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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

Headlines We Could Do Without

Posted on August 12, 2009
China’s Green Leap Forward This is apparently how some editors show off their deep knowledge of Chinese history. Mommy, please make it go away. By the way, the article itself is pretty good and worth a read. Don’t judge a book by its cover...

Japan With Nukes? I Beg to Differ

Posted on August 12, 2009
Funny who can be considered an expert on a subject these days. A newspaper in Japan interviewed one of the two surviving crewmembers of the Enola Gay (plane that dropped the first nuke on Japan in 1945). So of course they asked him about Asian foreign relations, military strategy, Japan’s interaction with China and North Korea [...

US Senate Goes After Foreign (esp. Chinese) Manufacturers

Posted on August 12, 2009
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to help victims of tainted Chinese drywall hold foreign manufacturers more accountable for their defective products. The Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2009 would cut down on the red tape Americans face when they try to sue foreign companies...

The Market for Entry-level Expats in China

Posted on August 11, 2009
Article in the Times yesterday will no doubt get a lot of play in the expat community. The premise (my comments after the jump): Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college graduates who face unemployment nearing double digits at home...

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China Emulating Big British Brother?

Posted on August 11, 2009
The police have installed 2.75 million surveillance cameras since 2003 and are expanding the system into the countryside, the Public Security Ministry said Monday on its Web site. The cameras are the most visible part of police surveillance and notification systems around the country, mainly in urban areas...

Obama Administration Prefers Not To Rock The Trade Policy Boat

Posted on August 11, 2009
Remember back during the US presidential campaign when American bloggers like me were endlessly speculating on what sort of trade policy an Obama Administration would follow? The worry was that things would lurch to the left, at least for a while, in a similar fashion to what happened during the first Clinton Administration...

Why the Chinese Government is Better Than the Republican Party

Posted on August 10, 2009
Found this little gem in The Guardian, written last week during the US-China S&ED talks. The author compares Beijing to the Republican party in D.C. and concludes that the Obama Administration is making much more progress with China than the GOP, the reasons being:(More) � Stan for China Hearsay, 2009...

Stan Goes On A Tirade Against ?Fair Trade?

Posted on August 10, 2009
I’ve been sitting on an odd little post from Shanghaiist for quite a few days now. I wasn’t sure how to respond since it made me so mad that steam came out of my ears for several days, and I wasn’t able to write a coherent rebuttal. Even now, I worry that I’ve crossed the [...

Would the Jury System Work in China?

Posted on August 10, 2009
Saw this the other day on the FP Passport blog, and it got me thinking: For decades, all that Japan knew of jury trials came from foreign legal dramas. Now, for the first time since 1943, Japan is watching a real jury decide the fate of a criminal, as six “lay judges” join three [...

Rule of Law: Organic Food Edition

Posted on August 09, 2009
It’s a wet and sleepy Sunday afternoon, so nothing too heavy here. Simple point: although I usually talk about rule of law in China within the context of unpopular criminal cases or intellectual property issues, I should emphasize more often that it touches a great many subjects and has a very profound impact on society [...

Nine Hours I?ll Never Get Back

Posted on August 08, 2009
Today was the day my wife and I engaged in the annual pleasure fest that is apartment hunting. We do this just about every year for some reason, and next week we will be moving into our eighth (or ninth?) Beijing apartment. It only took a few days to find the right place this time, which [...

CCTV Bribery Case

Posted on August 07, 2009
Another fun criminal case, my focus for the week. When I first saw the headline, I immediately wondered what could be so interesting about this specific instance of bribery in the news biz in China that it could be a criminal offense. Let’s face it, if you put every reporter in jail who had accepted money [...

Using Cultural Heritage to Promote Patriotism

Posted on August 07, 2009
A senior Chinese leader on Thursday called for the use of historical and cultural heritage as a platform to promote patriotism, particularly among the country’s young people. (Xinhua) I’m not a big fan of either culture or patriotism, so I can’t say that this type of policy fares well with me...

Finally, A Verdict We Can All Believe In

Posted on August 07, 2009
Justice, sweet justice. These freaky bastards should have been put in a labor camp a long time ago, but better late than never. (Photo lifted from Shanghaiist.) Tags: China News � Stan for China Hearsay, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del...

Romanticizing the Pre-tech Days

Posted on August 07, 2009
As much as I enjoy reading about new technology and upgrading the toys I’ve collected at home, I do have major qualms about how that technology impacts us at work. That is to say, I’m no Luddite, and I’d be lost without a PC and a reasonably fast connect speed...

