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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

Preposterous (Kung Fu) Panda Protest

Posted on June 18, 2008
H/T to the WSJ China blog for sending us this bit of nonsense, which is bound to get me in trouble: Dreamworks’ “Kung Fu Panda” has proven to be a champ in the U.S., where the film has grossed close to $120 million since opening on Jun...

Giving Up That Moral Highground

Posted on June 18, 2008
Many people ask how lawyers can advocate for a position they don’t believe in or, for criminal defense attorneys, advocate on behalf of someone they know is guilty. And then we have the case of U.S. government officials advocating for deregulation of the financial sector in China...

Industrial Policy for China?s Entertainment Industry

Posted on June 18, 2008
From the Hollywood Reporter (yes, I read that, so what?): Chinese filmmakers should work on more co-productions with overseas partners, a senior film industry regulator said Tuesday at the Shanghai International Film Festival. "All co-productions will be treated the same as domestic films in China," Jiang Ping, vice chairman of the Film Bureau of the [...

FDA China Offices Still a Work in Progress

Posted on June 18, 2008
Given that I first wrote about this many moons ago, I was starting to wonder whether this was ever really going to happen. There was such a huge push to put FDA inspectors on the ground here after the food and drug scares of 2007 that I thought maybe it was being fast-tracked...

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Perhaps My Last Post on Rule of Law

Posted on June 17, 2008
OK, I have written way too much on U.S. politics during the past couple of days, so consider this the last one for a while. I found the following in the Washington Post, a partial transcript of an interview Bush gave to Sky News during his recent European trip...

Chinglish Commentary on Obama

Posted on June 17, 2008
Political commentary from People’s Daily that is getting some buzz, for the wrong reasons: The skin color of Senator Barack Obama poses the greatest focus of attention in the ongoing U.S. presidential election campaign this year. This Democratic nominee with half of the blood from the African stock in his veins has been commended as the [...

Cheney on China

Posted on June 16, 2008
This is an instant classic (thanks AP) from that guy who done shot that other guy in the face: Vice President Dick Cheney’s office acknowledged on Thursday that he was mistaken when he asserted that China, at Cuba’s behest, is drilling for oil in waters 60 miles from the Florida coast...

Happy Money Party

Posted on June 16, 2008
Let’s start off the campaign season with a bang. H/T to Danwei for the info: Greetings Americans in China for Obama: This week officially kicks off the general election campaign for Barack Obama. It’s been a rigorous primary, but we have our nominee, and he’s already begun taking on McCain...

IP Stats and China?s Innovation Society

Posted on June 05, 2008
Time to get my IP lawyer geek on. I ran across an article a couple days ago on VOX EU, a great site for econ/trade policy issues. The topic here is innovation, specifically patents as an indicator of innovation. Great subject for China, since the government here decided a number of years ago that building [...

China IP Infringement and VC Risk

Posted on June 04, 2008
This post by Tom Melcher is a few days old, but intriguing enough to dig its way out of my Inbox: Two of China’s biggest video sharing sites just raised lots of money from prominent American VCs. Yet these sites publicly admit that almost all of their traffic is due to pirated video...

Are Expats Stinky?

Posted on June 04, 2008
Shanghaiist answers the age-old question: why can’t I buy a deodorant in China? And the answer will surprise you. It’s no surprise then that Unilever (the people who make Axe / Lynx, Sure, Impulse etc.) are dreaming of the 6 billion un-deodorised armpits across Asia with cash tills ringing in their ears and are currently cooking [...

People in Glass Houses

Posted on June 04, 2008
Oops, this doesn’t look so good for the muscular democracy crowd: Companies with a board member who has ties to a winning political party enjoy a significant bounce in their share price following an election, according to a study released on Monday...

Chinese Innovation and the Fa Piao Process

Posted on June 04, 2008
Great stuff from the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times: For a number of years I’ve been impressed with the wireless credit-card machines with which many European restaurants equip their wait-staff. This substitution saves workers time (and also that of their customers)...

Michael Milken, China Analyst?

Posted on June 03, 2008
I’m speechless at this Bloomberg piece: Michael Milken, the controversial financier and philanthropist, said China will overtake the U.S. economically this century, though for now the U.S. should concentrate on Mexico. “Our projections show the United States will be the world’s second-largest economy and India will be the third,” some time this [...

Those Clever Ambush Marketers

Posted on June 03, 2008
A New York Times reporter discusses his facility tour of sportswear company Li-Ning, including the interesting Olympics-themed posters on the wall: [M]ost of the posters feature Olympians who have endorsement deals with the company, including the United States table tennis team and dozens of Chinese athletes who will be hurdling and diving and somersaulting in Li-Ning [...

