The International Law and Policy Blog is just out with a post that very nicely summarizes various positions on China’s currency. The post is entitled, “Summary of China Currency Views,” and it seeks to do the following: I thought it might be interesting to gather up the various views that have been expressed on the… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: March 2010
A Google-China Cheat Sheet. Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto.
Posted in Legal NewsWill Moss over at ImageThief has a great post on the Google-China brouhaha, entitled, “A handy cheat sheet for interpreting the Google China story.” The post is allegedly a tongue-in-cheek cheat sheet of how Google’s leaving China is viewed/spun, depending on the perspective. But it actually is a great analysis of what is happening and… Continue Reading
China Law: Go Big Or Go Home. Better Yet, Go Boutique.
Posted in Legal NewsLoved an article in this month’s Asia Law Business, entitled, “Boutique firms gain market from general practices.” The article is written by Rashida Yosufzai and I have multiple reasons for loving it. First, the headline alone is music to my ears as my firm is, as far as I know, the only United States law… Continue Reading
China’s Liechtenstein Effect.
Posted in China BusinessWhenever looking at the laws or actions of a another country, it is important to keep things in perspective. It just makes good sense to have some perspective on how things really are in your own country and in other countries, before expressing outrage at how things are in one particular country, as though that… Continue Reading
China Tweeting/Twittering. Et Tu?
Posted in Good PeopleA month or so ago, I did a post, entitled, “25+ China People You Should Follow On Twitter. Not One “China Expert” Among Them.” I did it in response to a client asking me for a list of China people he should be following and my post consisted of little more than me pulling this… Continue Reading
Google, Rio Tinto And The Truth About China FDI. BTW, They Are Not Even Really Related.
Posted in Legal NewsFor days now, I have been planning to write a “moderate” post on the state of FDI in China. By moderate, I mean one between the “sky is falling down everyone flee now” lines being pitched by some (mostly those who are actually not involved in China) and those who are writing that everything is… Continue Reading
China Social Gaming. An Overview.
Posted in Recommended ReadingReadWriteWeb has an excellent piece on China’s social gaming market and participants. The post is entitled, “China’s Social Gaming Landscape: What’s Coming Next?” and its written by Joel Backaler of The China Observer. The post does a nice job answering the following questions: – What makes a ‘winning’ Social Game in China? – Which Social… Continue Reading
Google, China, And Free Speech For Those Who Actually Give A Damn.
Posted in China Business– “94,000″ sue Danish cartoonist in a London court for a cartoon that offended – Canada “clamps down on free speech,” forcing American author to cancel her speech in Canada due to anticipated violence For more on Canada, check out “The creepy tyranny of Canada’s hate speech laws” (h/t EastSouthWestNorth) – Turkey’s Prime Minister threatens… Continue Reading
China OEM Agreements. You Are Naked Without A Good Bill Of Materials
Posted in Legal NewsThis post was written by Jon Zimmerman. Jon has been practicing international law for nearly 18 years and has been heavily involved in China law for 15 of those years. Jon was even at one time the General Counsel for the Chinese electronics firm, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co. Ltd, or Changhong. He now represents both… Continue Reading
China Law Blog’s Media Tour. Power Lunch For Breakfast.
Posted in EventsI will be appearing on CNBC’s Power Lunch today at approximately 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST and 1:00 am China time). I will be on to discuss the impact Google’s leaving China is likely to have on foreign businesses in and involved with China. Please be sure to tune in. UPDATE: The show has… Continue Reading
China (And Other) Border Guards. Hate ‘Em At Your Own Peril. R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Posted in China TravelWhen I was in BigLaw back in the Midwest, one of my favorite activities was engaging in Britt Airways stories with other lawyers during long pauses in depositions or hearings. I usually reeled out two stories. The first was how I once had to go from Bloomington, Indiana, to Minneapolis, Minnesota and how my luggage… Continue Reading
Is China Going Green? Part IXX. An Excellent Update/Analysis.
Posted in Recommended ReadingChina Real Time Report just put up an excellent post by Professor Stanley Lubman on the state of the environmental laws and enforcement in China. Entitled, “Strengthening Enforcement of China’s Environmental Protection Laws,” its first and last paragraphs nicely summarize the post itself: In the face of ongoing serious damage to China’s environment caused by… Continue Reading
China Blog March Madness. Xinjiang, Blogs That Pop And The Old Guard.
