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China Hearsay

Commentary and analysis of law and business in China.
By Stan Abrams

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Last Entry: May 03, 2010 at 11:04:24

This Is Not Going To End Well

Posted on September 18, 2009
Guess who President Obama plans to meet after his China visit? Hint: it’s a religious leader from Asia who is very popular with American college students. Read it and weep. Bad idea, but at least it’s happening after he comes here. If it was before, maybe the visit would be cancelled...

US-China Tire Case - Part I

Posted on September 18, 2009
I am coming to this story very late, so apologies for that. I have a huge number of stories on this, so it will take me several days to get through it all. I considered researching everything and coming up with a consolidated, cogent and efficient post on the topic...

Where Did the Day Go?

Posted on September 17, 2009
Believe it or not, but it is now 3:15 am, and I am just finishing up a marathon work session, having just wrapped up a long memo on a patent license dispute. Started writing this thing at about 2:00pm, so it was a (more or less) steady 12 hours of writing, if you take out my [...

Back in Beijing

Posted on September 16, 2009
Still not caught up with work/news since I got back from the Netherlands, but a quick note on the IP conference is in order. Attendance was good - something like 50+ SMEs were represented. Lots of industries were there, although I noted a strong contingent of greentech and engineering firms...

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Blast From the Past II - That Was A Great IP Conference

Posted on September 10, 2009
For everyone reading this, it should be Thursday (China time), let’s say sometime late in the evening. In reality, for me, it is Wednesay early morning, and I am still wasting time blogging while my wife keeps reminding me every 45 minutes that I should pack my suitcase for my trip to Amsterdam that leaves in [...

Blast From the Past I - Not Another IP Public Education Campaign

Posted on September 09, 2009
I’m speaking to you from the past, sort of. I’m writing this in the wee hours of the morning Wednesday as I count the hours down to my morning flight to Amsterdam. As I’ll be off the Net, most likely, until Monday, I figured now was a good time to use that wonderful little feature of [...

Hummer Deal (Almost) Officially Dead

Posted on September 09, 2009
China?s Ministry of Commerce rejected Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co.?s application to acquire General Motors Corp.?s Hummer unit, the Beijing Youth Daily reported today, without saying where it got the information. The ministry rejected the application because Tengzhong didn?t say if it was buying Hummer?s brand or its technology, the [...

Whither Hong Kong?

Posted on September 08, 2009
Enjoyable post on the Reuters Changing China blog on where Hong Kong stands these days in the financial community: Many Asia bankers and dealmakers are based in Hong Kong but nowadasys many of them�only stay in the territory�for�weekends.�So where are they during the rest of the week? China, of course...

This is How Couch Potatoes ?Get Involved?

Posted on September 08, 2009
Angry fans of Hot-Blooded Legend staged the blockade to disrupt the launch of The Legend Returns, a new version of the popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. The protesters massed their avatars at the gates of cities to prevent new people from entering...

Wal-mart May Be In Need of a China Business Consultant

Posted on September 08, 2009
A woman in eastern China was allegedly beaten to death by five employees of a Wal-Mart store who accused her of shoplifting, a police report and state media said Tuesday. (AFP) I’m a lawyer, not a business expert, but it seems to me that beating suspected shoplifters to death is a bit on the [...

China Implements New Online Music Rules

Posted on September 07, 2009
This is news to me, and I’ve heard nothing except the press reports: China’s Ministry of Culture has implemented a new set of rules governing the online sale and distribution of foreign songs in the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday...

Real Name System For China Sites - meh

Posted on September 07, 2009
News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country?s Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past. (NYT) Nothing much to see here, move along...

FDI Law Class (update)

Posted on September 07, 2009
Well, I finally finished up my syllabus, including class topics and reading list, and it has been approved by the program director. So that’s the good news. Now I have to move forward with lecture notes/Powerpoint slides for each class, which will take quite a bit of time...

Notes on China FDI Law Syllabus - or why I haven?t been blogging much this week

Posted on September 03, 2009
The syllabus for my China Foreign Direct Investment Law class is due Monday, so as the deadline approaches, I’ve been putting extra time in to iron out reading and topic issues. I think I’ve pretty much sorted out most of my reading assignments and topics at this point, so I thought I’d share and see if [...

Sarah Palin and the Excesses of the Financial Services Industry

Posted on September 01, 2009
The former Alaskan 1/2-term governor and noted mentally challenged politician is coming to Hong Kong to talk to fund managers. The appearance suggests to me than the recession is officially over for our pals in the financial services industry, who are once again participating in a blatant display of conspicuous consumption...