US Shakes Big Stick at China

Posted on June 03, 2008
Some helpful suggestions to China from the U.S. military: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a set of thinly veiled warnings to China on Saturday, cautioning that it could risk its share of further gains in Asia’s economic prosperity if it bullied its neighbors over natural resources in contested areas like the South China Sea...

Fuwa Follies

Posted on June 02, 2008
Upon returning home this weekend to ??100, I was shocked to discover that the courtyard had been infiltrated by these, uh, these things. I only freaked out a little bit, once I discovered that there were several of the creatures. My wife quickly pointed out that most of them were running out of air in their little [...

Hacker Hackery and the China Threat

Posted on June 02, 2008
The story of Chinese hackers being responsible for the 2003 Northeast blackout in the U.S. has been making the rounds in the Intertubes. This ridiculous story has been run by several respected news organizations, pushed by the US government, and has generally been circulated much more than it deserves...

A New Low for U.S. Politics

Posted on May 30, 2008
This is an amazing story, and even though it is way outside the scope of this blog, I gotta say something. Speaking in New Mexico on Memorial Day, Obama said a great-uncle had helped to liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II. "I had a uncle who was one of the, [...

IP Enforcement and Unintended Consequences

Posted on May 30, 2008
Nice IP enforcement article in Businessweek. The People’s Republic of China has long been a land of opportunity for copyright infringers. On Web sites such as Youku.com, unlicensed Western TV shows and Hollywood flicks are plentiful and free to all comers...

Jet Li Agrees With Me

Posted on May 30, 2008
Noticed the following nugget today (h/t Shanghaiist): Jet Li (???) has stepped out to criticise the use of rankings to keep track of which corporations/celebrities have donated the most toward earthquake relief, saying charity should not be measured in purely monetary terms and that there are a lot of people donating RMB1 or RMB5 when that [...

China Laptop Espionage?

Posted on May 30, 2008
This story was all over the Intertubes and Twitterverse today. U.S. officials are trying to determine of Chinese agents copied the contents of a Commerce Department laptop computer during a visit to Beijing by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez...

China Net-activism and the Rule of Law

Posted on May 28, 2008
A few hours after a message appeared on an Internet forum alleging relief tents destined for earthquake victims had been embezzled, millions of Internet users in China got outraged and prompted officials to investigate the scandal. A netizen who named himself “Peaceful Heart” posted a message exposing embezzlement of relief tents on a local Internet [...

The Value of a China LLM

Posted on May 28, 2008
Law Professor Donald Clarke, of Chinese Law Prof Blog fame, has compiled an extremely helpful compilation of views on the pros and cons of Westerners’ securing an advanced law degree, or LLM, from a Chinese law school. The compilation can be found here (h/t to China Esquire)...

China Econ Growth and Asia

Posted on May 28, 2008
Yet another fun post by Pettis, this one on China’s growth relative to other Asian countries. Pettis is looking primarily at data since 1949. China’s phenomenal recent growth rates look a little different from a comparative perspective when you look, for example, at countries like Japan, S...

Disabled Groups Not Happy With Beijing

Posted on May 27, 2008
This one is definitely going to get me into trouble. This story is already getting some play on the Internets and the Twitternets: Disabled groups reacted with outrage yesterday to an official guide for assistants at the Beijing Olympic Games that describes them as unsocial, stubborn and defensive...

Skyrocketing Software Revenue in China

Posted on May 27, 2008
This article raises a lot of questions in my very tired brain: China’s software industry revenue reached RMB 226.63 billion in the first four months of 2008 for an increase of 31.9 percent year-on-year, according to Ministry of Information Industry (MII) data released on Monday...

Sizzling Hot Forex Pours into China

Posted on May 27, 2008
Checking out Michael Pettis’s latest on China’s forex reserves is well worth the effort. April numbers have come in, and this @(%$ is unnerving, to say the least. Hot money anyone? Instead of reducing foreign exchange inflows, the appreciation of the RMB is causing massive hot money inflows (which is not at all surprising, but it [...

High Times at Narita

Posted on May 27, 2008
And now for something completely different. Meet me after the excerpt: A passenger who landed at Tokyo’s Narita airport over the weekend has ended up with a surprise souvenir courtesy of customs officials — a package of cannabis. Sniffer dogs failed to find the cannabis after it had been slipped into a passenger’s bag...

Forgiving Loans in China?s Quake Zone

Posted on May 26, 2008
CBRC sez: If borrowers suffered huge losses that can’t be covered by insurance, or if the insurance or guarantees are not enough for the debts, the loans should be regarded as bad loans and written off in a timely manner. My first reaction is why this should fall on the banks’ balance sheets? Shouldn’t the gov’t step [...

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