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Chengdu Blogs On The Scene Of The Earthquake

Posted on May 14, 2008
Barking at the Sun blog has been online from Chengdu since August, 2007, and it has become a good source of information on the recent quake. Check it out. As I mentioned just last week, US National Public Radio (NPR) is in Chengdu (got there just in time for the quake), and it has been doing a good job blogging on events there...

China WFOEs: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them

Posted on May 14, 2008
Andrew Hupert at ChinaSolved did a post, entitled, "WOFE Managers & the Law: Know ?em, Live ?em, Love ?em," on a speech by Tim Lamb on WFOEs (Wholly Foreign Owned Entities, a/k/a Wholly Owned Foreign Entities) and on complying with Chinese law. Andrew's Cliff Notes version is "follow the law": Tim spoke for a while and covered a lot of important topics, but I?ll break down the main idea for you right now: China has...

China Getting Wise To Media: The Earthquake And Wikipedia

Posted on May 13, 2008
By Steve Dickinson, from Shanghai The Chinese media response to yesterday's Sichuan Province earthquake has been unexpected. When these sorts of things happened in the 80s or the 90s or even two years ago, there was a virtual media blackout. Not true for this disaster...

How To Start Your Silicon Valleyesque Startup In China

Posted on May 12, 2008
Cn Reviews, has a very informative post entitled, "AAMA Panel on 'Silicon Valley-Style' Startups in China: The Next Wave," on getting a startup going in China. The post is on a recent Asia American MultiTechnology Association dinner where a number of clearly qualified people spoke on China startup information...

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China By The Numbers.

Posted on May 12, 2008
Uber reporter Tim Johnson over at his perennially superb China Rises Blog has a post up entitled, "China By The Numbers," which consists nearly entirely of a list of interesting numbers from this Independent article highlighting China's rapid change. Both the post and the full article are well worth a read, particularly if you are a numbers geek like me...

China's Earthquake: How You Can Help

Posted on May 12, 2008
Shanghaiist just posted on how you can help the victims of China's recent earthquake. Here's the info, straight from Shanghaiist: For those who are looking to contribute to current aid efforts underway, you can now donate money to the Red Cross Society of China which has formed a disaster relief working group to be dispatched to the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County in Sichuan...

China's New Labor Contract Law -- Clarifications A Comin'

Posted on May 12, 2008
By Andrew Grieve and Steve Dickinson (Andrew is a paralegal with Harris & Moure who is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin). The Labor Contract Law continues to generate much controversy in China. As is typical of Chinese statutes, the law is unclear on many key issues...

China Statistics. Lies And Damn Lies.

Posted on May 11, 2008
Excellent post up by my friend Jeremy Gordon over at China Business Services. Post is entitled, "Statistics That Don't Add Up," and it is on the notorious unreliability of Chinese economic statistics. Where it excels is in breaking down and recalculating the numbers and in giving us a Goldman Sachs roadmap on determining reliability...

China's Environment From The Inside

Posted on May 11, 2008
US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) did a pretty good (though somewhat bombastic as is PBS's wont) series a while back, entitled, "China From the Inside." For those of you who did not have access to it or missed it, All Roads Lead to China just put up (via YouTube) the episode on China's environment...

China Factories In Real Life

Posted on May 09, 2008
This Washington Monthly article, entitled, "Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector" does a really good job conveying what really goes on in China's factories. (h/t to All Roads Lead to China) I admit to having spent very little time in Chinese factories, but this article certainly jibes with what I have been told by those who have and with what I have read on the subject...

90 Minutes From Shanghai To Paris (Ningbo)

Posted on May 09, 2008
Well, not quite, but the Shanghai to Ningbo bridge is the world's longest cross-sea span and it cuts the drive from Shanghai to Ningbo from 400 km to 80km. CLB's own Steve Dickinson just returned from Ningbo, having travelled there from Shanghai to meet with a client who is setting up a manufacturing plant there...

China's Visa Situation. Now Clear As Mud.

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Yuan Also Rises blog has a nice post up on China's current visa situation (at least as of this week). The post is entitled "Clear as Mud," and, among other things, it notes of reports that China visas may be easier to obtain in Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand than in England and Hong Kong...

China's Environmental Laws -- A Legal Leap Forward

Posted on May 09, 2008
China Daily has an article that nicely summarizes the evolution of China's environmental laws, entitled, "A Legal Leap Forward." Makes for a good primer on the basics. (h/t to The Green Leap Forward)....

Dude, Don't Be Messin' With The Shoes And It Ain't Just China.

Posted on May 08, 2008
When growing up, I played basketball 2-7 hours a day, year round. That meant a lot of basketball shoes. The shoes were everything. The shoes told people how you thought of yourself and they influenced how others thought of you. Like everyone else of my era, I started out with Converse All Stars because I had no choice...

China Private Equity/Venture Capital From People Who Know.

Posted on May 08, 2008
Project Alpha just posted the transcript from a very enlightening panel discussion on private equity/venture capital in China. The discussion was at JP Morgan's recent China conference in Beijing. I attended this discussion and found it very informative...

The Impact Of China's New Labor Contract Law

Posted on May 08, 2008
Very good Washington Post article by very good WaPo reporter Ariana Eunjung Cha on the impact of China's new labor contract law. The article is entitled "New Law Gives Chinese Workers Power, Gives Businesses Nightmares" and it presents a fair and balanced view of what this new law is doing to the employer-employee relationship in China...