China WTO Auto Parts Case - effective delaying tactics

Posted on September 01, 2009
Looks like final closure on this tariff dispute: The Chinese state media reported Friday that Beijing was expected to scrap the higher tariffs next week and that the Chinese government would issue a statement Tuesday abolishing the rule.(More) � Stan for China Hearsay, 2009...

Gotta Love The Onion

Posted on September 01, 2009
Just for the record, this article in The Onion on China is the best thing I’ve read in quite some time. It goes after one of my favorite targets. My only regret is that something like that wasn’t written in the run-up to the Olympics. Alas...

GAPP Smacks Down Game Operators

Posted on September 01, 2009
Tough to regulate an industry that is growing this quickly, but they’re trying. Check out the latest news, with my comments after the excerpt: The General Administration of Press and Publication of China has blacklisted 71 types of computer games and issued warnings to 27 game operators during its campaign against vulgar online content...

Someone?s Mutant Power Appears to be M&A

Posted on August 31, 2009
Just saw this news: The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E. Wow. This is huge, and not just for all us geeks out there...

International Trade, Offshoring & US Wages

Posted on August 31, 2009
Good article at VoxEU on the effect of offshoring on US wages, reporting on a study by Berkeley’s Ann Harison, et al. Here is a summary: This column revisits the heated debate over international trade, offshoring, and US wages using new data. It says that increased international exchange with low-income countries has depressed US wages...

Goldman Sachs and the Importance of Good Timing

Posted on August 31, 2009
Both of these stories came into my Inbox today: Goldman Sachs Says China Stocks Remain ‘Bright Spot’ China stocks remain ?a bright spot? among global equities because of the nation?s strong growth potential, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said...

Seriously, Why All the Fuss About Taking Executed Prisoners? Organs?

Posted on August 28, 2009
Since China announced a new organ donation system this week, the amount of press coverage of the story has been overwhelming. The more sensational bits discuss the “scandal” that has been confirmed about China’s reliance on executed prisoners for transplant organs...

China WTO Accession Retrospective - some good reading

Posted on August 28, 2009
It seems such a long time ago now, but China?s joining of the WTO only occurred eight years ago, in November 2001. Today it is taken for granted. However, without doubt there was a pre-WTO China, and a post-WTO China, and the two beasts have proven to be very different...

A Trade Twofer - Chinese Company Violates Two Kinds of US Trade Laws

Posted on August 28, 2009
Half of my readership always writes to me complaining that I spend too much time on product quality disputes. “Why so many posts on contaminated toothpaste and toxic dog food? Stick to the sexy trade stories, like anti-dumping.” The other half says that anti-dumping and WTO disputes are too technical and boring...

Breaking China News: People Getting Older

Posted on August 27, 2009
No real news here, but I was amused by the following article, which had the breathless headline: China’s Aged Population Growing At Fastest Rate in 60 Years Here’s the ’scoop’: China’s aged population is growing at its fastest rate since 1949, the China National Committee on Aging said Wednesday...

?Curbs on Overcapacity?: What Year is This?

Posted on August 27, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I think that this new government initiative could have been instituted anytime during the past five years (if not longer): China’s Cabinet said yesterday it will try to curb overcapacity and excessive investment in industries including steel and cement - a possible side effect of its massive stimulus [...

End of An Era ? RIP Edward Kennedy

Posted on August 26, 2009
A very sad day. Senator Ted Kennedy, dead of brain cancer at the age of 77. I am proud to say that while I was a Massachusetts resident in the 1990s, I had the honor of voting for the man for reelection to the US Senate. They really don’t make them like they used to...

China?s Stock Market Fetish

Posted on August 26, 2009
I finally saw a story on the stock market that made me realize the complete disconnect between reality and fantasy. This is not a China story — one could find lots of loony speculators, brokers and market analysts in the U.S., or UK, etc. But the recent gyrations of the market here tell me that it [...

Pierre Cardin China IP Deal Sounds Fishy To Me

Posted on August 26, 2009
A Shanghai-based company said yesterday that it is buying the Chinese licenses of French fashion giant Pierre Cardin, but other media reports indicate the deal may be clouded by prior agreements with other potential purchasers. Shanghai Century Star Imp & Exp Corp, a unit of state-owned China National Garments Group Corp, reached an initial agreement with [...

New Organ Donation System in China

Posted on August 26, 2009
The Red Cross Society of China and the Ministry of Health Tuesday announced the launch of an organ donation system in 10 provinces and cities in a pilot initiative to speed up organ transplants. The pilot regions are the provinces of Liaoning, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Jiangxi and the cities of Tianjin, Shanghai, [...

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