China Hearsay: International Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> International Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

International Law

China Hearsay

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

Post Frequency: 8.4/day

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

China Internet Death by 2010?

Posted on September 25, 2008
Interesting story in China Tech News, although that first sentence is a bit melodramatic (as is my post title): The Internet in China may soon run out. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, under the current allocation speed, China’s IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no [...

DRM Hell

Posted on September 25, 2008
So you got IP problems with your digital media product? Here’s a cool idea. Let’s figure out a way to piss off all your customers, limiting sales and killing the buzz you’ve spent years developing about the release of your product. Excellent, but how to do it? How about slapping on some severe digital rights management [...

Why Not Just Sue the Bastards?

Posted on September 23, 2008
Excellent post by Tom Chow on litigation and the recent milk scandal. This is in response to a nice little article in the Christian Science Monitor: A case that in the United States would attract swarms of lawyers eyeing the prospect of millions of dollars in damages is [...

There Goes the Neighborhood

Posted on September 23, 2008
China Investment Corp, the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, is seeking to hire 30 people with global investment expertise as part of expansion plans. The manager of China’s US$200 billion fund is recruiting for positions in equity and fixed income investment and alternative assets, up until October 5, Bloomberg News said...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Pirate Server Operators Busted in Jiangsu

Posted on September 23, 2008
Five people in Jiangsu province’s Donghai county were arrested for the illegal sale of items from Shanda’s (Nasdaq: SNDA) in-house developed MMORPG "The World of Legend" after downloading client-end programs and running private servers for the game, reports Xinhuanet...

Eichengreen on the Financial Crisis

Posted on September 23, 2008
Along with everyone else, I have been reading countless articles and political diatribes on the U.S./global economic crisis. This is not entirely a new set of circumstances, so a lot of this stuff is familiar. However, for someone who is not a finance guy, I can get lost in the tall grass pretty quick...

Feeling a Bit Queasy

Posted on September 22, 2008
The journalist’s new best friend — any story involving Chinese food and illness. Get used to it. Here’s an example from our friends in Tokyo, courtesy of Yahoo: Two employees of a Japanese confectionery company fell sick after eating China-made bean paste in the latest apparent food scare here, police and the firm said Saturday...

Fun with Reciprocity

Posted on September 22, 2008
Fund managers associated with the Chinese government have indirectly confirmed they were interested in picking up the stakes, probably at distress prices, in Morgan Stanley, which is battling for survival. But they worry that the US government will block any such move by the newly created China Investment Corporation...

Well, That Was Fun

Posted on September 20, 2008
I refer of course to the entire Olympic/Paralympic period. Over and done with, let’s get back to work. But first, one tangential post. I spent most of this week in Lijiang, a great little tourist trap in Yunnan. I don’t mind tourist traps all that much, unlike the cultural purists out there who really dig squatting [...

What Exactly Did You Expect?

Posted on September 11, 2008
My question is not rhetorical, and it is addressed to foreign companies doing business in China. From the Wall Street Journal: “Our members felt the regulatory climate has failed to keep pace with China’s growth, and there’s growing economic nationalism that’s of concern to us,” said Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce [...

Choice of Law & China Enforcement

Posted on September 11, 2008
Since I smacked Will Lewis around a bit yesterday, it is fitting that I send out a recommendation for his post on choice of law clauses (in the sales context). As a practitioner, I usually do not delve this deeply into the academic arena on this sort of issue, but it certainly is interesting...

Best Summary of U.S. Politics Ever

Posted on September 10, 2008
This is off topic for me, but this political analysis (which applies not just to the current U.S. presidential election, but to democracy in general) is so cogent that I’m making an exception: When faced with a choice between the guy that’s telling them that nothing has to change and everything is okay, and the guy [...

A China HR No-no

Posted on September 10, 2008
Dan at CLB, in discussing the dangers of hiring individual contractors over here, gives up prematurely on his post: [I]f you are using Chinese nationals for your business in China and doing so by any method other than by using a third party company, you run a substantial risk of having these people be deemed to [...

But Will Anyone Care?

Posted on September 10, 2008
IP Dragon reports on an IP rights protection program in Shanghai: Next month you can find in Shanghai 100 shops that have a ? (zhen1) sign in their window, which means that they only sell genuine products. The Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration will control and coordinate the distribution of the signboards...

How Chinese View the U.S. Election

Posted on September 08, 2008
These sorts of articles are usually amusing, and this one in the LA Times does not disappoint. Chock full of oversimplification, unclear as to the thesis, and unintentionally funny in several instances. Let’s take a look: The Americans are doing it again, mystifying the masses here with their weird, weird presidential elections...

The Lexus and the Loony

Posted on September 08, 2008
I don’t think Thomas Friedman understands how governance in China works. What a shock. From his Meet the Press appearance yesterday: MR. BROKAW: You have an intriguing proposition in this book. You’d like to be China for a day, just one day...