Posted in Recommended ReadingSome interesting/informative new China blog lists out this month. The first, and most specialized, is that on Far West China. The post there is entitled, “A Survey of Xinjiang Websites on the Internet” and that is exactly what it is. Xinjiang gets little media coverage and not much blogging coverage either, so this list, though… Continue Reading
Psst. China Has Tort Laws. Oh, And They Are Relevant For Foreigners.
Posted in Legal NewsNOTE: This post is very much based on co-blogger Steve Dickinson’s recent article in China Economic Review, entitled, “A Civil Action.” On July 1, 2010, China will be getting a new Tort Law. This law has been in in the works for nearly a decade and its arrival represents the completion of China’s civil code…. Continue Reading
China: Don’t Let The Tail Wag The Dog.
Posted in Legal NewsExcellent post over at the China Tax Insight Blog, based largely on a couple of comments on this blog to which I had not yet gotten around to responding. The China Tax Insight post is entitled, “A Seeming Solution to the China PE problem” and it relates to businesses trying to avoid having to set… Continue Reading
The China Price. Low, Lower, Lowest And Incredibly High.
Posted in China BusinessExcellent blog post on the Harvard Business Review Blog regarding prices in China. The post is written by Max Magni and Yuval Atsmon of McKinsey & Company’s consumer practice in Greater China and Atsmon is an “associate principal” in the Shanghai office. The post is entitled, “China’s Reverse Price Wars,” and though it does not… Continue Reading
You Want Chinese Workers? Think Outside the Guangdong Box.
Posted in China BusinessThere has been a lot of press lately about shortages of Chinese workers. It is important to note that nearly all of those stories originate from and focus on Guangdong province. If China is the factory to the world, Guangdong is the factory to China. If you wanted to hit a massive factory by throwing… Continue Reading
Pssst. China Has Quality Control Laws. Et Tu Hugo?
Posted in Legal NewsA China Daily article, entitled Foreign luxury retail brands fail quality control test: study, (h/t Quality Inspection Blog) nicely highlights what Westerners far too often fail to realize about China: it has laws. More specifically, it has import laws and quality control/consumer protection laws. Now I know most (all?) of you are murmuring, “of course,”… Continue Reading
World Of Warcraft As China Metaphor.
Posted in China BusinessWhen I served on a China panel at Berkeley last month, I met Dan Maas, who asked me for my thoughts on what had been happening to the World of Warcraft online game in China. It took me about fifteen seconds to figure out Dan knew far more about what was happening on that front… Continue Reading
Selling Product And Services INTO China. It’s The Payment Stupid.
Posted in Legal NewsWith President Obama talking about doubling U.S. exports and with China’s economy booming, it seems appropriate to talk about what should go into a sales contract with China, when you, the foreign company, are the one doing the sale. The big thing — almost, but not quite the only thing — in such a transaction… Continue Reading
China’s Tech Scene.
Posted in Recommended ReadingPlus8Star blog has an excellent post up on Beijing’s technology “scene.” The post is an interview consisting of the following questions (with answers): 1. What’s the funding scene like in China and where are some of the incubators and resources Chinese entrepreneurs can look to? 2. How did the technology scene in China emerge and… Continue Reading
Shanghai Expo Pavilions. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
Posted in Recommended ReadingRyan McLaughlin over at Lost Laowai (and the technical force behind this blog) just did a post, entitled, “World Expo Shanghai 2010 Pavilions – Some Favourites,” comparing various of the Shanghai Expo Pavilions. Whether you agree or disagree with Ryan’s anything but wimpy assessments, his post certainly does make for an interesting read and review… Continue Reading
China Manufacturing: The Real Story.
Posted in China BusinessHelen Wang over at the Chinese Dream blog is just out with an interesting post on innovation in Chinese manufacturing, or the lack thereof. The post is entitled, “Myth of China’s Manufacturing Prowess,” and its central thesis is that Americans misunderstand what drives Chinese manufacturing. I agree with her and at the end of this… Continue Reading
The China Representative Office (RO). Got WFOE?
Posted in Legal NewsSpoke with a China lawyer friend of mine today who told me his firm had not “done” a single China Rep Office for the last six months. Every time someone had contacted them with plans for a China Rep Office, it ended up as a WFOE. I told him the same thing had been happening… Continue Reading
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