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China Visas. I'm Getting Deja Vu Olympic Feelings, Part II, The Now I Know I Am Right Edition.

Posted on April 29, 2009
Three days ago, I did a post entitled, "China Visas. I'm Getting Deja Vu Olympic Feelings," in which I talked about having heard from clients of difficulties in getting their China visas: One of the great things a about being a lawyer is that we hear all kinds of things from our clients and potential clients...

Avoiding Chinese Jails. I'm Talkin' To You.

Posted on April 28, 2009
In her post, Hot Water in China? Don?t Get Burned: Part I, Aimee Barnes highlights how important it is for foreigners to follow the law in China. All of the laws. All of the time. No matter how much you may disagree with them, no matter how silly you may find them, and no matter how different they may be from those to which you are accustomed...

Foreign Direct Investment In China. The Times Have Changed. For Good.

Posted on April 27, 2009
China Law Blog's Steve Dickinson recently did a China Economic Review column on China's efforts to move away from being an "export-led" economy. The column is entitled, "No Turning Back," [subscription required] and its thesis is that despite the economic downturn, China's overall macroeconomic plan is still moving forward...

Everything (And A Whole Lot More) You Wanted To Know About China Law Blog In 140 Characters.

Posted on April 26, 2009
@22tweets interviewed me via twitter the other day and that interview is now online here. Because it was on twitter, I was limited to 140 character answers (actually it was even less than that as some of the 140 characters went towards the address and the hashtag)...

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Can Someone Explain China Retail?

Posted on April 26, 2009
I am being serious here. I just recently got back from a China trip with my eleven year old daughter. Like most 11 year old girls, she loves to shop for clothes and she really is quite knowledgeable about them. Though we went to other places as well, she did her clothes shopping in Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul, Korea...

China Visas. I'm Getting Deja Vu Olympic Feelings.

Posted on April 26, 2009
One of the great things a about being a lawyer is that we hear all kinds of things from our clients and potential clients. And then when we start hearing those same things on the blogs, we know something is up. I am hearing a lot of things about the difficulty of getting anything but a three month visa...

Wanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help. Part II, The Corporate Counsel Edition.

Posted on April 25, 2009
I should have waited a couple of days. The day before yesterday, I did a post on foreign employees getting sued in China by their ex-employees, entitled, "Wanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help." Today, Corporate Counsel Magazine came out with a related article, in which I am quoted...

Wanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help.

Posted on April 24, 2009
China Daily (h/t to my friend Brian over at China Challenges) just came out with an article headlined, "Cases soar as workers seek redress." The article gives facts behind what many of us already knew: "the number of labor disputes heard by courts has skyrocketed this year...

On How To Handle The Accidental China Business

Posted on April 23, 2009
Interesting post by Andrew Hupert over at China Solved, entitled, "Selling China to the Accidental Expats." The post is intended to instruct China consultants on how they should handle calls from American companies that have now decided they must take advantage of China's growing market...

Chinese Drywall Cases. Show Me The Money!

Posted on April 22, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog did a post the other day touting Chinese drywall as the next big mass tort action in the United States. The post is entitled, "Does the New Product-Liability Boom Lie . . . Inside the Walls?" and to the extent it hints at a "yes" answer, it is likely going to be dead wrong...

Hutong Economics.....China Business?

Posted on April 21, 2009
I am in the middle of a post on why the Chinese drywall cases are no big deal but I can't seem to get out of my head a very short post over at Letter From China. The post is entitled "Hutong Economics," and it very briefly (I know I earlier already described it as "very short") discusses the opening and closing of a tiny Beijing food stand, all within an eight week span...

Working With Chinese and Korean Lawyers. The Big Four Problems With Each.

Posted on April 19, 2009
Last year, I wrote an article for the Complete Lawyer, entitled, "Working with Korean and Chinese Lawyers." I was originally asked to write on working with Asian lawyers, in general, but convinced the magazine to allow me to focus on just China and Korea...

Jackie Chan Is A Know-Nothing Self-Loathing Racist.

Posted on April 19, 2009
The title sums up my initial reaction to the news of Jackie Chan dissing the Chinese people by essentially saying they are too messed up to ever be able to handle democracy. I was going to write a blog post criticizing Chan for his comments and noting how the same thing has been said about other countries that are now democracies (the United States, Japan, West Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea immediately come to...

Working With Chinese and Korean Lawyers. The Big Four Issues With Each.

Ignore China's Low End Market At Your Peril. Oh, And Don't Forget The High End Either.

Posted on April 17, 2009
The other day I did a post, entitled, "China Business. Which Comes First The Wealth Or The Low End?" on a discussion I had with Jack Perkowski regarding China's low end products market, how huge it is, and how foreign companies should not simply concede it to local companies...

What China's Credit Crunch Means For YOU.

