International Law

"China" in the Minds of Americans

Posted on February 28, 2010
Many Americans, especially those who know little about the subject, feel strongly that the torch for the world's next generation, has passed to China. John Pomfret takes this idea to task here. For Americans, China -- not what is actually China, but what Americans think they see -- has become a kind of collective projection of fantasy upon which all of the America's shortcomings are writ large...

US Federal Government Investigates Toyota

Posted on February 25, 2010
The U.S. Federal Government, heavily invested in General Motors, investigates not only its competition, but its competition's suppliers, using its extraordinary powers: Warrants were carried out on the Michigan offices of Yazaki Corp. in Canton, Denso International America Inc...

It's the Yuan, Again, and Again, and Again, and...

Posted on February 18, 2010
More hollering about the value of the Yuan. This is simply Washington window dressing on the more profound problem to which none of the "best and brightest" supposed to be leading this country seems to care deeply enough about to create a solution. Are there any newly instituted and significant incentives aimed at encouraging American business to bring manufacturing back onshore? (That was a rhetorical question...

Interview with a Chinese Cyberthief

Posted on February 02, 2010
From the NY Times: ?Here?s a list of the people who?ve been infected with my Trojan horse,? he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. ?They don?t even know what?s happened.? Worthwhile reading.

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MI5: PLA and PSB "Gifts" to Businessmen Bugged

Posted on February 01, 2010
Commercial espionage among nations should not come as a surprise to anyone involved competitive businesses. I am a proponent of the idea that American intelligence should practice it far more than we already do, which is either so brilliantly executed as to stay below the radar of public view or relatively inconsequential...

Google CEO Criticizes Chinese Leadership at World Forum

Posted on January 29, 2010
Breaking news at WSJ: Google CEO Schmidt at Davos: 'We like what China is doing in terms of growth ... we just don't like censorship. We hope that will change and we can apply some pressure to make things better for the Chinese people. Uh oh. This is worse than merely shooting oneself in the foot, is it not? Direct foreign criticism of Chinese "internal affairs" declaimed to the world's elite political leadership.

Google Delays Phone Launch in China -- Getting In Deeper...

Posted on January 19, 2010
Google has announced a delay in China of the launch of mobile phones using its Android software. One must question this move as simply more Google shadow boxing. Despite its threat to remove web filtering, Google does not appear to have done so. Similarly, a postponement is simply that...

Google in China: A Brief Update

Posted on January 18, 2010
Sources not named by Reuters allege employee collusion: Google (GOOG.O) is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday...

CYBERSITTER v. China et al -- Attorneys for the Plaintiff Hacked, Get Your Complaints Here

Posted on January 14, 2010
More on cyberattacks originating in China of private companies with interests contrary to the Party. Article here. Lawyers suing China for 2.2 billion dollars in an Internet-censoring software piracy case said they came under cyberattack this week. Attorneys at the California law firm of Gipson Hoffman & Pancione said that on Monday they began receiving "Trojan emails" crafted to trick them into opening files booby-trapped with malicious software code...

New York Times Removes Negative Quotations from Article on Google and Baidu

Posted on January 14, 2010
I write this to satisfy the curiousity of those who may not see a quotation referenced in an Asiabizblog post. The New York Times has removed or revised two quotations from an article it published on January 13, originally titled, "China's Exit Threatens China's Internet," by David Barboza, et al...

The Google Threat: Paper Tiger?

Posted on January 13, 2010
?Media is always a losing proposition in China.? I was thrilled to read Anne Stevenson Yang's forthright and accurate assessment of foreign involvement in Chinese media. Finally, a non-Chinese within China is willing to state the obvious to a public audience...

VIDEO: China's Government Stimulus Package

Posted on January 08, 2010
Why do they call it China's "empty city?"

Another Joins the China Bust Bandwagon

Posted on January 08, 2010
I've heard this same argument, in its various iterations, from so many people over the past 15 years that I'm not surprised to see James Chanos, a well-known short seller, join the club, even at this late date. As most of the world bets on China to help lift the global economy out of recession, Mr...

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf -- Just How Much Can an Animator Make Off Programming in China?

Posted on December 17, 2009
While it is well-known that advertising revenue has made CCTV, the provincial and regional stations superb examples of the proverbial cash cow, we find out from "Li Lisi of the Creative Power Entertaining Co., Ltd. (?Creative Power?) in Guangzhou" how little they are willing to pay for their programming...

India Shuts Out Foreign Law Firms

Posted on December 16, 2009
Foreign law firms have been banned from "all forms of practice" in India. Will the US respond in kind? Are you kidding? That would be protectionist!

EVENT (Beijing): Future Trends in Communications: 2010 and Beyond

Posted on December 10, 2009
The IABC in Beijing has organised a panel discussion with two leading Beijing-based communicators to discuss "Future Trends in Communications: 2010 and Beyond." Panelists will discuss and answer questions on this subject. Both speakers bring considerable experience as professional communicators to the discussion...

