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Jim Rice On How To Do Business On China.

Posted on December 27, 2010
A cllient sent me a link to an MP3 interview a while back, saying he had listened to it and it contained really good information on doing business in China. The MP3 can be found here and it is an interview with James Rice, a businessperson who has been living in China since 1990...

China Energy Shortages And Their Impact On Your Business

Posted on December 23, 2010
By Steve Dickinson As the bone chilling cold of winter solstice approaches, we have been greeted here in China with a series of reports on shortages in primary energy for the winter season: • Coastal China provinces have shifted strongly towards natural gas for home heating...

Litigating In China. Don't Lock Yourself Out.

Posted on December 21, 2010
By Steve Dickinson The Chinese press has been very excited to report this week on an increase in foreign litigants making use of the Chinese courts. Under the somewhat misleading title of 'Commercial disputes with foreign nation [sic] flood Chinese courts,' the reports state that the PRC Supreme People's Court reports the following statistics: • Through November of 2010, 13,131 cases involving foreign elements were heard by the Chinese courts...

Vote China Law Blog. Because We Don't Want Anyone Else To Win.

Posted on December 20, 2010
I hate blog contests. Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. They are just popularity contests for the well-established blogs, and as such, they inherently favor blogs on more mainstream topics. A China law blog ought to be able to beat a Palau law blog every time, regardless of any quality differential...

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China's Tax System. When "Equal" Is A Very Bad Thing.

Posted on December 19, 2010
In the good old days, China gave foreign companies all sorts of tax breaks. In fact, China's taxation system so favored foreign companies, many Chinese companies would form a company overseas and then enter China that way. This tactic came to be known as round-tripping and it became quite common...

Sexism In China. A Good Thing For Foreign Business?

Posted on December 16, 2010
Had an interesting lunchtime discussion the other day with two very dynamic international entrepreneurs on global prejudices. Both told me of how they "take advantage" of it. These two take advantage of it by hiring women, the disabled, and ethnic minorities in countries where other businesses are either reluctant or refuse to hire these people...

China Business. It Helps To Know The Culture: Responses to Comments

Posted on December 15, 2010
A week or so ago, Jason Patent wrote a three part series on incorporating knowledge of Chinese culture to better your business in and with China. I asked Jason to write these posts after having listening to Jason give the best talk I have ever seen/heard on the cultural differences between China and the United States as those differences relate to business...

How To Protect Your Molds And Tooling In China.

Posted on December 14, 2010
Twice this week I got calls from companies who were seeking my law firm's assistance in getting their molds back from their former Chinese manufacturers and in both cases I had to tell them I did not think it worth their while to pursue their claims. My firm has been called about a dozen time on such matters and we have declined all but two of these...

China Law Blog On Linkedin. It's A Good Thing.

Posted on December 13, 2010
We started a China Law Blog Group on Linkedin with the plan of making it a spam-free source for China networking, information and discussion. That group has been active for nearly a year now and I am proud to say we have succeeded. Let's look at the numbers...

China Business. It Helps To Know The Culture. Part III. Stereotypes As Excess Baggage.

Posted on December 12, 2010
This is the third and final part of a three part series of posts by Jason Patent, a China market access consultant with years of on the ground experience and all sorts of degrees from top schools (including a Ph.D from Berkeley) that qualify him to discuss how Chinese culture is likely to impact your doing business with China...

China Business. It Helps To Know The Culture. Part II. Dealing With The Ethical Gray Zone.

Posted on December 11, 2010
This is part II of a three part series of posts by Jason Patent, a China market access consultant with years of on the ground experience and all sorts of degrees from top schools (including a Ph.D from Berkeley) that qualify him to discuss how Chinese culture is likely to impact your doing business with China...

China Business. It Helps To Know The Culture.

Posted on December 10, 2010
A few months ago I spoke at a seminar out East at which Jason Patent also spoke. Jason gave the single best talk I have ever seen/heard on the cultural differences between China and the United States as those differences relate to business. Based on that, I asked him to write some guest posts on China's business culture and this is the first in what will be a three part series...

China Too Expensive? Who You Gonna Call? I Say Vietnam.

Posted on December 09, 2010
As China wages and costs continue to rise, many of my firm's clients in low-skill industries are beginning to talk about moving out, either entirely or partially. The big discussion is to where. When asked for my opinion (as I was by an Israeli textile company today), I virtually always suggest Viet Nam...

International (And China) Litigation. The Questions To Ask.

Posted on December 07, 2010
Like every lawyer in the Western World, I love reading Above the Law for its salacious gossip. My favorite item was many years ago when they posted on the (completely untrue) rumor that my law firm was in merger talks with Baker & McKenzie. It is not the site on which one expects to see a really top-notch article on international litigation...

China Business. China Jails. China Hostages.

Posted on December 06, 2010
Nearly every time I write on this topic, I get at least one email from someone accusing me of fear mongering. I used to dispute that accusation, now I heartily embrace it. I embrace it because the overwhelming majority of foreign companies doing business in China make no allowance even for the possibility of one of their people going to jail or being held hostage...

China Law Evolving -- Businesses Take Note, Part VII

Posted on December 02, 2010
Last month, a young teacher in Anhui Province lost an AIDS discrimination case stemming from being rejected for a teaching position after testing HIV-positive. Though this case drew wide condemnation from human rights groups, as lawyer, I have been taking more of a wait-and-see attitude...

