly created OpenWebAsia.com for sources on China and Asia tech, all I can do is listen and repeat. OpenWebAsia describes itself as follows: The OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium… Continue Reading
China And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) — Not Just For Americans Any More
Posted in Legal NewsThe WSJ China Journal (a really good blog we just added to our blogroll) has a post, entitled, “China’s Tricky Terrain on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” interviewing Richard Grime, an attorney with LA based mega-firm, O’Melveny & Myers. Both the interview and Grime’s practice focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The interview… Continue Reading
China’s New Labor Contract Law — In English
Posted in Legal NewsChina Law & Practice Magazine just came out with a very good English language translation of China’s new Labor Contract Law here. For more on China’s new labour law, check out the following: – “China’s Proposed Labor Law:Going After Capitalists Like China, 1967” – “China’s Proposed Labor Law Causing Sucking Sounds” – “China’s New Labor… Continue Reading
Tax Benefits Under China’s New Corporate Income Tax Law: Much Unfinished Business
Posted in Legal NewsBy Steve Dickinson and Andrew Grieve Since enactment of China’s new Corporate Income Tax (CIT) code at the first of this year, my firm has been working with a number of high-tech (mostly software, computer hardware, environmental technology, and medical technology) companies to figure out how they can benefit from these new laws. With the… Continue Reading
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