The Oracle Of Omaha On China. Well, Not Exactly.

Posted on May 07, 2008
I feel almost compelled to pass on some of the gems Warren Buffet (an apparent hero to the Chinese as well) voiced at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting the other day. They are that good. ?Contemplating any business act, an employee should ask himself whether he would be willing to see it immediately described by an informed and critical reporter on the front page of his local paper ? there to read by his spouse, children,...

Absolutely Everything I Know About Teaching English In China. The Whole Unvarnished Enchilada.

Posted on May 07, 2008
Every so often I will get an email from an English teacher in China who is owed money by the school for which he works. Typically the letter will state the case and then ask "do I have a case." I nearly always answer by saying that "based on the facts you have conveyed to me, it certainly does sound as though you have a case," but you really need to ask yourself whether it...

China As Olympics PR Maestros

Posted on May 07, 2008
Kevin Brown has a post up on the OpenDemocracy site that is either brilliant or completely tongue in cheek and I am too dense to tell which. Anyway, the post is entitled, "China's Olympics -- the lull after the storm," and it posits that China has been doing a heckuva good job with Olympics public relations by following the basic PR rule of getting the bad news out first...

In Creating A Legal System For A Market Economy, China Must Mind The Gaps.

Posted on May 06, 2008
Professor Donald C. Clarke of George Washington University Law School (a former law school professor of CLB's own Steve Dickinson and the prof behind the Chinese Law Prof Blog) recently had his paper published, entitled, "China: Creating a Legal System for a Market Economy...

Lawyer Ethics With Chinese Characteristics. It Matters.

Posted on May 06, 2008
Second year SMU law student, Jing "Brad" Luo, recently had an article of his on China lawyer ethics published in China Law & Practice Magazine. A law student getting an article published in such a prestigious magazine (in his second language, no less) is really quite a feat...

China Visa Hell, Chapter 27

Posted on May 06, 2008
Kyle over at BizCult has posted on what is becoming a much more frequent occurrence in China: an encounter with the police over a visa issue. The post is entitled "You Are Big Brother's Keeper" and it starts out with what we lawyers call "factual background...

NPR's All Things Considered Doing Chengdu -- May 19-23

Posted on May 06, 2008
National Public Radio's All Things Considered Show will be broadcasting from Chengdu, China, from May 19 through May 23. (h/t to Barking At The Sun, which is itself based in Chengdu). For years, my firm had been getting calls from software companies looking to go into Chengdu, but almost without exception, none of them did...

China Deflation: We Hardly Knew You.

Posted on May 05, 2008
The Economist Free Exchange has a post, entitled, "Fondly Remembering a Deflationary China," (h/t to Experience Not Logic) on how China has moved from being a deflationary force to an inflationary one. At JPMorgan's recently completed China Conference in Beijing, one of the best speakers I saw was James Kynge, of China Shakes the World Fame, whose talk was on how China had moved from deflation to inflation and how that would impact the rest...

China's New Labor Law As Plague On All Employers' Houses.

Posted on May 05, 2008
As regular CLB readers know, I have been repeatedly preaching (right word) for some time about the massive impacts to expect from China's new labor contract law, which went into effect just this year. My consistent theme has been that disgruntled employees represented by Chinese litigators ready to pounce will bring an ill wind to all employers in China...

China Visa As Endangered Species.

Posted on May 05, 2008
Uber-reliable Danwei just did a post on the current situation (or at least word on the current situation) involving China visas. The post is entitled, China Visa Confusion, but, unfortunately, the post itself is quite clear: getting a Chinese visa of any kind between now and October is going to be extremely tough...

China Contracts: To Arbitrate Or Not To Arbitrate, That Is The Question.

Posted on May 04, 2008
Though I got a bit of grief for saying it before, I will say it again, arbitration clauses fascinate me. As I said in a previous post on this topic, entitled, "So Ya Say You Wanna China Arbitration, Well You Know": I can nearly always judge the legal thought that went into an agreement through its arbitration/litigation provision alone...

Hillary, Barrack And McCain On Global Trade. The Reality Beats The Rhetoric.

Posted on May 04, 2008
Craig Maginness at the Going Global Blog has an extremely thoughtful post up analyzing the global trade positions of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barrack Obama, entitled, "Presidential Primary Edition -- The Candidates, the Parties and Their Positions on Global Trade...

China Versus Thailand: Outsourcing Smackdown

Posted on May 04, 2008
David Dayton over at the consistently enlightening Silk Road International Blog did an interesting post comparing China to Thailand for manufacturing, entitled, "Thailand vs. China." David is eminently qualified to make this comparison because his Master's Degree focused on "Comparative Chinese and Thai Corporate Cultures," he is fluent in both Thai and Mandarin, and has spent considerable time doing business in both places...

China's "Freedom Of Information" Act Just Enacted. Blink And You May Miss It.

Posted on May 04, 2008
The Australian has an article on China's just enacted Information Disclosure Act, entitled "Chinese FOI act tied by red tape." The purpose of this Act is to improve governance, not to grant citizens any sort of right to know: Despite this, Dr Cheng [Cheng Jie is a constitutional law professor at Qinghua University in Beijing] believes the new disclosure regulation, promulgated by China's State Council, or cabinet, and eight years in the making, does mark...

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