Sex sells. anonymous Sex and violence sells everywhere. Dan Harris Back when we first started this blog about three and a half years ago, I felt somewhat like a voice calling in the wilderness whenever we would tout how companies needed to look at China for more than just factories. Now, this idea has pretty… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: September 2008
So You Want To Be An International (China) Lawyer? Part III
Posted in Legal NewsI am frequently emailed by college students, law students and even practitioners, seeking advice on what it takes to become an international lawyer. It seems the lawyer behind the Counterfeit Chic blog (an excellent blog, BTW) gets even more of these regarding “fashion law” and she gives answers in her post, entitled, “Fashion Law.” How… Continue Reading
How To Handle Bad Product From Your China Supplier.
Posted in Legal NewsVery interesting post by David Dayton over at Silk Road International, entitled, “Recent Chinese Negotiation Tactics: Translated!” The post is on the responses (excuses?) Chinese companies give when Westerners complain to them about product quality. David handles sourcing and quality control for mostly Western companies doing business in Asia and his post focuses on dealing… Continue Reading
Checking Out A Gory Car Accident. Can’t Look Away. That’s China Smack.
Posted in Recommended ReadingI admit it. I think I like China Smack. I know I drop by there every once in a while and though I often feel like taking a shower afterwards, I keep going back. Truth From Facts does a good job describing what China Smack is all about and, in doing so, explains its appeal:… Continue Reading
China Joint Ventures. Can Things Get Any Worse?
Posted in Legal NewsMy 11 year old daughter is always asking me whether I can drive any slower. I usually respond by proving that I can. Seems almost as though China is now doing the same thing to me in response to my constantly harping on the dangers of China joint ventures. When I was just starting out… Continue Reading
China’s Brand New Labor Law Regulations. It’s All Here.
Posted in Legal NewsThis post was written by Andrew Grieve, who works with us on our Chinese employment law matters. The implementation regulations for the new Chinese Labor Contract Law were promulgated on September 3. When the draft regulations were issued earlier this year, we discussed some of the proposed changes (here), and despite having shrunk from 45… Continue Reading
What Is Happening With China’s Economy?
Posted in Recommended ReadingChina Comment tells us, here. Problem is that what is happening right this minute may not be what happens next week. If the US bailout fails to occur or to stick, I fear we are all going down.
THE International Arbitration Center List.
Posted in Legal NewsWas given this by Constance Kim, Los Angeles lawyer extraordinaire, a few months ago and then forgot all about it. Came across it today and realized how helpful it would be to our readers to put this online, so here it is. This is the most comprehensive list of international arbitration centers I have seen…. Continue Reading
China’s Courts, Tenth “Best” Out of Twelve.
Posted in Legal NewsJust came across this article discussing a ranking of various Asian countries’ judicial system, conducted by Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) (h/t to Silk Road International Blog): 1,537 corporate executives working in Asia rated the judicial systems in the countries where they reside, using such variables as the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR)… Continue Reading
McCain And Obama. None Of The Above.
Posted in Good PeopleA bit off topic here, but it is something I have been thinking about for months and it just will not go away. It is that neither McCain nor Obama are up to the task of leading our nation. The other day, a good sized group of us from all political persuasions were discussing Carly… Continue Reading
Research Guide To Hong Kong Law.
Posted in Legal NewsSergio Stone, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian at Stanford Law School, and Roy Sturgeon, Foreign and International Law Librarian at Touro Law Center and a contributing editor at the Law Librarian Blog, have come out with what appears to be an excellent guide to legal research on Hong Kong law. The guide is entitled,… Continue Reading
Is China’s Financial System Safe?
Posted in Recommended ReadingChina Financial Markets Blog poses this question in its post, “Is China Safe?” Go there for both the post itself and for its long list of very thoughtful comments.
