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China Income Tax: The Video

Posted on March 11, 2008
CLB's own Steve Dickinson was on CCTV's Dialogue program the other day discussing China's income tax. Steve was on with Kevin Ng, Tax Managing Partner for Deloitte in China. To watch the video of the program, go here. The show was ostensibly about China's having just raised its individual income tax threshold from 1600 yuan to 2000 yuan, but it ended up delving into "big policy" issues regarding fairness and equity...

If A Chinese Tree Falls In The Woods....

Posted on March 11, 2008
A friend of mine went to El Salvador for a few weeks to help a small village with various business matters. She returned proclaiming how CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) had been horrible for this village because it had done little more than increase its food costs, especially corn...

China-US Trade -- Why Can't We Be Friends, Someday?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Got an email the other day from blogger extraordinaire Dave Porter, saying, "I know you tend not to like big picture stuff about China, but check out the last half of Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong?s post on "Free Trade Fair Trade" the last half of which says": Think of it this way: Consider a world that contains one country that is a true superpower...

Mao Zedong: Mean Or Nice?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Our last poll was such a success, I am running another one, even more sophisticated this time. The official Chinese government position is that he was right 70% of the time and wrong the other 30%. Please vote AND please comment. Opinion Polls & Market Research...

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China: We're Number 1. We're Number 1.

Posted on March 09, 2008
Everyone knows China is the most populated country in the world, but it is also first in a number of other things as well. But how many know it is also first in gold production? Brian Wingfield at Forbes discusses this and more in an article entitled, "China is No...

The Beijing Olympics: China And The IOC's Same-O Same-O

Posted on March 09, 2008
The Absurdity, Allegory and China blog has a nice post up on the Olympics, entitled, "The Deck." Nothing terribly new here, but this is a very well put together post asserting that "International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge is maintaining a "?deck chairs on the Titanic" charade...

China Government Transparency: So I Took What I Could Get, Yes, I Took What I Could Get

Posted on March 08, 2008
On May 1, China's new national ordinance on openness of information will come into effect. China Media Project just did an article on that new ordinance, entitled, "Rules upon rules: Henan leaders move to prevent local abuse of national information release legislation...

Cheap AND Tawdry SEX In China. Confucius Say.

Posted on March 08, 2008
I tried to resist, but in the end, I too had to succomb. This post will probably outdraw by thousands our posts on China's New Labor Law and China's new FDI catalogue, put together. The sad truth is there are still people out there who find sex more interesting than law...

Zhou Enlai: Mean Or Nice?

Posted on March 07, 2008
When my daughters were four or five years old, I would love to mention someone they knew and then ask, "mean or nice?" I would give them maybe 2-3 seconds to answer and I would then blurt out another name. They would outgrow the game (and prove themselves too nuanced to run for political office) once they started to hedge by trying to explain how someone was sometimes mean and sometimes nice...

China Labor Law: What's Good For The Law Firm And What's Good For The Lamb.

Posted on March 07, 2008
Since December or so, my firm has been faced with a steady onslaught (that is definitely the right word) of China labor law work. Mostly, what we have been doing is helping companies get into compliance with China's new labor law by hammering out Chinese language contracts with their employees and by drafting Chinese language employment manuals...

Foreign Direct Investment In China: It All Just Changed

Posted on March 06, 2008
By Steve Dickinson As a highlight to the opening of the National People's Congress, Premier Wen Jiabao gave a very complete report on the current issues of major concern to the Chinese government. An English language summary of his report can be found here: The full report in Chinese can be found here...

China BPO Outsourcing By The Numbers

Posted on March 06, 2008
New Venture Outsourcing Blog did a post with a really cool AT Kearney graph breaking out the cost, people and skills, and business environment among various countries popular for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) (h/t to This Is China). China came in second overall, doing very well in costs and in people and skills, but not so well for business environment...

The China Ready Company -- The Basics

Posted on March 05, 2008
Interesting interview with China consultant, Kent Kedl, in Upsize Magazine, with some good information, succinctly put. The article is entitled, "?Get dragged? into China, advises Technomic Asia founder," and it focuses on Kedl's advice for small and mid-sized companies getting into China: His No...

Change Your Car's Oil. See Your China Trademark Lawyer.

Posted on March 05, 2008
Just came across a great post on the benefits of using lawyers before you encounter a problem. The post is entitled, "Cautionary Tale: Hire Trademark Attorney or Change Name -- Three Times," and it rightly bills itself as "a cautionary tale for business owners who adopt a trademark before talking to a trademark attorney...

Register Your IP In China. This Is What I'm Talkin 'Bout.

Posted on March 04, 2008
Stan Abrams over at China Hearsay has woken up (what's with all the posts on sleep deprivation anyway?) and posted on a recent Chinese court decision finding for Motorola in a design patent infringement case. The post is aptly entitled, "IP Win for Motorola," and it makes some very good points...

Obama And Clinton And China As Though It Actually Matters.

