Three days ago, I did a post entitled, “China Visas. I’m Getting Deja Vu Olympic Feelings,” in which I talked about having heard from clients of difficulties in getting their China visas: One of the great things a about being a lawyer is that we hear all kinds of things from our clients and potential… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Avoiding Chinese Jails. I’m Talkin’ To You.
Posted in Legal NewsIn her post, Hot Water in China? Don’t Get Burned: Part I, Aimee Barnes highlights how important it is for foreigners to follow the law in China. All of the laws. All of the time. No matter how much you may disagree with them, no matter how silly you may find them, and no matter… Continue Reading
Foreign Direct Investment In China. The Times Have Changed. For Good.
Posted in China BusinessChina Law Blog’s Steve Dickinson recently did a China Economic Review column on China’s efforts to move away from being an “export-led” economy. The column is entitled, “No Turning Back,” [subscription required] and its thesis is that despite the economic downturn, China’s overall macroeconomic plan is still moving forward. Steve starts out by noting how… Continue Reading
China Visas. I’m Getting Deja Vu Olympic Feelings.
Posted in Legal NewsOne of the great things a about being a lawyer is that we hear all kinds of things from our clients and potential clients. And then when we start hearing those same things on the blogs, we know something is up. I am hearing a lot of things about the difficulty of getting anything but… Continue Reading
Everything (And A Whole Lot More) You Wanted To Know About China Law Blog In 140 Characters.
Posted in Recommended Reading@22tweets interviewed me via twitter the other day and that interview is now online here. Because it was on twitter, I was limited to 140 character answers (actually it was even less than that as some of the 140 characters went towards the address and the hashtag). 22tweets is run by the incomparable Lance Godard… Continue Reading
Can Someone Explain China Retail?
Posted in China BusinessI am being serious here. I just recently got back from a China trip with my eleven year old daughter. Like most 11 year old girls, she loves to shop for clothes and she really is quite knowledgeable about them. Though we went to other places as well, she did her clothes shopping in Shanghai,… Continue Reading
Wanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help. Part II, The Corporate Counsel Edition.
Posted in Legal NewsI should have waited a couple of days. The day before yesterday, I did a post on foreign employees getting sued in China by their ex-employees, entitled, “Wanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help.” Today, Corporate Counsel Magazine came out with a related article, in which I am quoted. The article is entitled,… Continue Reading
Wanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help.
Posted in Legal NewsChina Daily (h/t to my friend Brian over at China Challenges) just came out with an article headlined, “Cases soar as workers seek redress.” The article gives facts behind what many of us already knew: “the number of labor disputes heard by courts has skyrocketed this year.” I knew it because my firm’s handling of… Continue Reading
On How To Handle The Accidental China Business
Posted in China BusinessInteresting post by Andrew Hupert over at China Solved, entitled, “Selling China to the Accidental Expats.” The post is intended to instruct China consultants on how they should handle calls from American companies that have now decided they must take advantage of China’s growing market. But it also makes some very good points for those… Continue Reading
Chinese Drywall Cases. Show Me The Money!
Posted in Legal NewsThe Wall Street Journal Law Blog did a post the other day touting Chinese drywall as the next big mass tort action in the United States. The post is entitled, “Does the New Product-Liability Boom Lie . . . Inside the Walls?” and to the extent it hints at a “yes” answer, it is likely… Continue Reading
Hutong Economics…..China Business?
Posted in China BusinessI am in the middle of a post on why the Chinese drywall cases are no big deal but I can’t seem to get out of my head a very short post over at Letter From China. The post is entitled “Hutong Economics,” and it very briefly (I know I earlier already described it as… Continue Reading
Jackie Chan Is A Know-Nothing Self-Loathing Racist.
Posted in Recommended ReadingThe title sums up my initial reaction to the news of Jackie Chan dissing the Chinese people by essentially saying they are too messed up to ever be able to handle democracy. I was going to write a blog post criticizing Chan for his comments and noting how the same thing has been said about… Continue Reading
Working With Chinese and Korean Lawyers. The Big Four Issues With Each.
Posted in Legal NewsLast year, I wrote an article for the Complete Lawyer, entitled, “Working with Korean and Chinese Lawyers.” I was originally asked to write on working with Asian lawyers in general, but convinced the magazine to allow me to focus on just China and Korea. I asked for this limitation because I did not believe myself… Continue Reading
Ignore China’s Low End Market At Your Peril. Oh, And Don’t Forget The High End Either.
Posted in China BusinessThe other day I did a post, entitled, “China Business. Which Comes First The Wealth Or The Low End?” on a discussion I had with Jack Perkowski regarding China’s low end products market, how huge it is, and how foreign companies should not simply concede it to local companies. At the end of my post,… Continue Reading
What China’s Credit Crunch Means For YOU.
Posted in China BusinessThe Financial Times just did a story, entitled, Fears rise on China groups’ payments on how private Chinese companies are being negatively impacted by the credit crunch (h/t to China Economics Blog). China’s credit crunch is already having a large impact on American and European companies that do business with China and I see that… Continue Reading
United States Job Creation, China Style.
Posted in Recommended ReadingAbout a month ago, I wrote a post, entitled, “China. Friend Or Foe? Opportunity Or Challenge? Or, Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?” The post was on an unnamed client of mine who had written me an email regarding a wind energy project in which he had helped an Ohio company secure necessary parts… Continue Reading
China: I’ll Take You There…..Flowing Waters Never Stale.
Posted in Recommended ReadingOne of the best/worst things about this blog is that just about every book that comes out on China finds its way to my desk, gratis. Most sit on my credenza for a few weeks, and then get moved to my bookcase, where I look at them from afar. I’m planning to read all of… Continue Reading
China Business. Which Comes First The Wealth Or The Low End?
Posted in China BusinessHad breakfast yesterday with Jack Perkowski, author of the book, Managing the Dragon, and the blog of the same name. Jack recently left as CEO of Asimco Technologies to start JFP Holdings, “a merchant bank for China.” Jack has been doing business in China for a long time and he clearly knows whereof he speaks… Continue Reading
China’s Labor Laws: The Cultural Disconnect Goes Both Ways.
Posted in Legal NewsLast week, I attended co-blogger Steve Dickinson’s lecture on China labor law. Steve’s lecture was part of a truly superb Doing Business in China seminar put on by Global Nav. The thrust of Steve’s speech was that labor laws in China have changed, they are being enforced against foreigners, and they are very different from… Continue Reading
On The Importance Of “Face” In China Legal.
Posted in Legal NewsChina Daily did an article the other day on how China’s courts are now going to post its unpaid judgments online. It is entitled, “Court launches website showing who hasn’t paid.” A bit of background is in order. China’s court system (and I am talking about commercial disputes ONLY) is not as bad as is… Continue Reading
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