China Tourist Attractions
Posted in China TravelOne of the things I truly love about blogging on China is the interesting people I meet. One of those is Eutak (Tak for short), a software guy from Singapore who spent many years working for Microsoft here in the Pacific Northwest and then in Beijing. Tak and I share a love for running/walking/biking around… Continue Reading
Trademark Protection In The Global (And China) Marketplace
Posted in Legal NewsThis article was written by my friend, Brian Geoghegan, who describes himself as having “practiced trademark and copyright law since graduating in 1985 from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). In 2003, he finally left behind the megafirm lifestyle and founded GeoMark, a boutique trademark and copyright law firm.” Trademarks… Continue Reading
Breaking News: CLB’s Steve Dickinson On Bloomberg’s “Asia Business Tonight” At 6:20 PM, China Time.
Posted in EventsCLB’s own Steve Dickinson will be appearing live (from Qingdao, China) on Bloomberg’s “Asia Business Tonight,” tonight (Thursday) at 6:20 pm, China time. This translates to Thursday at 10:20 GMT, Thursday at 6:20 am, EST, Thursday at 3:20 am PST and Thursday 11:20 am, London time. Go here to watch it live on the internet.
China Joint Ventures And Really Bad Milk. What Can You Do?
Posted in Legal NewsCLB’s own Steve Dickinson was interviewed today by New Zealand newspaper, The Dominion Post, regarding Sanlu melamine tainted milk, in an article entitled, “What Fonterra Didn’t Know.” Some facts first. Wikipedia tells us this about Fonterra: Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd (NZX: FCGHA), generally known as Fonterra, is New Zealand’s largest company by turnover. A cooperative,… Continue Reading
Melamine In China Baby Milk Powder — Whoops Sorry.
Posted in Recommended ReadingImageThief is just out with a great post on the Sanlu melamine crisis. The post does an amazing job giving a history of China’s food safety problems, dissecting the current one, and discussing in real world terms Fonterra (the New Zealand company involved in a joint venture with Sanlu) has handled it, and how Fonterra… Continue Reading
The Impact Of China’s Labor Contract Law.
Posted in Legal NewsBy: Dan Harris and Brad Luo It has been a little over eight months since China enacted its groundbreaking new Labor Contract Law (“LCL”), which is just enough time to preliminarily assess its impact. The LCL has already greatly impacted employee treatment in China and greatly impacted how Chinese employees view their rights. It also… Continue Reading
China Baby Formula. Here We Go Again.
Posted in Legal NewsWhenever there is a big food safety scandal, two things happen. Companies start calling us asking if we can protect them from such problems (we can improve their odds but nothing is guaranteed) and the press starts calling us with questions as to what went wrong. First with the press. Bloomberg news is out with… Continue Reading
McCain And Obama On China. In Their Own Words. BIG YAWN!
Posted in Recommended ReadingI bring this to our readers as a public service, along with the warning that if you read either one while lying down, odds are you will fall asleep before you get to the second one. Anyway, I give you McCain and Obama, in their own words, on China, written for AmCham. The summary of… Continue Reading
China Sales Contracts. Do You Know Where Your Law Is?
Posted in Legal NewsWill Lewis over at Experience Not Logic (ENL) does an excellent job explaining a somewhat difficult but important legal concept in the international sale of goods. The concept is choice of law and the point of ENL’s post, entitled, “Sales To and From China. What Does Your Choice of Law Clause Look Like?” is that… Continue Reading
Obama/McCain — The Foreign Policy Differences.
Posted in Recommended ReadingLeave it to Fouad Ajami to put out the best article I have yet seen on the differences between McCain and Obama on foreign policy. Entitled, “The Foreign Policy Difference,” it makes no claim as to which foreign policy framework is better, nor do I, but if you want to get to the heart of… Continue Reading
Do You Know How Many China Employees You Have? I’ll Raise You One.
Posted in Legal NewsThe other day I was searching for an email from a client named “Joe” and I came across another Joe from whom I had not heard in quite a while. So I shot the other Joe an email to ask him how his China business was going and he replied to me today by saying… Continue Reading
Chinese Multiculturalism. Is Skin Color The Determinant?
Posted in Recommended ReadingThe Useless Tree has a very long, very thoughtful post on what constitutes Chinese and where China is going in terms of becoming a multicultural society. The post is entitled, “Can A Black Man Become Chinese?” and it is well worth a read.
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