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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

China Education and Innovation

Posted on May 07, 2008
A central element of China’s unconventional development strategy has been industrial policies aimed at building domestic capabilities in sophisticated industries, though whether these have succeeded remains controversial. As currency reform and global economic malaise have hit parts of the Chinese manufacturing sector, there has been a great deal of discussion of where things are headed...

Underwear Ads and China IP Licensing

Posted on May 06, 2008
Staring down at the throngs of shoppers on Beijing’s Xinjiekou Nandajie Avenue, a busy commercial thoroughfare about a mile west of the Forbidden City, was a white girl who looked all of 12, reclining in a matching bra-and-panties set adorned with Disney’s signature mouse-ear design...

Shambaugh on Chinese Nationalism

Posted on May 06, 2008
Excellent little Op/Ed in the IHT by David Shambaugh on Chinese nationalism. Shambaugh is the head of the China program at GW (the Elliott School). For a while, he and Harry Harding were there at the same time before the latter’s departure in 2005...

More Whining About IP Ed. Campaigns

Posted on May 05, 2008
The latest broadside in a concerted attack on China’s copyright pirates comes in the form of a double-header from the studios and the music biz teaming up to educate youngsters about the dangers of illegal P2P file sharing. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) will distribute 300,000 copies [...

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ASEAN+3, FX Swaps & U.S. Foreign Policy

Posted on May 05, 2008
Finance ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as China, Japan and South Korea agreed yesterday on the minimum scale of a regional foreign reserve swap. "We also agreed that the total size of the multilateralized CMI would be at least US$80 billion," finance chiefs from the 10-member ASEAN and three [...

Yes, Another China Law Blog

Posted on May 04, 2008
China Celebrates World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, 2008 A (slightly belated) warm welcome to a new China law blog, maintained by the international department at Grandall law firm here in Beijing. The international department is essentially a bunch of my former colleagues from Lehman, Lee & Xu who re-grouped at Grandall following what I [...

Look Out, The Commies Are Attacking

Posted on May 04, 2008
The Communist Tax Lawyer: A news, research and discussion platform for monitoring the evolution of Communist and ex-Communist countries to market economies. The latest from Chris Devonshire-Ellis is now up and running. Not long after getting to China, I recall talking to an expat lawyer in Vietnam...

Another Bad Intertube Law

Posted on May 04, 2008
Republican congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey used a meeting with international human rights group Reporters Without Borders last week to lobby for passage of a bill aimed at curtailing U.S. tech companies’ participation in foreign countries’ internet censorship schemes...

The Audacity of Mendacity

Posted on May 04, 2008
The May Day holiday is now officially over, so it’s back to work for all, even lazy bloggers like myself. First up, something from U.S. politics that has had me putting on the hat of a naive young idealist of late. Weird position for me to be in, I can tell you that...

Who Does China Like in the U.S. Election?

Posted on April 24, 2008
Europe Votes Democrat, but Asia Tends Republican That’s the headline from the fastest-growing part of the world where, as throughout a shrinking globe, the U.S. election is arousing passionate interest. Many a Shanghai dumpling gets slurped to the accompaniment of chat about superdelegates...

Time to Hunker Down

Posted on April 24, 2008
Strange days recently. The big news in the last 48 hours or so has been the rumors of expats being attacked by unruly mobs. This is competing, of course, with the other bombshell in the press, the looming potash crisis. The latter is understandably freaking out everyone far and wide...

Litigation Over CNN Remarks

Posted on April 24, 2008
Just found this entertaining. Who said that Americans have a lock on frivolous litigation? A group of Chinese lawyers is suing CNN over the remarks made by commentator Jack Cafferty. One of the 14 lawyers of the Beijing-based group told a Hong Kong newspaper that Cafferty’s remarks "seriously violated and abused the reputation and dignity [...

Dumb & Dumber - boycott edition

Posted on April 24, 2008
The president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, Joerg Wuttke, said any large-scale boycott would likely hurt Chinese workers and companies and could be met by similar action against Chinese products in Europe. "This kind of thing is a slippery slope downhill...

Winning the IP Hearts and Minds

Posted on April 22, 2008
From Variety (yes, I guess I’m reading Variety these days): Yang Tingting, a 21-year-old student from the Beijing U. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has won a short film competition about respecting copyright issues run by the MPA, the organizers of the 15th Beijing Student Film Festival and the China Film Copyright Protection Assn...