How Not to Get Scammed by a Scam Email

Posted on December 09, 2009
While not precisely on the subject of China, I post for your amusement and edification the text of an article which was published in the Dec. 7 issued of the Connecticut Law Tribune. It's also online, but requires a subscription log-in to access. How To Read A Scam E-Mail (And Not Get Scammed Yourself) by Richard Kuslan [Richard Kuslan is an attorney with offices in New Haven and Norwich, focusing on immigration, commercial and IP law (www...

New China IP Bibliography - Available for Download

Posted on December 07, 2009
AsiaBizBlog thanks Bob Hu for permission to host "Protecting Intellectual Property in China: A Selective Bibliography and Resource for Research" on the blog. Many of our legal readers will find this 31 page research bibliography on Chinese IP law to be of value...

Chinese State Firm to Build New York City Subway Infrastructure

Posted on December 01, 2009
China State Construction Engineering Corp, the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about $100 million in New York's Manhattan area, marking the construction giant's third order in the United States' infrastructure space this year...

China: To Become a Spendthrift?

Posted on November 30, 2009
Getting China to spend rather than save turns out to be harder than it sounds. I have been tooting this horn for a decade, with few other Western watchers in agreement, until this rather tepid, but ultimately concurring, WSJ piece. China will not become the spendthrift the US wishes it to become...

Video: Taiwan

Posted on November 12, 2009
Some lovely pictures of Taipei and a top level overview, narrated in a drab voiceover -- why don't they ask me to narrate these? By the way, if you've any video you'd like a China-focused audience to see, please let me know. Video attracts a substantial number of unique viewers and I'd like to carry more of it...

More on the "Overseas Client Scams Law Firm" Scam: Suits Filed

Posted on November 04, 2009
Two American law firms, unable to reach the scammer, now basking in sunny climes foreign to this great land, have taken to suing the banks which -- allegedly, I must say in self-protection -- processed the checks. What I find particularly fascinating is this: The client's instructions, two days later, to wire $128,600 to Nassco Korea Co...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Publication of China Labor and Employment Law Resource

Posted on November 02, 2009
Ron Brown, friend of this blog, has authored UNDERSTANDING LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW IN CHINA, published by Cambridge U.P. Continued economic prosperity in China and its international competitive advantage have been due in large part to the labor of workers in China, who for many years toiled in under-regulated workplaces...

Apologies for the Radio Silence

Posted on October 16, 2009
I've been busy preparing to open a second location for my law practice and have not written much. But let me give you something to read in the meantime: After 11 years of trial, New Taiwan Dollar/RMB exchange, based in bank branches and open to the public, has expanded to the entire province of Fujian...

Can China Lead a Recovery? Right...

Posted on October 06, 2009
More pie-in-the-sky dreams about a consumer economy in China. Note this paragraph, buried in the article: It remains unclear whether the Chinese have abandoned their traditional caution [to spend]. "Over the past decade or so, the growth of China's household consumption has been outpaced by fixed investment growth and exports, and consumption as a percentage of GDP is low and has been on the decline," said Morgan Stanley analysts Qing Wang and Steven Zhang in a report last month...

EVENT: U.S.-China High Technology Working Group

Posted on September 22, 2009
On September 29, 2009, the U.S.-China High Technology Working Group, sponsored by NAM, MOFCOM and the Dept of Commerce, will hold a "Public-Private Sector Dialogue," described as follows: The U.S.-China High Technology Working Group (HTWG) was established to facilitate high-technology exports to civilian end-users in China, in accordance with U...

Patent Attorney Position, Head of Patents, China

Posted on September 10, 2009
[Editor's Note: As a public service, Asiabizblog is pleased to post the folllowing opportunity.] By way of introduction, I am a principal and founder of The PeterSan Group (www.petersan.com ), a leading legal search firm based in New York. We are currently conducting a search for our client, a multi-billion dollar consumer products company, that is seeking an experienced patent attorney to serve as Head of Patents, China...

Ralph Lauren in China -- 15 Stores to Open -- Significant IP Challenge

Posted on August 31, 2009
As his employer plans to roll out 15 stores in China, George Hrdina, president of Ralph Lauren?s Asian business, said in an interview in Hong Kong. ?We do more Ralph Lauren business on the island of Manhattan, New York than we do in Hong Kong and China...

Federal Court Enforces Chinese Judgment Against American Company

Posted on August 24, 2009
The Central District of California has held that a money judgment of $6.5 million against Robinson Helicopters issued by a Chinese court is enforceable under California's Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act. (UFMJRA) Download the decision here...

Guest Post: Vivienne Bath on Stern Hu, Rio Tinto and China

Posted on August 19, 2009
[Editor's Note: Steel is a big deal in China. The World Steel Association has noted: China became the first country ever to produce more than 500 mmt in one year. China?s crude steel production in 2008 reached 502 mmt, an increase of 2.6% on 2007. Production volume in China has more than doubled within five years, from 222 mmt in 2002...

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