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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

When Celebrities Attack: Why It?s Always Best to Ignore Their ?Political? Statements

Posted on April 20, 2009
I pretty much always ignore celebrities when they start talking politics. They usually say something stupid and uninformed, and they get a lot more attention from the press when doing it. Richard Gere anyone? So it probably goes without saying that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to listen to Jackie Chan on political philosophy, [...

GM?s China Expansion Plans

Posted on April 20, 2009
Call me crazy, but I don’t think this is going to play well in Michigan (or Ohio, or Indiana, etc.): General Motors Corp., shuttering U.S. plants in a bid to avoid bankruptcy, is ?likely? to build a new factory in China on surging demand. ?Operations in China are profitable and in the future China can finance its [...

Don?t F&@# With the Mouse: Disney Schools Go After Customers Early

Posted on April 20, 2009
I don’t know, I guess there’s nothing wrong with Disney getting into the early education business in Shanghai. So why does this feel so wrong? Mickey Mouse has a new job in China: teaching kids how to speak English at new schools owned by Walt Disney Co...

Environmental Protection, Economic Growth and the Recession

Posted on April 20, 2009
Environmentalists say they worry that the government has squandered a chance to use the downturn to put China on a cleaner growth path, and has instead laid the foundation for another toxic cycle of hypergrowth. (New York Times) Good article in the NYT about a worrisome issue...

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Jim McGregor Gives Obama?s China Team Thumbs-up

Posted on April 18, 2009
After a meeting in D.C. with administration officials talking China policy, here’s a summary from Jim (I omitted the intro — full text is on the JLM site): The Obama administration officials who served under Clinton — and sat on the sidelines watching Rumsfeld and Cheney for the past eight years — have taken the lessons [...

Why Do People Infringe on Copyrights? Because They Can

Posted on April 18, 2009
More evidence that public awareness campaigns are a waste of time and that only strong IP enforcement will solve the problem. People will continue to download copyrighted content because they can, it’s human nature. Simply telling them it’s wrong is insufficient...

Speaking of Lazy Journalism

Posted on April 18, 2009
China?s engine of economic growth, the envy of the world for years, has finally lost some of its steam, posting its worst quarterly GDP growth in nearly two decades. But private equity investors who have bet heavily on that country?s breathtaking growth remain positive about its recovery...

Friday Photos: Beijing Horticultural Experiment

Posted on April 17, 2009
No exciting excursions this week, so no breathtaking views of a Beijing tourist attraction for your viewing pleasure today. On the other hand, this week saw the culmination of a long-awaited scientific experiment that took place right here in capital city, specifically my apartment...

What?s Wrong with Western Press Coverage of China?

Posted on April 17, 2009
Timothy Garten Ash poses this question in a really interesting Op/Ed in the LA Times. Ash ultimately pronounces the biggest problem being a lack of volume of China stories. I agree that is a big problem, but I’m not sure that is the most significant one...

Is the Recession Over? Check Back at the End of the Year

Posted on April 17, 2009
I’ve been critical of all the happy happy news items of late crowing about China’s rebounding economy. Why? Because a lot of this is based on incomplete data, much of it a result of some good March numbers. It goes without saying that we need to wait a few months to see if these positive economic [...

Wow! Blizzard Switches WoW Licensee in China

Posted on April 16, 2009
This has been rumored for some time now, but it’s still big news (h/t China Tech News): The rumors have proven true: Blizzard Entertainment Inc. is not renewing its online game contract in China with The9, choosing instead to move the World of Warcraft game to a subsidiary of Chinese Web portal NetEase...

Geithner Blinks: US Says China is Not a Currency Manipulator

Posted on April 16, 2009
This is a follow up to yesterday’s post on Treasury’s semi-annual report on international exchange rate policies. We go through this “will they or won’t they?” dance every time with respect to China, and all throughout the Bush administration, the answer was “no, they won’t” label China a currency manipulator, much to the chagrin of some [...

Real Pirates Take Back ?Piracy? from IP Community

Posted on April 16, 2009
All the talk of pirates from Somalia has this IP lawyer a bit miffed. I’ve gotten used to using the terms “piracy” and “pirate” to describe activities and people related to infringement of intellectual property rights. Unfortunately it looks like I will have to curtail my pirate language in the future so folks do not [...

Schneider Patent Case to be Settled

Posted on April 15, 2009
You remember this one? The largest ever patent decision against a foreign company in China? It’s been a while, so here’s a reminder (from Reuters): France’s Schneider Electric lost a patent infringement lawsuit in China on Saturday and was ordered to pay 335 million yuan ($44...

