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Promising China Blog: ChinaBizGov

Posted on January 06, 2009
Of those who comment on our blog, I never remember who agrees or disagrees with me on issues, but I always remember those who make me think. That is why I remember G.E. Anderson and that is why I was so happy to learn (from Professor Donald Clarke, the brains behind the Chinese Law Professor Blog) that G...

The China Economy For Foreign Companies

Posted on January 04, 2009
I was interviewed a couple weeks ago by a reporter who wanted to know what impact the declining economy in China was having on my law firm's clients. I told her none. I said that so far, anyway, not a single client had even mentioned China's declining economy as a factor in its decision-making...

China's New Patent Law Amendments. The Times They Are A Changing....

Posted on January 01, 2009
Recieved an email from Toronto-based international lawyer, Paul Jones, on China's just amended patent laws. I liked it so much, I secured Paul's permission to run it here: "Last week in Beijing there was the last meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People?s Congress for 2008...

Employment In China Is Job One. Make This Your Business.

Posted on December 30, 2008
When I was in high school, I went to a bakery in Budapest, Hungary, during the Communist era. The bakery was tiny, the kind that in the United States would have at most two people working there. I was the only customer. I ordered from one woman, was instructed to go to the cash register by another woman, had my pastry wrapped by another woman, handed to me by a fourth woman, and paid a...

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Is China Going Green, Part XVIII: It Is, But Damn It's Tough To Make A Buck On China GreenTech.

Posted on December 29, 2008
One of the great things about being a lawyer is that you get to work with and observe a diversity of businesses. My firm has helped all kinds of businesses get into China and do deals with Chinese companies and if I had to single out one industry that has the highest percentage of failures, I would pick those that are environmentally related...

Protection Money And Your China Business. Are We There Yet?

Posted on December 27, 2008
"I won't pay. I know too much about extortion." Tony Soprano, Season 3, Episode 7, "Second Opinion" One of the "interesting" things about representing companies in emerging markets is the huge variance organized crime can play. The Associated Press, in a story entitled, "China readies for crackdown on organized crime," recently wrote on how the Chinese government is cracking down on organized crime There is one country in which my firm does a substantial amount...

China Melamine Yet Again And This Time It's Getting Mighty Fishy.

Posted on December 25, 2008
Most of you probably already know more about melamine than they ever expected. Melamine refers to both a chemical and to a resin produced from it. Human ingestion of melamine "may lead to reproductive damage, or bladder or kidney stones, which can lead to bladder cancer...

Bernie Maddoff's China Connection. Be Careful Out There.

Posted on December 24, 2008
Went to a party last night where a large group of us discussed the following scams: 1. Bernie Madoff. 2. Mark Dreier. I brought this one up and I have to give Dreir credit for managing to pull off a 300 million dollar scam, yet gain very little recognition for it because Madoff so quickly threw him off the front pages...

China Sourcing Done Right In These Tough Times.

Posted on December 22, 2008
The weakened economy has served to highlight the renewed need to engage in best practices when securing product from China and Ashton Udall over at the Global Sourcing Blog has a nice post out on what companies need to be doing on this front in these tough times...

China Heavy: He's Back....

Posted on December 21, 2008
Jack Perkowski, who knows as much about China business as anyone, recently wrote a piece for the Far Eastern Economic Review, entitled, "The Return of China Heavy." By China Heavy, Perkowski is referring to what some call the "real China," the China beyond the Westernized portions of places like Shanghai and Beijing...

How To Secure Your China Quote.

Posted on December 21, 2008
Not exactly sexy, but absolutely crucial for anyone sourcing product from China are the nuts and bolts of how to do so. I have been around long enough to see the countless mistakes sourcing neophytes can make when buying product overseas, including the following: 1...

There Are The Laws When Times Are Good And There Are The Laws When Times Are Bad. Are China's Bureucrats Shock Troops Against Foreign Business?

Posted on December 19, 2008
One of the things I love about being an international lawyer is using outside events to interpret the law. Now I know this is going to anger a lot of people, but non-lawyers generally do a terrible job interpreting the law. This is true worldwide. Examples of this abound: Non-lawyers tend to look for "the law" that applies to their situation...

US Files WTO Case Against China. Tell Us Something We Don't Know.

Posted on December 19, 2008
The United States has hit China with a WTO case, contending China has been subsidizing its exporters, particularly its largest and best known companies. The US government is alleging that China's central government, provinces and cities have all been paying subsidizing many Chinese companies that export...

China: Still THE Place For Growth.

Posted on December 18, 2008
In a post entitled, "Why China Matters, Part 2," Steve Ganster explains why Western businesses should and do continue to look to China for growth and for manufacturing. Yes, China's growth is slowing considerably, but at least we are still using the word, "growth...

China, Somali Piracy, And Minding The Gap.

Posted on December 18, 2008
I am a big fan of Thomas Barnett who is, perhaps, most famous for dividing countries between core and gap, as explained here by Wikipedia: Barnett has termed the globalized countries the "Functioning Core," or simply "the Core." The other countries are part of the "Non-Integrating Gap," or simply "the Gap...

You Want China Guanxi? You Can't Handle China Guanxi.

Posted on December 17, 2008
Apologies to Jack Nicholson. Having grown up in a small Midwestern city, I have an inherent (and what I see as a healthy) distrust of government. Every government. Anywhere. I was yet again reminded why when I read this excellent Wall Street Journal article on British Petroleum's recent problems in Russia, entitled, "Misreading the Kremlin Costs BP Control in Russia Venture...