Suing Chinese Companies. "How Long Has This Been Going On?"

Posted on November 25, 2010
Yesterday, I participated in a phone call with a client and another lawyer in my office, Gerry Davis. We were discussing a worldwide software licensing agreement and I had brought in our best "tech" lawyer to assist. The counter-party had already provided a draft agreement to our client which our client had not yet sent to us...

The Chinese Dream And The Rise of China's Middle Class.

Posted on November 24, 2010
This review was written by Miriam Roth, who recently joined our international law firm as a legal assistant/paralegal. Miriam graduated this year with a degree in English Literature from the University of Maryland. When not working with us, she is an assistant editor at PIF Magazine...

Be Sure Regarding China's Sinosure.

Posted on November 23, 2010
Many Chinese companies that provide credit to foreign businesses do so because their invoices are insured by Sinosure. Sinosure is a massive China-based export and credit insurance company. Foreign companies sometimes face Sinosure when they have failed to pay their Chinese supplier for product...

China: Where Only The Good (And Bad) Die Young.

Posted on November 23, 2010
Apologies for the Billy Joel. Just read an interesting, disquieting, yet not terribly surprising article on China's life expectancy. The article is entitled, "In China, Uneven Progress on Health Front," and its focus is on how since 1990, China has had less of an increase in life expectancy than just about "every other big developing country" and even less than Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, South Korea and Sudan: From 1990 to 2008, life expectancy in China rose 5...

Emerging Market/China Outsourcing Issues. A Speech.

Posted on November 21, 2010
Last week, I gave an hour long talk before the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). My talk was entitled, 'The Legal Myths, Realities, Traps and Benefits to Outsourcing to an Emerging Market,' but I should have called it everything you need to know about the law of outsourcing, crammed into an hour...

China's Economic Future. By The Numbers.

Posted on November 20, 2010
I tend to put very little stock in economist's predictions and I tend to put even less stock in economist's predictions on China (and even less still on non-economists prognosticating on China's economy as though their doing business there all of a sudden makes them an economist)...

Airplane And Helicopter Manufacturers: Start Your China Engine.

Posted on November 20, 2010
I have always salivated over China's market for light aircraft and helicopters. I have salivated because my firm has a long history of representing helicopter and aircraft companies in their Russian related matters (for an interesting example, go here) and we have always wanted to do the same with respect to China...

The China Rich....Are Not Like Us?

Posted on November 19, 2010
Just got an email from a long-time loyal reader who is now in England studying law. His email was a combination of updates and thoughts and I just loved one portion of the thoughts. This person spent considerable time in Beijing tutoring children of high level Chinese executives, mostly bankers, and here, word for word, are some of his random, insightful thoughts from that experience: 1) None of them had counterfeit stuff in their houses...

Cambodia: China's Newest Appendage?

Posted on November 15, 2010
Co-bloogger Steve Dickinson just returned from a business trip to Cambodia. As China's costs rise, American and European companies are beginning to turn to Vietnam, and to a lesser extent, Cambodia, and even Laos, for their manufacturing outsourcing. This post focuses on Steve's time in Cambodia, and, specifically on its growing relationship with China...

Exploding The Myths Of China's Foreign Investments.

Posted on November 12, 2010
The China Economic Review published an article by CLB Co-blogger Steve Dickinson in its November issue. Steve's article is on the myths of China's foreign direct investment and is entitled, Exploding the Myth: China has emerged as a global FDI power, giving birth to a few misconceptions in the process...

How To Sue A Chinese Company. Part IV. Arbitration In The U.S. And Suing In China.

Posted on November 11, 2010
This is part IV of our series on how to sue a Chinese company. This is the final post in our series addressing what to do to secure redress against a Chinese company that owes you money or has wronged you. It is based on an article I recently had published (along with one of my law firm's new associates, Rebecca Carlson) in Bloomberg Law Reports [one week trial subscription required] and on an article I wrote for the Wall Street Journal, entitled," Chinese Companies Court Disaster...

How To Sue A Chinese Company. Part III. Litigation Strategies And Enforcing Judgments.

Posted on November 10, 2010
This is part III of our series on how to sue a Chinese company. This series of posts addresses what to do to secure redress against a Chinese company that owes you money or has wronged you. It is based on an article I recently had published (along with one of my law firm's new associates, Rebecca Carlson) in Bloomberg Law Reports [one week trial subscription required] and on an article I wrote for the Wall Street Journal, entitled," Chinese Companies Court Disaster...

How To Sue A Chinese Company. Part II. Discovery.

Posted on November 09, 2010
This is part II of our series on how to sue a Chinese company. This series of posts addresses what to do should you want to seek redress against a Chinese company that owes you money or has wronged you. It is based on an article I recently had published (along with one of my law firm's new associates, Rebecca Carlson) in Bloomberg Law Reports [one week trial subscription required] and on an article I wrote for the Wall Street Journal, entitled," Chinese Companies Court Disaster...

How To Sue A Chinese Company. Part I. Jurisdiction And Service Of Process.

Posted on November 08, 2010
Let's face it, even in a down economy, suing Chinese companies is a growth area. On top of that, it is fun and lucrative. My firm originally made its mark handling international litigation and of late, it is litigation against Chinese companies that is feeding our rapid growth...

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