AML Rollout Proceeding According to Plan

Posted on September 08, 2008
Well, that’s my opinion on our experience with the new Anti-monopoly Law thus far. Here’s the latest news: The No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing on Thursday rejected an anti-monopoly case considered the first of its kind in China, the Beijing Times reported...

Follow Up to Huiyuan & the US Election

Posted on September 08, 2008
Just a quick explanatory note to my earlier post on the Coke-Huiyuan deal, protectionism, and the US election. Seem to be a lot of links floating around out there to that post, and for some reason (Will Lewis, I’m looking in your direction and shaking my fist in a sardonic, Jon Stewart-esque mock anger gesture), [...

Brief Note on Coke-Huiyuan

Posted on September 04, 2008
I finally found something interesting about this deal. (If you haven’t heard, Coke announced a takeover deal of a big Chinese juice company. Big money, big brand, big news the last two days.) What’s interesting is the news coverage, which varies considerably depending upon, I believe, the experience of the reporter writing the article...

Wanfang Data and the Benefits of Copyright Infringement

Posted on September 04, 2008
The facts: According to Beijing Chaoyang People’s Court, 480 academics have sued Wanfang Data, an Internet information contents provider in China, for illegally including their dissertations in Wanfang’s data resource system and its dissertation database called Dissertations of China...

Microsoft Plays the Piracy Card

Posted on September 03, 2008
Not a lot of news today, aside from the mega-acquisition announced by Coca-Cola of a Chinese juice company. Exciting, but not much to talk about, for me at least. On the other hand, we have Microsoft, which is an early target of China’s new Anti-monopoly law, potentially using software piracy as a defense...

Thoughts on the SCO

Posted on September 02, 2008
Not much in the way of interesting China news today for some reason. This article on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (take a look at the Wiki on it) is worth a read, however. Here’s a taste to whet your appetite: The current disagreement between Russia and the United States over the Georgian conflict has strengthened [...

Wisdom from the Hutong on China Biz Books

Posted on September 01, 2008
Gotta go along with David’s comments on China biz books: [T]he longer you live here, the more difficult it becomes to find a book on business in China that adds much to your own store of observations and conclusions[.] To be honest, I don’t read that stuff anymore...

Kristof Goes Online in China

Posted on August 28, 2008
Kinda surprised me reading Kristof’s latest China column in the New York Times. His recent stuff has been very heavy into the whole Darfur-China connection, some criticism centered around the Olympics, etc. Frankly I tuned out after a while — the press treatment of China was becoming so heavy over the last couple of months [...

Links of the Day

Posted on August 28, 2008
Been playing around with Google Reader since I moved back from Bloglines recently. I’m trying to use the "sharing" function to some advantage, but it’s a work in progress. For the time being, links to my shared items are being displayed on the right side of the page, fairly near the top, under the imaginative title [...

Olympics Post-script

Posted on August 28, 2008
Seems like it is finally safe to climb out of the self-imposed cave I’ve been hiding in the past two weeks. All the media coverage of the Games was too much for me, so I sat it out for the duration, more or less. As to the Games themselves, I mostly stayed away from them...

Parade of Horribles (China Law edition)

Posted on August 21, 2008
Ten Worst PRC Laws, According to FP (Warning: wonky law post ahead. This is your last chance to bail out.) Interesting list of what Foreign Policy considers to be the worst of the worst. I generally like FP a lot, and since I am a part-time foreign policy wonk, you gotta keep up with the literature...

Someone Should Lose Their Job Over This

Posted on August 21, 2008
I’ve tried to maintain radio silence during the Olympics. Let the games go on, and all that. I am forced to break that rule because of this headline: King Kobe Rules "Bling Dynasty" in China from our good friends at the Guardian. This is unspeakable editorial misconduct that deserves a very loud groan at the very [...

Annual tradition

Posted on August 16, 2008
Once again, probably for something like the 426th time in the past 10 years, I am enjoying the process of looking for and renting an apartment here in Beijing. The search was relatively painless this year, although prices are certainly higher. As usual, unfortunately, the negotiation with the landlord and the broker is (as of [...

So Far, So Good

Posted on August 15, 2008
I’ve been laying low (from a blogging perspective) during the past week. As I’m not much of a sports fan, at least in the absence of the NFL, it makes sense for me to leave the field to folks who actually know something about the Olympics...

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

Eminent Domain in China: Private property rights law opens the door to capitalism
by Priya Prakash Royal'The revision of the property law delivers a...

Conflict between Child Custody Laws of China and the United States
A recently-decided case in Massachusetts sheds light on the growin...

Eminent Domain in China: Nail House Rock
What will the new property law in China hold for one woman’s...

China's Eminent Domain: Nail House Down
by Priya Prakash RoyalThe nail house was demolished, but the Chine...