Finance People. Shanghai Says Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

Posted on December 16, 2008
There is a fairly prevalent theory that the best time to start a new business is during a recession/depression. I buy that. During tough times, established companies often disappear, get overly cautious, and lay off scads of good people, who can be hired relatively cheaply...

China: It Ain't The Business, It's The Pot Of Cash.

Posted on December 13, 2008
I rarely have revelations, but after being knocked over the head countless times over the years, I finally got one regarding how Chinese businesspeople view their businesses differently from how American businesspeople view theirs. The other day, a deal my law firm had been working on for a US company fell through, much to the consternation of nearly everyone involved...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About China's Anti-Monopoly Law.

Posted on December 12, 2008
Global mega-firm DLA Piper has online an 18 page booklet that does a truly superb job of explaining China's anti-monopoly laws and how they will impact your business. [h/t Experience Not Logic, who appropriately called his post, "There's No Competing With This AML Guide"]...

"My China Business Has Just Fallen Off A F--king Cliff And You Want To Tell Me What I Should Do Next Time!?"

Posted on December 11, 2008
Phone calls from potential clients always start out fun and this economic downturn has brought in a whole slew of new clients and potential clients needing legal help in dealing with the economic downturn. This post is on three potential clients whose situations were so bad that I had to suggest they not hire us at all...

China And The US. Which Of Us Is The Most Capitalistic?

Posted on December 11, 2008
"'You sit by yourself grasshopper. What do you think of?' -Master Po 'My mother, my father. Both gone. I am alone.' 'You hear the flock of birds flying overhead? You hear the fish? The beetle?' To all of this the young Caine nods. 'In this crowded place you feel alone...

2009 China Holiday Schedule

Posted on December 11, 2008
CnReviews nicely sets out China's holiday schedule for 2009. Knowing me, I will probably remember to consult it only when nobody is responding to my emails/phone calls. The key dates are as follows: January 1-2 New Year's January 25-30 Chinese New Year April 4-6 Qingming Holiday May 1 Labor Day May 28-29 Duanwu Holiday October 1-8 National Day Just remember, January, April, May and big-time in October...

You Want A Lawyer Job In China (Asia)? Read This.

Posted on December 11, 2008
Above the Law (this is the site that had my firm merging with Baker & McKenzie???!), just did a post on how the Asian legal market is not as hot as the New York Times and other MSM have made it out to be. In other words, if you are a Western lawyer hoping to get hired in Asia, you had better have some credentials evidencing a serious Asia connection...

China Food Products: Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em.

Posted on December 10, 2008
Met with a food client today that imports about 85% of its product from Asia and nearly half that from China. Its sales are still growing. "But I thought people were moving away from China product because of all the safety scares," I said to him. "They are," he told me, "but not nearly as fast as they are running to them because of their low price and because they do not even know they...

China Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents. It's All The Same To Me, I'm An Air Conditioned ....

Posted on December 10, 2008
In its post, "Why I Should Stop Reading IP Case Summaries in the News," China Hearsay does a great job attacking a Xinhua news story on what appears to have been a legal victory by Apple Computer in a trademark lawsuit. China Hearsay is justifiably ticked off about the misstatements in and extreme vagueness (can something be extremely vague?) of the article and in attacking the article, actually (inadvertently) does a really good job setting...

Young, Educated, And Bi-Lingual And Making Less Than $20,000 A Year?

Posted on December 09, 2008
The always interesting BizCult is in the midst of a decidedly unscientific expat salary survey. In its post, "The Real Slim, Shady Expat Wages Stand Up," BizCult reveals that of "15 respondents so far, the majority are 26-30 year old professionals from North America making US$10,000-$19,000 a year...

The Chinese Are Coming, Part XVII. This Time's It's Real Estate And No, There Is No Visa With That.

Posted on December 08, 2008
All Roads Lead to China recently did a post entitled, "Real Estate Assets Lure Chinese Investors," on how a group of Chinese investors is going to the United States to purchase distressed homes. Yes, but mostly no. The article on which All Roads bases his post comes from the Shanghai Daily and it goes a long way towards confirming what I already thought...

China's New Labor Contract Law. Harmonized Out Of Existence?

Posted on December 08, 2008
As regular CLB readers now, we have been flacking China's new labor contract law since even before its inception at the beginning of this year. Without a doubt, it has been one of our two or three most popular topics. To wit: --"China's Proposed Labor Law:Going After Capitalists Like China, 1967" -- "China's Proposed Labor Law Causing Sucking Sounds" -- "China's New Labor Law: Enforcement Is The Key" -- "China's Brand New Labor Law Regulations...

Ranking Creditors. China Comes In Dead Last.

Posted on December 06, 2008
I had a long and arduous meeting recently with a long term client. The client had called me to discuss its difficulties in getting paid and its difficulties in making its payments. I suggested a big meeting, to which he bring all of the documents relating to those to whom his company owed money and all of those who owed his company...

Sexism China Style. Not A Good Thing.

Posted on December 05, 2008
When I first read this post over at the Josh in China blog (why are there so many Joshs in China, anyway?), I smiled. But then I frowned. Okay, I didn't really frown, but I'm going for literary effect here. The post is entitled, "Interesting Cultural Differences" and it astutely (albeit reflexively) notes how the women at Chinese toll booths are uniformly "extremely good looking girls...

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