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China's New Labor Law -- Just Deal With It.

Posted on June 04, 2008
Meganshank.com has an excellent post up on China's new labor law, entitled, "Dealing With It: MNCs learn to cope with the Labor Law." Ms. Shank is a reporter with Newsweek Select (Newsweek's China Edition, not to be confused with China Newsweek) who writes her articles in Chinese...

A China Picture Worth A Thousand Words

Posted on June 04, 2008
Brendan O'Kane is widely regarded as one of the brightest and best writers in the China blogosphere and I regularly check out his posts for their bon mots. Today, however, Brendan's post consists of a picture about which all I can do is repeat the by now trite phrase that a picture is worth a thousand words and urge you to go see it here...

International Debt Collection: Los Angeles, Today At Noon

Posted on June 03, 2008
I will be speaking today at an International Debt Collection conference being put on jointly by the International Law Section and the Remedies Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. I will be joined on the podium by Hon. Samuel Bufford [pdf], US Bankruptcy Court, Constance Kim, Connon Wood Scheidemantle LLP, Lawrence Peitzman, Peitzman Weg & Kempinsky LLP...

Blawg Review #162

Posted on June 02, 2008
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. Bob Dylan, Man of Peace "I am a man of peace." Kwai Chang Caine, Kung Fu, Episode 8 "Peace lies not in the world...but in the man who walks the path." Master Po, Kung Fu, Episode 8 When I took on this task of writing Blawg Review #162, I received emails expressing excitement at the idea of this blog bridging East and West, enlightening...

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Chinese Factory Girls

Posted on June 01, 2008
The always worthwhile China Beat has a great post up by Leslie T. Chang. Ms. Chang is a former WSJ reporter who just wrote a book called Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, due out in October. This post both previews the book and highlights the differences between writing for the Wall Street Journal and writing a book...

What Lawyers MUST Know About China

Posted on June 01, 2008
I gave a talk to the Alaska Bar Association's International Law Section a couple of weeks ago. My topic was What Lawyers MUST Know About China, but if I had given it a subtitle, it would have been "the biggest mistakes foreign lawyers make when dealing with China...

China's Freedoms

Posted on June 01, 2008
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Janis Joplin Stupid Pig's China Blog has a very interesting post, entitled, "Freedom in China," on how the Chinese typically view the meaning of freedom differently than those in the West: The west has generally perceived China to be a country without freedom...

Inside-Out China -- I'm Lovin' It

Posted on May 30, 2008
Whenever I come across a really good China blog that has been around for more than a few months, I get irritated. I get irritated at myself and at those who are supposed to be assisting me on this blog for not having discovered it sooner. I also get irritated at the Chinese blogosphere for not having linked over to it...

How To Monitor Your Chinese Factory, The China Price, And QC By Motorcycle.

Posted on May 29, 2008
Interesting post by Nina Ying Sun on the PN [Plastics News] China blog on the inherent difficulties inherent of monitoring your China factory. The post is entitled "Hands-on due diligence in China," and it starts out with the following quotes from an interview with Alexndra Haney, author of the book, The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage: "More than half of factories in southern China are falsifying payroll documents!" "Many even create...

Navigating China's Visa Problems And Finding A Mass Murderer

Posted on May 29, 2008
Melanie Lindner over at Forbes.com did a nice article, entitled, "Navigating China's Visa Problems," on the increasing difficulty in securing a long term China visa and on the impact that is having on foreign entrepreneurs. The article starts out talking about how in the old days, all one "needed to travel in and out of China for business was a tourist visa," which enabled you to "live and run businesses in China for decades" by...

Selling Into China

Posted on May 29, 2008
"Another China Trade Opportunity" By JEREMY HAFT May 19, 2008; Page A13 As the Chinese recover from the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, it's worth remembering that they can't rebuild Sichuan province alone. They need America's help. In the months to come, China's central and provincial governments will spend billions to remake hospitals, communication and power networks, roads and infrastructure, dams and water-treatment facilities, factories, schools and houses...

Time's Cover Story: China's Times, Are They A Changing?

Posted on May 28, 2008
Heart of Beijing has a good post up, discussing the changes the Sichuan earthquake has brought to China and, in particular, to how China views itself and how China views how outsiders view China. The post is entitled "Time's Cover Story," and it uses Time Magazine's article, entitled, "Helping Hands," as its springboard...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About A Chinese 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: Is That A Passport In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Posted on May 28, 2008
When I was last in China (in April), I asked a few foreigners whether they carried their passports with them wherever they went. The typical response was that they used to not do so, but now they were trying to do so and maybe they would try even harder in the future because they were hearing of random checks...

China Earthquake's Astounding Numbers: How You Can Donate

Posted on May 28, 2008
Just read a post about a Wen Jiabao interview on the Time China blog and something really hit me from that post: "sixteen million buildings destroyed." Some people can understand the Sichuan earthquake devastation through personal stories, but I am at heart a numbers guy and that number hit me right in the heart...

