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Foreign Diplomacy, Beijing In 1974, China Business, Respek, And My Friend George H.W. Bush. It's Just Life.

Posted on June 25, 2008
Tom Plate wrote an interesting column the other day, entitled, "George I: American internationalist," regarding George Bush's (the elder) stint in China as Chief US representative to Beijing. The column actually focuses on the book "The China Diary of George H...

China Banking: I Have Two Words For You.

Posted on June 25, 2008
A year or so ago, I was talking with a good friend of mine who has a fairly high level position with one of the big American banks that has spent huge money buying into Chinese banks. I was saying I could not understand why American banks were so willing to put so much into China's banks, particularly when it would be impossible to achieve any sort of clarity regarding their bad loan risks...

China To Prices. "Get Real."

Posted on June 23, 2008
For years, whenever someone in the United States would complain about how China was "taking our jobs," I would mention China was also subsidizing our products. That is changing rapidly. In, "Paying the China Price, The Full Price," All Roads Lead to China writes on how the real, non-subsidized, price of Chinese goods is starting to reveal itself...

Skateboarding With Chinese Characteristics

Posted on June 23, 2008
Very interesting and insightful article on skateboarding in China, dude. The article is written by college junior, Jonathan Chow, and is entitled, "Skateboarding With Chinese Characteristics." Its money quote and why the article itself is important is as follows: "Forget soybeans, aircrafts, and pharmaceuticals...

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Is China Going Green, Part XV -- Environmental Liability Clarified: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

Posted on June 22, 2008
Very important article in today's China Daily, entitled, "Government targets land pollution to ensure food security." Far more important than the reason for this targeting is the who and what of the targeting. China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced that the "company which inherits the debts and rights (of the polluter) should shoulder the responsibility for providing financial assistance to restore the productivity of polluted land...

Suing For Access To China Government Information

Posted on June 20, 2008
The Chinese Law Prof blog has a fascinating (at least for legal geeks) post on the first Beijing lawsuit to access government information under the Regulations on Open Government Information which came into effect on May 1. Such a case would have been unthinkable even five years ago and the court's accepting the filing of this case is progress...

China Investigating Microsoft For Antitrust Violations. We Don't Think So.

Posted on June 19, 2008
By Steve Dickinson Both the English and the Chinese web have been rife with news of a Chinese government antitrust investigation of Microsoft's pricing of its software products. The reports initially stated the PRC State IP Office was investigating foreign software companies for selling software at higher prices in China than in their home jurisdictions...

So You Want To Save A Yuan By Moving Your China Operations To __________.

Posted on June 18, 2008
Excellent article by David Dayton up on Smart China Sourcing, entitled, "China prices: Moving not necessarily a solution to rising prices." (h/t to BizCult) The article very nicely sets out some of the key things (beyond labor and real estate costs) to look at in determining where to locate your business...

Good And Evil

Posted on June 17, 2008
First They Came.... One of the things that always drives me nuts is when I write something critical of China and a reader points out a similar example in the United States. Fine. It drives me even nuttier when I write something critical of China and someone writes to ask why I don't write the same sort of piece on the United States...

Global (Including China) Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies Webinar. June 19.

Posted on June 17, 2008
Managing Intellectual Property Magazine will, on June 19 at noon Eastern time (US) be putting on a Free Webinar on Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies, entitled ?Global Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies: Tackling Trans-shipment Issues Using Customs and Other Enforcement Techniques...

Update On China's Visa Situation

Posted on June 15, 2008
Travelpod has the most comprehensive analysis of China's present visa situation I have seen (h/t to ImageThief). It explains the current situation with respect to all sorts of China visas. If you have any questions regarding what it takes these days to secure the various types of China visas, I urge you to check it out...

How To Succeed In China Without Karaoke

Posted on June 15, 2008
In "Singing a Different Song in China," the Off The Record blog convincingly argues that karaoke is not necessary to succeed in business in China and tells us how to avoid karaoke without jeopardizing one's business. The post was written to counteract a WSJ article, entitled, "With Karaoke, A Deal in China For a Song," touting the benefits of participating in karaoke...

Marketing And Selling To Chinese Businesses

Posted on June 14, 2008
Matthew Harrison of B2B International China has a nice post up on China Success Stories, entitled, "Marketing and Selling to Chinese Businesses." For me, the big takeaway (and surprise) was the importance of conferences and exhibitions. Now of course I knew that China puts a big one of these on just about every week, but I did not realize how truly important they are for securing business...

Take A Time Out On Foreign Publishing In China

Posted on June 13, 2008
Nearly every month some non-Chinese company comes to my law firm seeking our help in navigating the legal issues involved in publishing some sort of magazine or website in China. Their initial questions nearly always focus on WFOEs versus Rep. Offices or about bringing on Chinese staff as part owners of their planned company...

China Tech At OpenWebAsia.com

Posted on June 12, 2008
When two preeminent China techno-geeks (Kaiser Kuo at Ogilvy Digital Watch and David Wolf at Silicon Hutong) tell us we should be looking to newly created OpenWebAsia.com for sources on China and Asia tech, all I can do is listen and repeat. OpenWebAsia describes itself as follows: The OpenWeb...

China And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) -- Not Just For Americans Any More

Posted on June 11, 2008
The WSJ China Journal (a really good blog we just added to our blogroll) has a post, entitled, "China?s Tricky Terrain on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," interviewing Richard Grime, an attorney with LA based mega-firm, O'Melveny & Myers. Both the interview and Grime's practice focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...

