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Clinton, Obama, Saudi Arabia And China. Comments On The Comments.

Posted on June 07, 2009
The other day, I did a quick post in a pique of anger at the US criticizing China's Human Rights record while Barack Obama was travelling in or to Saudia Arabia and Egypt. I found it absurd that we would be going after China for its HR issues at the same time we were (and have) pretty much completely ignored the far far worse records of Egypt and Saudi Arabia (and Syria, and Yemen and...

China Contract Law: Going All Clear On Us Now.

Posted on June 05, 2009
By Steve Dickinson One role of China's Supreme Court is to provide guidance on the interpretation of statutes. These interpretations are directed at two fundamental issues. First, Chinese statutes tend to be short and general. Conflicting interpretations of such general wording is possible...

I'm Sorry, But US Hypocrisy On Human Rights Is Continuing Apace Under Obama. China Is Exhibit A.

Posted on June 04, 2009
1. I love my country -- the United States. 2. Of course I believe in human rights. 3. The US should strive to be a beacon on human rights. 4. When appropriate, and in ways that are appropriate, the US should encourage other countries to maintain human rights as well...

Foreign Real Estate Development In China. Long Term Leasing Can Be A Good Way To Go.

Posted on June 03, 2009
China Economic Review recently published an article by CLB's own Steve Dickinson on foreign investors entering into long term leases of Chinese real estate. The article is entitled "Don't play for keeps," and since a paid subscription is required, we will provide the article Steve wrote before the professional editors gussied it all up...

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China Contract Protections And It Ain't Just Scrap.

Posted on June 02, 2009
Scrap is very much an international business and due to its potential for rapidly changing prices, it is ripe for non-payments and international litigation. Many months ago, I was interviewed by Scrap Magazine regarding Chinese companies failing to pay on their scrap contracts...

IT Outsourcing To China As Next Big Thing.

Posted on June 01, 2009
KPMG recently came out with an excellent report on outsourcing to China (h/t to Experience Not Logic), entitled, "A new dawn: China?s emerging role in global outsourcing." KPMG summarizes its report as follows: Outsourcing is on the agenda of the Chinese government as they seek to boost foreign investment into China and support the development of the services sector...

China Sex, Mistresses, And Improper Payments, And What They Mean For Your China Business Litigation.

Posted on June 01, 2009
Fascinating post up over at CNReviews, entitled, "Husband and wife sue mistress for 330,000 yuan in ?lover?s fees.? The gist of the case is that a married couple sued the husband's former mistress to require her to return 330,000 RMB the husband had given her during the course of the affair...

Breaking News: Blogger, David Dollar, Named Economic And Financial Emissary To China.

Posted on June 01, 2009
David Dollar, who heads up the blog, East Asia & Pacific on the Rise (a/k/a David Dollar's Blog) and the World Bank's China Director, has just been named by Timothy Geithner as "economic and financial emissary to China." Dollar, who was formerly an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, really knows whereof he speaks when it comes to economics and China...

Shanghai As World Financial Capital? Maybe Next Century.

Posted on May 31, 2009
Just finished a fascinating article in Atlantic by Richard Florida, entitled, "How The Crash Will Reshape America." It makes some very interesting points as to why Phoenix and Las Vegas (and large swaths of Florida) may never recover and why New York, Austin, and Seattle (yeah), will do just fine...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Touring A China Factory.

Posted on May 29, 2009
I know I should not admit this, but I find most factories pretty boring. It was not always this way. When I first started practicing law, I loved visiting factories, but the thrill is gone. Within about one minute of watching a basketball game, I have a good feel for the players and for the teams, but I could watch three hours of a soccer game and still not have a clue...

China Translated.

Posted on May 28, 2009
When we first started this blog we would occasionally make fun of mainstream media's China coverage. I just realized we have not done that for years and I attribute that mostly to a huge increase in good reporting coming out of China. My firm is frequently interviewed by China reporters on China law issues and so we are able to judge up close and personal who among the media knows his or her stuff...

The Chinese Are Coming, Part IXX, And This Time They Are Serious About Minority Stakes.

Posted on May 27, 2009
Caine: May I ask, master? When I leave the temple, what will be expected of me? Master Poe: To walk the roads of the land, and use what you have learned for the needs and benefit of the people. Cain: Will I always know when to act and when to stand off? Master Poe: That which you do not know, the doing will quickly teach you...

Pig Casings, Swine Flu, And Accounting For China Risk.

Posted on May 25, 2009
My firm has always represented a number of fishing and other food companies. The reasons for this are that we are located in Seattle and food companies went international early. by about five years ago, almost all of our fishing clients were doing something in China...

China's Economy By The Numbers. Lots Of Them.

Posted on May 25, 2009
The Beijing Axis business consultancy just came out with its quarterly "China Analyst" publication and it is chock full of nicely arranged economic statistics and predictions for China. If China economics is your thing, I recommend you check it out here...

China, We Have A Problem. A Mostly True Story.

Posted on May 23, 2009
My firm recently wrapped up a fascinating matter (it is nearly always bad news when your lawyer tells you that you have an interesting or a fascinating case). Even though the matter is nearly over, I am going to have to gloss over certain facts and make up other ones so as not to leave any possible identifiers...

