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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

Tough Trade Talk - Pennsylvania Edition

Posted on April 14, 2008
Very interesting editorial that ran in a Pennsylvania paper recently. I frequently talk about protectionists and critics of globalization. Here is the argument from the local level and a glimpse into the thinking behind protectionist sentiment. The backdrop, of course, is the upcoming Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania...

Gov?t in Action

Posted on April 14, 2008
My last post questioned why the U.S.-China "hotline" was such a big deal in this day and age. This perhaps sheds some light on why any accomplishment of the government should be applauded, given all the important stuff they have to do these days: The U...

That?s It?

Posted on April 14, 2008
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his counterpart in Beijing on Thursday tested for the first time a "hot line" designed for consultations in times of crisis. The line is similar to one created decades ago between Washington and Moscow. The Pentagon initially proposed the Beijing hot line, but the Chinese balked until President Bush and President [...

Fun With Stocks - Part II

Posted on April 02, 2008
More on the stock market. Here’s one of those "The bubble is bursting" articles from the New York Times, complete with the obligatory interviews with people who have lost their life savings after making poor investment decisions. At least I haven’t read anything stupid like "No one predicted this collapse...

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Fun With Stocks

Posted on April 02, 2008
Interesting article in Shanghai Daily on local investors - who they are, how they approach stocks, etc. Also scared the crap out of me in a way, but I shouldn’t be surprised. All you have to do is look at Hong Kong and understand that what goes on here is even worse with respect to [...

Innovation Society

Posted on April 02, 2008
I wrote yesterday about how some of the low end foreign-invested factories, the ones with razor-thin margins, have been closing up their China shops and moving elsewhere. A nice follow-on piece to that, which was a commentary on an article in Asia Times, is this from Wired...

Bottom Feeding

Posted on April 02, 2008
I’ve been relatively silent, for the most part, when it comes to the U.S. presidential election. None of the three remaining candidates excite me all that much, and the statements each of them has made on foreign policy issues make me rather nervous - some of McCain’s more belligerent comments are downright scary...

FDI Changes

Posted on April 01, 2008
Cool article in Asia Times a few days ago on the changes to foreign-invested manufacturing operations over here. The article focuses on Korean factories in Qingdao, but that’s just an example. The numbers have changed, and a lot of those low-cost, export-oriented foreign manufacturers are being driven out of business as costs rise, particularly labor and [...

It?s the (domestic) Economy, Stupid

Posted on March 31, 2008
The FT yesterday gave us another reminder that China’s policy when it comes to the value of the RMB is all about the domestic economy, not about international pressure: But the bilateral prism through which Washington sees the issue gives a distorted picture of the reasons for the renminbi?s strengthening, say analysts, and also exaggerates the [...

Illegal Drug Sales & A Touch of Cynicism

Posted on March 31, 2008
I recently wrote about a crackdown by the drug authorities on illegal online drug sales (really, it’s true) and used the occasion to suggest a disconnect between the SFDA and the MII, the latter being responsible for regulating the Internet. Interagency cooperation over here is problematic in most cases...

Brave New (IP) World

Posted on March 28, 2008
This has nothing to do with China, but from an intellectual property perspective, this is quite interesting: The next potential casualty of America?s deficient copyright regime is MP3Tunes, a Silicon Valley startup founded by Web entrepreneur Michael Robertson, which lets users store digital music files in a Web-based locker they can access from anywhere...

SIPO News

Posted on March 27, 2008
Back to business. For all you IP groupies, here’s the latest IP newsletter put out by the State Intellectual Property Office. Nothing too exciting in there, although I am impressed that SIPO actually spends the time and effort to put this together...

Hyperbole Much?

Posted on March 27, 2008
Yes, I’ve been writing too much about press coverage and politics and not enough about law, business and economics, but you respond to what is out there, right? And what’s out there is real crap. Case in point, this amazing tripe penned by Father Raymond de Souza...

Must Have Been An Awkward Phone Call

Posted on March 27, 2008
So apparently Bush and Hu Jintao spoke on the phone. That’s nothing more than a waste of long distance telephone charges. If you disagree, feel free to check out the waste of space that is this article on the subject. When you have a U.S. President with no moral authority any longer (sorry, but it’s true), [...

Netac - PNY Patent Infringement Matter Settles

Posted on March 27, 2008
Lots of folks have been following this case for a couple years. The main interest here is that involves a Chinese IPR holder suing a U.S. company for patent infringement. Not common at all. Looks like Netac must have had something going on - PNY settled with them...