My Favorite China Plague Headlines

Posted on August 06, 2009
Somehow I get the feeling that the press is enjoying this whole plague story just a little too much. Sure, it’s a virulent bug, but if treated with anti-biotics, the mortality rate is pretty low. But there is something strangely compelling about the Black Death in a nostalgic, Chaucerian way...

China?s Largest Bank Fraud Case

Posted on August 06, 2009
To round out today’s crime news, here’s a fraud case that could involve as much as RMB 9 billion. Details are emerging of China?s largest suspected bank fraud after the former chairman of a company listed on London?s Alternative Investment Market appeared in a Chinese court last week...

Guangdong Student Has Very Bad Day

Posted on August 06, 2009
I seem to be writing about criminal prosecution today. So be it. This one is kind of sad. A university student was sentenced to three years’ prison for accidentally killing a woman when he landed on her while trying to commit suicide by jumping from his 7th floor dormitory in Guangzhou...

China?s Response to Ponzi Schemes

Posted on August 06, 2009
Bernie Madoff is lucky to be an American: China executed two business people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of more than $127 million, calling the scam a serious blow to social stability, state media said Thursday. Though usually reserved for violent crimes, death sentences are also applied for nonviolent offenses that involve large [...

The Trials and Tribulations of Outward Investment

Posted on August 05, 2009
How’s that big outward investment program going? Er, not so great. About 100 Algerians and Chinese migrant workers fought with knives and bludgeons in the capital Algiers, witnesses said on Tuesday, in an unprecedented flare-up of local anger at Chinese immigration...

Today?s Market Report, Brought to You By Our Crackerjack Financial Press

Posted on August 05, 2009
I had so much fun yesterday crapping all over the financial press that I thought I’d try it again today. What do you know, a cursory glance at the headlines revealed the following gems:(More) � Stan for China Hearsay, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del...

China?s Harmonious Legal System II: Harmonious Mediation

Posted on August 05, 2009
The other day I commented on a speech given by the Chief Justice of China’s Supreme People’s Court, which discussed judges, judicial training and the principles of China’s harmonious society. My reaction was that we were headed into another period of time where the goals of the harmonious society would be emphasized by the government [...

Why the Financial Press is a Joke

Posted on August 04, 2009
I guess it all depends on your point of view, but I just read two different articles, discussing stock market activity in two different parts of the world, and the conclusions are puzzling to say the least. Note: read no further if you are easily confused, are a member of the financial press, or if graphic [...

It?s Funny Because It?s True: Goldman Sachs Edition

Posted on August 04, 2009
Sometimes “professional” investment research resembles little more than a day trader rag with nicer charts and fancier wording to make the reader feel less guilty and more professional about the kind of “investing” he or she is actually performing...

Too Early To Pass Judgment on China?s Competition Law?

Posted on August 04, 2009
Well, we have been living with the Anti-monopoly Law for a year now, at least parts of it, so it makes sense for some folks to talk about how things are going. Today’s FT article on the subject attempted a progress report, but I think it succeeded more in showing how much we do not yet [...

Rebalancing US and China Economies

Posted on August 04, 2009
An Op/Ed by Shen Minggao that ran today in Caijing (English) is well worth a read. It covers trade, currency, savings vs. consumption — all your favorite hot bilateral topics. It’s not technical, so sit back with a beer and enjoy. The Need to Rebalance Both the Chinese and U...

Holy Crap!, It?s An Asset Bubble

Posted on August 04, 2009
I kinda thought this was common knowledge and had been so for many weeks now, but for some reason there has been a flurry of commentary on China’s asset bubbles over the past couple of days. Remember when the government came out last week and told us all that it would be slowing things down a [...

China?s Harmonious Judges

Posted on August 03, 2009
Are judges cold, robotic bastions of pure logic or real human beings that live in a society and take life experience into account when making decisions? Which one is preferable? Looks like that argument has gotten air time lately in both China and the US...

My Application to the China Space Program Does Not Look Promising

Posted on August 03, 2009
I had such high hopes for blasting into space as a Taikonaut, but it looks like it ain’t gonna happen. No scars, no history of serious illness in the last three generations of your family, and no tooth cavities. These are amongst the 100 health requirements for would-be astronauts vying to be part of China’s next space [...

Obama Beer Summit Offers Lessons For International Business?

Posted on August 03, 2009
Last week, President Obama sat down with two gentlemen who had a slight disagreement. One was a Professor at Harvard University who had to break into his own home after misplacing his keys (he was back after a trip to Beijing), and the other was the policeman who arrested him for doing so...

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