Bilateral Trade and China Bashing

Posted on April 15, 2009
Intriguing post by Will Lewis on a study about the relationship between U.S.-China trade stats and China bashing in the US of A: A few weeks ago, George Mason University economists Carlos Ramirez and Rong Rong gave us a handy tool, available free of charge at SSRN, for predicting the US news cycle on bad stuff [...

Well, You Don?t See Something Like That Very Often

Posted on April 15, 2009
Seriously, some folks have too much time on their hands. If you do too, check out the latest in advertising weirdness from Little Red Book. Tags: China News � Stan for China Hearsay, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

The Allure of the ?China Recovery? Story

Posted on April 14, 2009
Since March stats here had some bright spots, some folks (inside and outside government) have been talking up the Chinese economy, some going so far as to say that the bottom has been reached and that recovery is just around the corner. I think this is a bit premature for a variety of reasons, not the [...

China IP and Obama?s RIAA Mafia

Posted on April 14, 2009
Readers of this blog know about the Recording Industry Association of America, the RIAA. They are an industry group that represents a lot of copyright owners, a lot of very large and wealthy companies. The RIAA is very active politically and is one of the loudest/most influential when it comes to lobbying the U...

Those Must Be Some Magical Mushrooms

Posted on April 14, 2009
From the AP: Cornell University is giving China back a precious trove of mushrooms smuggled to the United States at the start of World War II. Shu Chun Teng (tung) was China’s premier expert on fungi after studying at Cornell in the 1920s. He spent a decade traveling on horseback through his homeland, gathering up molds, lichens, [...

Idiotic China Stock Market Blather

Posted on April 14, 2009
I guess making fun of Wall Street is a relatively easy thing to do these days since the financial services sector has driven the world economy into a ditch. We’ve fallen, and it’s going to be difficult to get back up again. Anyway, I think it’s still important to point out when the Wall St...

Greentech and Foreign Suppliers in China

Posted on April 14, 2009
That post title is a bit ambitious. I only want to make one substantive point about foreign companies in China doing business in the greentech/cleantech area. The topic came to mind when I read a great post (as usual) at CEL on the subject today. Charlie was passing along the following news: The State Council on Monday [...

Will They Or Won?t They? The Annual U.S. Report on Currency Manipulation

Posted on April 14, 2009
We go through this every year. The Bush administration was never able to pull the trigger and label China as a currency manipulator, despite some very aggressive lobbying by industry groups. For the record, I’m not in favor of purposely embarassing China on an issue over which they have no feasible policy options at the present [...

China Uses Soft Power with ASEAN

Posted on April 13, 2009
One of the big recent themes in the international press regarding China is the notion that the Middle Kingdom will come out of the Great Recession in much better shape than other nations, particularly the U.S. I wrote on this recently (see previous post here), disagreeing generally with this notion...

China Official Goes Off Message

Posted on April 13, 2009
Forbes reports on a pessimistic comment made by a Bank of China official. This is in marked contrast to the positive “the China economy has turned around” pronouncements we have heard the last few days. I wonder what the punishment is for not maintaining PR discipline? China’s economy is unlikely to hit bottom soon and needs [...

Texas and Asian Names ? follow up

Posted on April 12, 2009
Quick follow up to my post from last week on the sad story of Rep. Betty Brown, who unfortunately was caught in the act of suggesting that Asians change their names (i.e. use English names) when in the U.S. to make the voting process easier. My comment was that while my preferred policy choice is to [...

Happy Happy China Economy Stories

Posted on April 12, 2009
That’s all I’ve been reading this weekend, articles talking up the Chinese economy, which is “showing signs” of a recovery. We’ll see what happens over the next few months, but at the moment, the press is generally being kind...

Friday Photos ? Houhai

Posted on April 10, 2009
To balance out that boring/esoteric post on the global reserve currency debate, here are some photos taken last night at Houhai. For the uninitiated, Houhai is a lake in the central part of Beijing that was developed several years ago. It now has a large number of bars and restaurants surrounding the water and is [...

Texas to Chinese Residents: Use an English Name

Posted on April 10, 2009
This story popped out of my usual US politics reading, but as it has a China connection and is fun, what the hell, let’s talk about it. The context: a Texas state committee hearing on election fraud issues. The people were debating voter ID systems, one topic being how to appropriately handle foreign names...

Bergsten on the Reserve Currency Issue

Posted on April 10, 2009
There has been a huge amount of commentary out there on the issue of whether the world needs a new reserve currency (currently the US dollar), and if yes, what that would look like. This comes after the idea was publicly floated by Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the Bank of China...

China FDI History Repeats Itself

Posted on April 09, 2009
You may recall a recent post of mine about Venture Capital and Private Equity, wherein I pointed out, among other things, that the preferred investment structures have been a bit more risky than you might think. I also drew a comparison between the standard Joint Venture problems we see in China and the disputes between VC/PE [...

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