China Banking And Currency Exchange: Free Is One Of The Few Words I Always Understand

Posted on May 28, 2008
A really good friend of mine who works at Bank of America is always touting its China solutions. He occasionally emails me beautiful brochures with beautiful graphics, presumably detailing how I can move my firm's paltry earnings between the US and China, and vice versa...

Sharon Stone's Karmic Assessment Of China

Posted on May 28, 2008
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell I was going to write a brilliant post on Sharon Stone's attributing the Sichuan earthquake to "possible" karma, but since David Wolf over at Silicon Hutong beat me to it in his post entitled, "A Perspective on 'Karma,'" I hereby fully incorporate by reference all that David said, as...

Why You MUST Have A China OEM Agreement.

Posted on May 26, 2008
Woke up three weeks ago to the following email from CLB co-blogger Steve Dickinson, who is based in China. I have changed a the names and any other potential identifiers, but have retained the gist of the story. I had to wait until the "emergency" supply agreement was signed before I could go with this post...

China Earthquake Relief, Charitable Giving, Big Governments, And The Forming Of Civil Societies

Posted on May 25, 2008
A few months ago, while in Seoul, Korea, I had an excellent discussion with a Korean-American friend of mine. This friend was born and grew up in the United States, but has been living in Korea for the last ten years or so. The day we met, he had seen a guy slapping around his girlfriend in broad daylight and nobody was doing anything other than watching and dialing (probably the police) on their cell...

Planned US China Flights Postponed

Posted on May 25, 2008
MSNBC.com is just out with a story on United Airlines raising its fares and within that story, I have learned that both United and US Airways will not be going forward with their US to China flights as originally planned: United Airlines has sought and US Airways plans to ask for one-year delays in launching the new routes, representatives from the carriers said Thursday...

A Chengdu Personal Account

Posted on May 23, 2008
My friend and fellow Grinnell alum, ?Sunny? Seong-hyon Lee emailed me the other day to express his regrets for having been out of both Beijing and Seoul (where he usually is) when I was in both cities last month. More correspondence revealed he had just returned from Chengdu...

China Visas -- Just The Facts, Ma'am

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Beijinger does a stellar job setting forth the current state of China visas in its post, entitled, "China Visa ? Facts and Fiction." Highlights from the post's "What We know for sure" (i.e., "just the facts, ma'am") section are as follows: 1. L (tourist) visas require documents showing your "outbound and return flight booking and stamped (chopped) hotel reservation for the complete duration of stay...

China's New Labor Law And Why Vietnam Is No Big Thing

Posted on May 21, 2008
"T'aint no big thing...." Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music I remember a time (Reagan era, I believe), when there was considerable talk about greatly reducing public television (PBS) funding here in the United States. In response to this, PBS reacted like any good bureaucracy does; it threatened to terminate that which the people found most precious...

China Earthquake Donations: Doing Good AND Pumping Up The Miles

Posted on May 20, 2008
Just got an email that combines two of my favorite things: doing good and pumping up my United Airlines mileage plus account. The email is from United Airlines and it says the following: Mileage Plus customers who donate $50USD or more will receive 500 miles as a one-time bonus...

Blogging FOR China

Posted on May 19, 2008
New blog out there of which CLB readers should be aware. It's called Blogging for China and it usually takes a decidedly pro-China view on most issues. Though pro-China, it is not at all ridiculously so and that means it puts forth very well reasoned and thoughtful arguments and is duly respectful of opposing viewpoints...

What Businesses Need To Know About Chinese Nationalism

Posted on May 18, 2008
Excellent post on The ACF China Co - Millstone Trading blog. This blog describes itself as "a blog for Asian furniture industry professionals offering invaluable insights, comments and ramblings about importing home furnishings from China," but this post is highly relevant for any business involved with China...

China's Earthquake -- How To Help. Money And More

Posted on May 16, 2008
Crossroads blog has a whole slew of posts up detailing various ways we can help Sichuan's earthquake victims, ranging from sending money to orphanages to aiding with logistics. If you want to help but are unsure as to how, read the more recent posts on this blog and pick something that matches your abilities and your desires...

China Demographics As Economics

Posted on May 15, 2008
China Financial Markets (a very serious and numbers oriented China economics blog) has a fascinating post, entitled, "Demographic projections and trade implications," on the interaction between China's birth rate and age demographics and its economic and trade future...

China Earthquake Donation Guide

Posted on May 15, 2008
Cn Reviews has the most comprehensive guide for donations to earthquake victims I have seen. (h/t to Black and White Cat) The post is entitled, "China Earthquake Donation Guide: 24+ ways to give," and it lists more than 24 charities involved with the China earthquake, along with descriptions and links...

China's F-Visas -- Put A Fork In Those Babies

Posted on May 15, 2008
The Wall Street Journals' China Blog just did a post on China's current visa situation, entitled, "Visa Saga." The gist of it is that securing F-visas and tourist visas has gotten much more difficult and that multiple entry visas are becoming nearly extinct and the "prospects of the government easing the rules are slim...

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