Guns In China. More, More, More....

Posted on May 23, 2009
I love talking about guns with Asian lawyers because their views on them are so....so un-American. Let's face it people, most Americans love guns. (This week's passage of a law allowing guns in National Parks is further proof of this.) And we Americans have a history with guns and an attachment to guns that is probably unique...

China Auto. Are We There Yet?

Posted on May 22, 2009
There are those who state confidently that China will own the worldwide car market within a few years (these people have been saying this for years -- check out this post from three years ago where I rightly said NO WAY) and there are those who state it will never get there...

China Visas. I'm Getting Deja Vu Olympic Feelings, Part IV. New Reports Of Visa Raids.

Posted on May 20, 2009
Got an email this morning from someone I know in China, reporting the following: Police in Guangzhou are doing very aggressive passport checks to prevent what they call ?? [the three must prevents]?meaning ???? [illegal entry]????? [illegal housing]????? [illegal employment]...

When Not To (And When To) File Your China Trademark.

Posted on May 18, 2009
Stan Abrams over at China Hearsay just did a great post entitled, When Not To File A Trademark (yes, you heard me). It is based on Duncan Bucknell's post, (Five reasons not to file a trademark). They both list the following five reasons not to bother registering a trademark: 1 - your business is only ever going to be confined to a subset of a country (and not extend to the whole country); 2 -...

Avoiding Chinese Jails. The Thai Bar Edition.

Posted on May 18, 2009
A few weeks ago, I did a post emphasizing the need to follow China's laws so as to avoid jail time. My point (taken straight from Aimee Barnes) was that what actions that may be overlooked in your home country of Australia or the United States or some other Western country very well may be deemed to be criminal in China...

China IP Protection. "It's Getting Better All The Time...."

Posted on May 17, 2009
I have a young relative who has for quite some time been "a challenge" for his parents. For years, whenever we would get together, we would all start out, charitably enough, by spending around thirty seconds talking about how "he's getting better." For the next ten to fifteen minutes we would then enumerate all the things he had done that made us all feel good he was not our child...

China Has Health Care Too

Posted on May 15, 2009
A few months ago I was on a China panel at Northwestern's Kellogg Business School where, among other things, we were asked to list China's best opportunities. I stressed that because I am not a China business expert, I would have to answer the question based entirely on what I was seeing of my firm's clients and, based on that, I listed health care, technology, and food...

How To Take Advantage Of China's Stimulus. London, June 3, 2009.

Posted on May 13, 2009
My friend Jeremy Gordon, over at China Business Blog, is going to be speaking at a London seminar on "what is happening in China and what businesses can expect." He is going to be part of three part series, the first of which is going to focus on how what UK companies should be doing in reaction to China's Stimulus Package: The Chinese government has announced a RMB 4 trillion stimulus package...

China: Good Business Gone Bad. You Want Pathos? I Can Do Pathos.

Posted on May 12, 2009
So I just got an email from a friend criticizing me for being "relentlessly" upbeat during the "world downturn." He wrote this email after my post yesterday touting how China's stimulus has been a giant positive. He tells me that I am losing credibility by acting as though things are "great all over...

The Chinese Are Coming, Part XVIII. It's The Stimulus Stupid.

Posted on May 12, 2009
?Who?s going to turn down a Junior Mint? It?s chocolate, it?s peppermint, it?s delicious. It?s very refreshing.? Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld, episode #60 When I was in law school, I was rankled by students who complained about how busy they were. I mean, we were all taking pretty much the same courses...

China And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Sometimes You Just Have To Step Away....

Posted on May 10, 2009
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when youre sittin at the table. There'll be time enough for countin when the dealins done. -- Kenny Rogers, The Gambler A couple weeks ago, a long time client of mine called me with a concern...

Everything You Need To Know About Sourcing From China. (Well Almost Everything)

Posted on May 08, 2009
David Dayton over at the Silk Road International Blog has a great post on sourcing from China, entitled, "Smart Steps for Effective Sourcing in Tough Economic Times." It is an outline of a presentation he gives at Global Sources China Sourcing Shows. My biggest complaint is that David leaves his most important comment for last: "Get your lawyers involved early (just to be safe)...

Blawg Review #210

Posted on May 04, 2009
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Bob Dylan, from his song, My Back Pages, presumably in reference to my previous Blawg Review, Blawg Review #162 "Peace lies not in the world...

China Real Estate Stirring?

Posted on May 03, 2009
For months and months and months and months, my law firm had not been involved in a single China commercial real estate deal. Not one. Sure, we assisted a foreigner or two in buying (or selling) a condo in which to live, but nothing at all on the investment front...

China Power Summit 2009. May 22-23, 2009 In Beijing.

Posted on May 01, 2009
The China Power Summit is going to be in Beijing from May 22-23 this year and China Law Blog's own Steve Dickinson will be a featured speaker. Steve will be reprising (and updating) his speech on how foreign companies can best protect themselves when getting into Chinese joint ventures...

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