Posted on April 14, 2009
The Financial Times just did a story, entitled, Fears rise on China groups? payments on how private Chinese companies are being negatively impacted by the credit crunch (h/t to China Economics Blog). China's credit crunch is already having a large impact on American and European companies that do business with China and I see that impact only growing...

United States Job Creation, China Style.

Posted on April 13, 2009
About a month ago, I wrote a post, entitled, "China. Friend Or Foe? Opportunity Or Challenge? Or, Why Can't We All Just Get Along?" The post was on an unnamed client of mine who had written me an email regarding a wind energy project in which he had helped an Ohio company secure necessary parts from China...

China: I'll Take You There.....Flowing Waters Never Stale.

Posted on April 12, 2009
One of the best/worst things about this blog is that just about every book that comes out on China finds its way to my desk, gratis. Most sit on my credenza for a few weeks, and then get moved to my bookcase, where I look at them from afar. I'm planning to read all of them eventually, but, you know...

China Business. Which Comes First The Wealth Or The Low End?

Posted on April 11, 2009
Had breakfast yesterday with Jack Perkowski, author of the book, Managing the Dragon, and the blog of the same name. Jack recently left as CEO of Asimco Technologies to start JFP Holdings, "a merchant bank for China." Jack has been doing business in China for a long time and he clearly knows whereof he speaks and I found his stories on China business fascinating and enlightening...

China's Labor Laws: The Cultural Disconnect Goes Both Ways.

Posted on April 05, 2009
Last week, I attended co-blogger Steve Dickinson's lecture on China labor law. Steve's lecture was part of a truly superb Doing Business in China seminar put on by Global Nav. The thrust of Steve's speech was that labor laws in China have changed, they are being enforced against foreigners, and they are very different from U...

On The Importance Of "Face" In China Legal.

Posted on April 01, 2009
China Daily did an article the other day on how China's courts are now going to post its unpaid judgments online. It is entitled, "Court launches website showing who hasn't paid." A bit of background is in order. China's court system (and I am talking about commercial disputes ONLY) is not as bad as is so widely believed in the West...

On The Importance Of "Face" In China Legal.

MY China Hearsay Post

Posted on March 29, 2009
China Hearsay has a great post on private equity and investment bankers in China. The post is entitled, "Great Recession Watch ? Living With Mendacity in China." Why am I certain it is a great post? Because I wrote that same post, with that exact same conversation, IN MY HEAD, many times...

Fake China Joint Ventures. Why You Calling Me, I'm Not The Guy!

Posted on March 27, 2009
Four in the mornin and they haul rubin in, Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs. The wounded man looks up through his one dyin eye Says, whad you bring him in here for? he aint the guy! Bob Dylan, Hurricane (for the other side of the story, go here) Not sure why, but just about every week for the last month, I have been getting calls or emails from tiny tech...

The Legal Basics On Starting A China Business. Clinical Testing As Example.

Posted on March 25, 2009
One of the many things I love about being a lawyer is learning about various industries. What so happens to lawyers is that we get one client in an industry, and then, through word of mouth, we end up getting a whole slew of others in the same industry...

Workshop On China's Second Tier Cities: Qingdao And Ningbo. Shanghai Westin Bund, March 31.

Posted on March 25, 2009
China Law Blog's own Steve Dickinson and Bill Dodson of the This is China Blog will be sharing the stage at the upcoming Benulux Chamber of Commerce (BenCham) workshop. The workshop is being put on "in cooperation with SwissCham and The JLJ Group" at the Westin Bund in Shanghai on March 31...

How To Shut Down Your China Business. Hint: Do Not Emulate The Baltimore Colts.

Posted on March 24, 2009
Just about whenever I read about some company leaving China in the middle of the night, I think about the Baltimore Colts and this line from "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem": statistic: the US bureau of missing persons re- ports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor trace only a space in the lives of their friends Then I wonder if the company that has left China without leaving...

China WFOE. Do It Right Or Your Money Never Leaves.

Posted on March 22, 2009
We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave! China Economics Blog used the term, Hotel California effect (borrowing from a scholarly article), to describe the problems foreigners so often have in getting their money out of China...

Ethnic Profiling And China Business

Posted on March 21, 2009
Make no mistake about it, even in these allegedly enlightened times, a whole lot of stereotyping and ethnic profiling goes on in international business. The other day, I was telling an American client how it was time for us to look start seizing assets of a Norwegian company that owed my client a lot of money and appeared to be making no effort to pay it...

Coke's Failed China Deal. Private Equity Will Live To Do Deals Another Day.

Posted on March 19, 2009
The South China Post did a story today on China's having used its antitrust law to block Coke's purchase of Huiyuan. The article is entitled, "China raises chills as Coke bid bottled up," and it talks about whether the blocking of this deal will signal the death of foreign private equity investments in China...

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