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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

Drop in Purchase of Fakes II

Posted on December 09, 2008
An interesting comment to yesterday’s post on the drop in purchases of pirated goods. I thought this warranted a separate post: Very interesting entry! A few things: -How much is the fall of the mainland market affected by the lowered number of tourists this year? If it’s only SZ and HK, then this isn’t a factor...

Some Amusement for Your Monday

Posted on December 08, 2008
This is rather inspired stuff, I must say: In a landmark deal that could provide much-needed cash to America’s anemic economy, China agreed today to acquire the naming rights to the U.S. for a reported $1.4 trillion. The deal, which is expected to be signed by President George W...

Piracy, Luxury Goods, and Recession

Posted on December 08, 2008
This article from FT last week (which I finally read today) is thought provoking. Here’s the interesting part: Not even the black economy, it seems, can escape grim news. Over in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, one perennially thriving “black market” has been experiencing leaner times...

An Obama Trip to China ? leaping off the bandwagon

Posted on December 08, 2008
A small bit of buzz over the past few days from this article in Newsweek by Jeffrey Garten, who makes the following suggestion: Barack Obama’s first overseas trip should be to China, and it should occur within a month after his inauguration on January 20...

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Investigation Orders in IP Cases

Posted on December 04, 2008
We’ve come a very long way with civil procedure here in China: Recently, Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court plans to try new measures in its IP tribunal, according to which, the court can issue investigation orders to lawyers to authorize them the right to investigate to some extent...

Stupid Market Monkeys

Posted on December 04, 2008
This is a few days old, but since it made me smile when I saw it, I believe that it warrants a post. He makes a good point (FP blog): How could investors possibly be surprised that the U.S. economy is in recession? This is animal spirits in action, folks: Investors were in full retreat yesterday, [...

Great Case for Law School

Posted on December 03, 2008
As soon as I read this article in Wired, I immediately thought it would make an excellent case study for a law school class. Haven’t seen anything this good in a while. (Sorry, this has nothing at all to do with China.) The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a regulatory ruling requiring the country’s airlines [...

Some Positive China Biz News - R&D

Posted on December 03, 2008
Looks like the R&D sector is doing well despite the Big Slowdown. Nice article on this in Shanghai Daily, which includes not only great publicity for David Wolf, but also this nugget: In an indication that it is looking to further expand its R&D operation, Dow is set to move into a new state-of-the-art facility [...

Perspective

Posted on December 03, 2008
First I saw this headline: "China’s Economy, in Need of Jump Start, Waits for Citizens’ Fists." I thought the article was about unemployment, instability, labor unrest, lots of negative nasty stuff. Then I saw the entire headline: "China’s Economy, in Need of Jump Start, Waits for Citizens’ Fists to Loosen...

The Music Gap

Posted on December 02, 2008
Another excellent missive by my favorite columnist: America outspends China on defense by a margin of more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. [1] In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the United States...

Doomed to Repeat It?

Posted on December 02, 2008
Anybody else with a passing familiarity with Qing Dynasty history feel weird when you read this? China’s Ministry of Railways (MOR) will encourage the foreigners to invest in China’s railway construction or passenger and freight transportation businesses which shall be controlled by the State...

Income Inequality, Salaries & Greed

Posted on December 01, 2008
Apologies in advance for a post that may, before I’m done, become a bit disorganized. So I’m currently reading the World Bank China Report (Q3-2008). Lots of the usual stuff about the economic downturn, along with many instances of the word "balancing"...

China Blog Awards Time

Posted on December 01, 2008
Yes, it’s time for needless self promotion from your favorite China bloggers, motivated by the annual awards thing from Chinalyst. I’m a cynical bastard, so I don’t go in for the usual competitive stuff, but when the voting starts, I do like to write a preemptive post before people send me emails and ask which blogs [...

Desperate Times

Posted on December 01, 2008
Doesn’t happen often, but I disagree with Rich over an economic policy issue. Here’s his take on part of the fiscal stimulus package: With many looking to China to buy up demand that has fallen off, I thought I would highlight one of the recent articles that I think frames some of the poor decisions that [...

China Staff Stuff

Posted on November 27, 2008
From Dan at CLB: Interesting article by James Hudson over at China Success Stories. Article is entitled, "Want Committed Employees? Learn to Trust Them." Its thesis is that if you want your Chinese employee to work hard for the company, like the company, and do what he or she can for the company, you, [...

Neither a Drunkard Nor a Pirate Be

Posted on November 27, 2008
Diageo finally won its case against Blueblood this week in Shanghai court. The unfair competition case was a fairly straightforward one, involving similar packaging, including color and style, misleading ads, and so forth. Diageo had earlier prevailed in what I believe was an administrative action, for which Blueblood paid a fine...