Posted on March 04, 2008
I put this out there for those who actually believe that what US presidential candidates say during a campaign has any correlation to what they will do once elected. The Nation Blog just did a post explaining Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's positions on China and on US trade with China...

The Sky Is Falling -- The China Food Edition

Posted on March 03, 2008
I always see the glass half full. Global warming? I left the Midwest because of the cold. Overpopulation? Beats war and pandemics. Just old news. Limited fuel supply? Whatever. I nonetheless am a bit troubled after reading an article, entitled, "Food Security: Moving Towards the Precipice?" (h/t to China Economic Review Blog) The article is mostly an interview with Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology and Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University...

Putinism, Singapore, And China. The Impact Of It All.

Posted on March 03, 2008
Very interesting post on the Thomas P.M. Barnett Blog, entitled,Who's afraid of Vladimir Putin? The post is on a very well reasoned article in Foreign Affiars Magazine, by Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, entitled, 'The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Holds Russia Back...

The China Price Plus 30 Percent

Posted on March 02, 2008
Anyone who has been doing business in China for a long time has heard/seen this story a million times. But that is why it is so important. Check out this post, entitled, "The China Price: Fishing for Fast Change."

Chinese Sensitivity: The Government Is The People

Posted on March 02, 2008
Jeremiah Jenne, of Granite Studio fame, has a great post up on the China Beat blog, dealing with why the Chinese tend to be so sensitive to foreign criticism of China. In the post, entitled, "Prejudice Made Plausible? Foreign criticism and Chinese sensitivity," Jeremiah, who is getting dangerously close to a Ph...

China Law Bibliography

Posted on March 01, 2008
Chinese Law Prof Blog has a post, entitled, "Bibliography of Western-language works on Chinese law." It links over to some really good China law bibliographies compiled by Knut Benjamin Pissler of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law in Hamburg...

CLB's Steve Dickinson On CCTV-9 Tonight At 7:30 PM China Time

Posted on February 27, 2008
CLB's own Steve Dickinson will be on CCTV's Dialogue show tonight at 7:30 pm talking about China's new individual income tax laws. We will run another post on this as soon as CCTV puts it on its website. Don't miss it!

China M&A: Can You Hear Me Now?

Posted on February 27, 2008
A couple of months ago, co-blogger Steve Dickinson, wrote an article on China mergers and acquisitions for China In Business Magazine. Towards the end of that article, Steve set out, in layman's terms, the following realities of China M&A: ? Foreigners are permitted to purchase small Chinese companies that the central government is not interested in managing...

China As Manufacturing Center. Yes, Yes, Maybe, And Chill.

Posted on February 26, 2008
This has to be some sort of record as this is my third post today on essentially the same topic: Does manufacturing in China still make sense? I just read an excellent nuts and bolts post, entitled, "China's First Steps Away From Low-Cost Manufacturing and What it Means For Your Company," by Ashton Udall over at the Product Global blog...

China FDI -- You Got To Know What To Hold, Know What To Fold

Posted on February 26, 2008
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson is interviewed over at Danwei FM on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China. The interview, which can be heard here, focuses on China's new catalogue on foreign investment. I urge anyone contemplating investing in China to go have a listen...

Rising Factory Costs Erode China's Edge. Yada, Yada, Yada.

Posted on February 25, 2008
New rule on this blog. If I am emailed the same article by three different people, I will write something about it, whether I want to or not. Four people emailed me this article and none said much more about it beyond, "have you seen this?" I am not even sure what the big deal is, but here goes...

Moving To Inland China: Anhui As The New Guangdong

Posted on February 25, 2008
Earlier today I did a post on how I do not see many companies moving out of China for countries like Vietnam. One of the reasons I do not expect that to occur is because there are still huge swaths of China that are still incredibly low cost. A number of readers pointed out to me an article in today's China Daily, entitled, "Moving Inland," that nicely brings this point home...

Huawei, Bain, 3Com. There Will Be Blood. Because I Said So.

Posted on February 25, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the failure of the Huawei/Bain 3Com deal. The article is entitled, "Harsh Climate In Washington Ices 3Com Deal: Hope for Buyout Revival Led By Foreign Capital Dims Amid China Jitters," and it mostly focuses on how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U...

Why Chinese Companies Fail In The US, Part II.

Posted on February 24, 2008
A couple weeks ago, I did a post setting out lists as to why Western companies fail in China and my own list of why Chinese companies fail in the United States. Nina Ying Sun over at the Plastics News Blog (I know it sounds boring, but it most emphatically is not) has made some excellent comments on my explanations for Chinese company failures in the United States in a post entitled, "Why Chinese Companies Fail the US Market...

China's Incremental Revolution. Litigation As Political Force.

Posted on February 23, 2008
Very interesting post on the Transnational Law Blog on a very interesting Christian Science Monitor article. The post is entitled, "Another Reason to Have Faith in China's Maturing Legal System," and the CSM article is entitled, "How one man in China strengthens the rule of law: Hao Jinsong, a Beijing lawyer, defies authorities with small lawsuits...

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