Food Safety Law

Posted on April 22, 2008
China’s new draft food safety law, which lays out penalties from fines to life in prison for makers of substandard food, was published on the national legislature website on Sunday for public discussion. Members of the public are being invited to make recommendations and submissions on the draft published at the National People’s Congress (NPC) website, [...

Energy and the New World Order

Posted on April 21, 2008
Great article in Asia Times on energy and changing geopolitics. This is not a news piece, but a nice digestible article summarizing some current energy-related trends and how things will progress in the next few decades. The author, Michael Klare, gives us five "key forces" for the new energy-influenced world order: 1...

CCFA Franchise Expo

Posted on April 21, 2008
Yes, instead of vegetating on the sofa yesterday, I spent my afternoon at the Franchise Expo, which is put on by the China Chainstore and Franchise Association. For those of you who do not get excited by the terms "area development," "royalty structure," and "master franchisor," this may not have been the event for you...

China IP Reality

Posted on April 21, 2008
From China Esquire: China has been trying to crack down on intellectual property violations for some time now. (a friend of mine used to do this sort of stuff for a living and he has some exciting stories) That being said, it seems that to the west (and not just America), China can never win...

The Law and New Tech in China

Posted on April 18, 2008
Here’s something a bit on the practical side. I wrote so much about how the international media and U.S. politicians have been bashing China this week that I thought I should end on some real lawyer-type commentary. That way, I can ensure that my readership plummets precipitously going into the weekend...

China as Financial Bogeyman

Posted on April 17, 2008
"You can’t do that for free," he says, referring to healthcare and other programs, "and you can’t take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children and our grandchildren," he says, referring to McCain’s plans...

China Growth and Inflation

Posted on April 17, 2008
Inflation and economic growth have slowed slightly in China as price controls have limited the cost of many essentials and exports to the United States have weakened, the Chinese government announced Wednesday. But the latest figures, for inflation in March and for economic output in the first quarter, also showed that prices were still rising at [...

Nifty History of the Bank of China

Posted on April 17, 2008
A bit of a change of pace for China Briefing, but certainly a welcome one. Gotta love history factoid posts, and after reading this article, I am ready for the cocktail party circuit, where I can wow the crowd with my encyclopedic knowledge of Chinese financial history...

FDA Comes to China II

Posted on April 17, 2008
Yesterday, I posed the question whether the U.S. FDA had the resources to adequately conduct inspections over here in China. Here is one opinion, and it’s a negative one: The FDA is overburdened and underfunded; it has trouble policing domestic pharmaceutical companies adequately...

FDA Comes to China

Posted on April 16, 2008
U.S. food and drug regulators will start working in China next month once Beijing gives its final approval, the top U.S. health official said Tuesday. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said the Food and Drug Administration is planning to open an office in China as part of a change in strategy following product [...

?Chinese Cities Need Slums?

Posted on April 16, 2008
Today in Xinhua: A Chinese scholar from one of China’s most prestigious universities claimed slums should be allowed to exist in China’s big cities to provide shelters for the urban poor. "It is no shame for big cities to have such areas...

Foreign Ministry Goes After CNN?s Cafferty

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded Tuesday that CNN’s Jack Cafferty apologize for remarks he made last week, in which he called the Chinese "goons and thugs" and said products manufactured in China are "junk." "Cafferty used the microphone in his hands to slander China and the Chinese people (and) seriously violated professional ethics of journalism and [...

Send for the Men in White Coats

Posted on April 15, 2008
OK, seriously, this dude is a nutjob. And I am not at all pleased that his bio prominently identifies him as a progressive - makes the rest of us look kooky by association. Repeat after me: The Afghan war in the 1980s is not a good source of inspiration for formulating China policy in 2008...

Obama Bitter Over China Trade

Posted on April 15, 2008
Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential hopeful, has warned China that if elected he could restrict access to US markets if Beijing does not stop manipulating the value of its currency. Obama told workers in Pennsylvania on Monday that China had to respect trade rules if it was to act as "positive force" for the world [...

Blogging for Bucks

Posted on April 14, 2008
Great article in Ad Age about corporate blogging: To blog or not to blog? It’s a question marketers are still grappling with years after the first waves of corporate blogging flooded the web. But for better or worse, it seems corporate blogging — and the title of chief blogger — is beginning to hit its stride...

More Navel Gazing

Posted on April 14, 2008
"Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying out, "But not from Chechnya! Not from the Basque homeland! And certainly not from Palestine!" And that is not a joke. I didn’t want to get sucked into this issue, but the media criticism, the protests and demonstrations, and the government denunciations of the past [...

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