China's New Labor Contract Law -- In English

Posted on June 11, 2008
China Law & Practice Magazine just came out with a very good English language translation of China's new Labor Contract Law here. For more on China's new labour law, check out the following: -- "China's Proposed Labor Law:Going After Capitalists Like China, 1967" -- "China's Proposed Labor Law Causing Sucking Sounds" -- "China's New Labor Law -- It's A Huge Deal...

Tax Benefits Under China?s New Corporate Income Tax Law: Much Unfinished Business

Posted on June 10, 2008
By Steve Dickinson and Andrew Grieve Since enactment of China's new Corporate Income Tax (CIT) code at the first of this year, my firm has been working with a number of high-tech (mostly software, computer hardware, environmental technology, and medical technology) companies to figure out how they can benefit from these new laws...

China's Retail Attractiveness

Posted on June 10, 2008
Mega consulting firm AT Kearney just came out with its 2008 Global Retail Development Index and China came out as the fourth most attractive country, behind India, Vietnam, and Russia. The report has all kinds of fascinating statistics, rankings and graphs and I would urge anyone either in or thinking of going into international retailing to check it out...

Kung Fu Panda And A New Theory On China Counterfeiting.

Posted on June 09, 2008
"When you cease to strive to understand then you will know without understanding." - Caine I have yet to see the movie Kung Fu Panda, but the always excellent How The World Works, in a post entitled, "Kung Fu Panda's Inside Joke," has just given me another reason why I should...

Sex And The Olympics. Sex And China Visas. A Beijing Brothel And The Magic 8-Ball.

Posted on June 08, 2008
Josh Gartner over at Cup of Cha blog notes how a brothel near one of his favorite restaurants in Beijing recently closed, apparently as part of a governmental effort to clean things up before the Olympics. Josh assumes the brothel will be back after the Olympics, if not before, and I am guessing he will prove right on this...

How To Protect Your IP In China

Posted on June 08, 2008
Danny Friedmann of IP Dragon has a great post up at the Duncan Bucknell IP blog. The post is entitled, "How to prevent and act upon intellectual property rights infringements in China" and it very nicely sets out exactly how to accomplish that. Friedmann states that intellectual property infringement is prevalent in China "and a challenge for every company in every industry" but those companies that "take adequate precautionary measures," "anticipate infringements," and "aggressively enforce...

China's Top 30 Universities

Posted on June 08, 2008
CnReviews has a post that contains a ranking of China's top 30 universities by the China Academy of Management Science. 1. Tsinghua University, Beijing 2. Beijing University 3. Zhejiang University, Hanzhou, Zhejiang 4. Shanghai Jiaotong University 5. Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 6...

Confucianism as China State Ideology?

Posted on June 08, 2008
Two excellent posts on Confucianism as THE ideology for China. The first, by Xujun Eberlein, writing at China Beat, is entitled, "China: Democracy, or Confucianism?" Greatly oversimplified, its thesis is, essentially, as follows: It seems typical of American thinking to regard either a republic or parliamentary democracy as absolutely the only right model for all countries...

Chinese Real Property: To Buy Or Not To Buy, That Is The Question.

Posted on June 08, 2008
BizCult blog has a rather rah-rah post on why we should all be buying residential property in Beijing, essentially right now. The post is entitled, "If Not Now, Buy Property Sometime Soon," and it is based on a talk by Feng Lun, of Beijing Vantone Real Estate, at the recently completed Asia Society?s 18th Asian Corporate Conference on why "real estate will continue to be a good investment after the Olympics...

Danone/Wahaha -- China Business Lessons To Be Learned

Posted on June 07, 2008
As regular readers know, China Law Blog loves the Danone-Wahaha dispute, having written the following posts on it: -- China's Joint Venture Jeopardy -- Danone v. Wahaha -- Which Of Us Is The Most China Rookie? -- Danone and China's Wahaha: A Lecture on How (Not) to Make Allies Enemies -- New York Times And Steve Dickinson On The Danone Wahaha China Dispute And On Avoiding Your Own -- Danone v...

China: Take That Tourist Visa And Shove It

Posted on June 07, 2008
As we have often written, China always used to be incredibly lax about people using tourist visas to work in China. I know someone who lived in China for fifteen (15) years on nothing but tourist visas. He never once had a problem. Nobody ever once asked him why for fifteen years he had been spending about 350 days out of the year in China as a tourist...

Starting A Business In China

Posted on June 06, 2008
The relatively new China Supertrends blog has an Interesting and informative post on recently increased difficulties in starting a small business in China. The blog is "the official blog and support website for Supertrends of Future China, a soon to be released book by experienced China businesspersons James K...

The Upside Of China Corruption

Posted on June 05, 2008
Fascinating and insightful post over at Richard Spencer's blog, entitled, "When Corruption Works." The post posits that one of the reasons there were so many poorly constructed schools in Sichuan province is because there were so many schools and the reason there were so many schools was due, at least in part to corruption...

China's New Bankruptcy Law: Slow Train Coming

Posted on June 05, 2008
By Brad Luo and Steve Dickinson On June 1, 2007, China enacted a new bankruptcy law. One year on, our report from the field indicates it is only very slowly having an influence on debtor-creditor relations. Like so many of China's newly enacted business laws, it has been slow to take hold because so much of it remains unclear due to the lack of comprehensive implementing regulations...

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