Now This Is An Attention Grabber

Posted on March 26, 2008
This understandably caught my eye when I saw it: “Free Dr. Pepper for All if ‘Chinese Democracy’ Happens in 2008″ Wow, that’s bold. It’s not what you are thinking, though. Hint: the article was in Advertising Age.

This Just In From the MOC

Posted on March 26, 2008
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: According to the requirements of National Working Group for IPR Protection on “2008 IPR Week” activities, the Ministry of Culture decided to develop the 10th national AV market legal publicity week from April 20 to 26...

Sexing Up the Bad News

Posted on March 26, 2008
I’m glad someone said it. Lots of talking going on in China about the foreign press and an anti-China bias. Not sure about that, but I do think there is an obvious bias towards sensationalism. If you follow that link, you will read about and see examples of media distortion of the [...

Bad Timing For This Non-Story

Posted on March 26, 2008
The story of the U.S. missile parts mistakenly sent to Taiwan has been floating around the Internets because of its headline appeal. The facts are, as usual, less than exciting. From the CNN story: Four nose-cone fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles were shipped instead of the helicopter batteries that Taiwan had [...

Enough Already

Posted on March 26, 2008
This is really starting to piss me off: The IOC Needs to Step in or Perhaps Move On The article is from the Washington Post. This kind of thing really shouldn’t be written by a sports columnist, who is just parroting a bunch of other poorly-researched pieces out there...

The Old Weather Control Story

Posted on March 25, 2008
Ha! Confirmation at last, from Technology Review: To prevent rain over the roofless 91,000-seat Olympic stadium that Beijing natives have nicknamed the Bird’s Nest, the city’s branch of the national Weather Modification Office–itself a department of the larger China Meteorological Association–has prepared a three-stage program for the 2008 Olympics this August...

More Fun With Toys

Posted on March 25, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal: In a move that has alarmed the toy industry, lawmakers in the state of Washington have overwhelmingly passed a bill that would set the toughest restrictions in the nation on the lead content of children’s products. I’m about to complain, but before I do so, let me preface my complaints...

Settlement, What Settlement?

Posted on March 25, 2008
Sometimes, just when you think a lawsuit is over, you get dragged back in: Jeboo.com, one of the biggest Chinese online theatre Websites, has filed a suit against five major US movie companies as well as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)...

Navel Gazing (To Some Extent)

Posted on March 24, 2008
Not a great deal of interesting news out there today. The China-related articles are fixated on one story (guess which one), and the Easter holiday has contributed to a general slowdown of news. One nice exception that I can point to is a China Vortex and CLB discussion about use of lawyers by PRC companies...

Jobs vs. Inflation

Posted on March 24, 2008
Ah, the age-old dilemma. Every central banker worries about it, every student of Econ 101 learns about it, and Wen Jiabao is commenting on it. And so is Michael Pettis: That is the nub of the policy dilemma. One of the consequences of China?s expansionary monetary regime has been fairly rapid employment growth, but not enough [...

Creativity

Posted on March 24, 2008
James Fallows gets credit for actually making the recent “elections” here interesting. Well, maybe not so interesting, but he does come up with a decent joke: Essay question: In what basic way did these NPC elections resemble the Democrats’ presidential primary in Michigan two months ago, and what does this suggest about the way globalization is [...

Even Paranoids Have Enemies

Posted on March 24, 2008
You know the press is out to get you when everything seems to be your fault: Southern China may have been the source for much of the spread of the H5N1 avian flu virus. This was from Reuters last week. Perhaps next week we’ll learn that the Chinese government secretly engineered the collapse of the U...

The Optimism of Spring

Posted on March 23, 2008
High wind and warm(er) temperatures in Beijing this morning. Must mean that Spring has finally arrived. While the sunny skies always make one’s outlook that much more positive, I have to say that this kind of thing is really not helping. Not to mention this.

Tech Note

Posted on March 22, 2008
Been having some formatting and other issues recently. Also had to upgrade my software. Anyhow, please have some patience with some lingering formatting problems. Hopefully this stuff will get cleaned up this weekend. BTW, thank heavens for open source platforms and all those folks out there writing helpful macros...

Meandering Thoughts on the Games

Posted on March 21, 2008
Lots o’ folks talking about the Olympics these days in light of a variety of events, particularly what’s happening out West. Some disillusionment seems to be setting in, not to mention quite a bit of foreboding. I am slightly worried. Politics and sport do not mix all that well, and I still remember the [...

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