Getting a Bit Crowded in Here

Posted on November 26, 2008
Has anyone else noticed that on an average day, roughly 1.3 new Chinese MMORPGs (one suspects history-based games) are being rolled out? Not sure how these are all being funded, although it does seem that any decent sized IT, advertising, or media/entertainment company is developing and/or operating their own game these days...

Comparative Thoughts on Infrastructure Spending

Posted on November 25, 2008
Just a brief thought that popped into my mind. This doesn’t happen very often, so it’s worth writing down. Both the U.S. and PRC are considering massive spending on infrastructure in the coming months and years. China has been ramping up such projects for years now and has a gigantic workforce to draw upon, in particular [...

Misc. China Stuff from Newsweek

Posted on November 24, 2008
Newsweek is chock full of China-y goodness this week. To wit: 1. Why Beijing is in a Risky Place This is a doom and gloom article that says China’s economy is not even close to being decoupled from the U.S. (and presumably the rest of the West), that the shock to exports/manufacturing sector will be horrendous, and [...

Harmonious Litigation

Posted on November 24, 2008
Keeping with my recent litigation theme is this nugget from Xinhua: A senior official of the Communist Party of China on Wednesday urged relevant departments to clear up long-delayed court verdicts to maintain social stability in face of the global financial crisis...

Prioritizing the Environment

Posted on November 23, 2008
Saw the following post title a few days ago on Crossroads: Environment to suffer for sake of short-term economic growth? I wondered why Crossroads was doing a post on U.S. economic and environmental policy. Silly me, it was about China all along. Funny how so many countries around the world right now are experiencing the exact same economic [...

Games, Vomiting & Litigation

Posted on November 18, 2008
I’ve been writing a lot about computer game litigation in China, and while there are a lot of lawsuits out there to enjoy, I thought it might be worth a post to speculate on possible future litigation. No, I’m not trying to drum up business...

More Sympathy for Microsoft

Posted on November 18, 2008
I’ve been a bit of a booster for Microsoft’s recent anti-piracy efforts and have even praised on a number of occasions the Black Screen of Death. Others have followed suit, the latest being Imagethief: This is one of those unusual occasions on which I feel genuine sympathy for Microsoft, which has a hard time catching a [...

Why Do I Have to Put Up With Niall Ferguson?

Posted on November 17, 2008
From the guy who taught us why empire was a good thing (during the invasion of Iraq, if I remember correctly), comes this bit of insipid nonsense about the G20 meeting and the need for international cooperation: More than anything else, it has been China’s strategy of dollar reserve accumulation that has financed America’s debt [...

Even You, China, Can Not Avoid Pressure

Posted on November 17, 2008
Dan goes after Newsweek for labeling all of us in the PRC stress cases: But when one out of 1.3 billion Chinese loses it and commits murder, there are apparently all sorts of things we can and should extrapolate. In "Murder at the Drum Tower," Newsweek uses the knifing of the Minnesota couple inside Beijing’s [...

Tencent and the Labor Contract Law

Posted on November 12, 2008
Litigation is a whole lotta fun, particularly if you are looking at it from a good distance away. Game co. Tencent is getting in on the merriment in Shenzhen (h/t Chinatechnews): Chinese instant messaging and online game company Tencent has confirmed to local media that the company has formally sued 15 former employees who are suspected [...

Virtual Currency Tax: Who Will Declare?

Posted on November 12, 2008
Saw this a few days ago and just now figured out what was bothering me: Individuals will be taxed 3% on income earned from virtual currency trades, as specified by property transfer regulations, reports Beijing Evening News quoting a Beijing Local Taxation Bureau employee...

Getting Kind of Tired of the Beijing Bashing

Posted on November 12, 2008
Had enough of this during the run-up to the Olympics. From a really negative Asia Times article: With China’s opening up, more and more Westerners have come to work and live in Beijing. Many cherish the chance to witness its dramatic modernization, yet others have mixed feelings about a city which suffers from [...

Can They Keep Doing This With No Funding?

Posted on November 11, 2008
OK, "no funding" is not exactly an accurate picture of where things are at the moment. I was just wondering generally if these video sites can continue doing stuff like this now that the bottom has dropped out of VC/PE. From Pacific Epoch: Beijing-based online video site Youku...

Important Note from CDE

Posted on November 11, 2008
The economic situation is getting scarier, and we are seeing some of the social effects. China Briefing keeps this issue up front and center: Across China, multiple problems are arising with social unrest issues. Recent riots in Shenzhen over the accidental death of a bicyclist and outbreaks of minor, yet disturbing incidents in Shanghai and other [...

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