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China Is One Lousy Investor. And This Is What We Are Waiting For?

Posted on December 05, 2008
In its post, "China Not Brave Enough to Save the World," the always excellent China Economics Blog, makes the valid point that China (and by China I think we mean the China sovereign funds) is a terrible investor. Its history indicates that and according to this article, so will its future...

China Kills Recycling! Waste Monster Keeps Growing!

Posted on December 03, 2008
One of the things that has always fascinated me about microeconomics is how imperfectly it can track the macro picture. For example, on the macro level, we might hear of a country experiencing negative growth, but on the micro level, this means some companies might still be growing at 20 percent a year...

China PR Says Everything Is Fine And That Ain't Just Spin.

Posted on December 02, 2008
Interesting though admittedly somewhat unscientific poll up on the Capital Record blog (a consistently thoughtful blog which I just added to our blogroll), in its post, "Poll portends positive for China PR." The post is on a poll conducted on the blog finding that 75% of 56 respondents see a positive year ahead for PR in China: Sure, it?s not a statistically valid sample size, but we assume all those who took part in the...

Vote China Law Blog. Pretty Please.

Posted on December 02, 2008
The ABA Journal (the official publication of the American Bar Association, the leading group for American lawyers, not tavern owners) recently named China Law Blog as one of the top 100 law blogs in the World. Well actually the world of American lawyer blogs, but as long as George Bush remains President, and he will through the duration of the blog election, I do not think it a stretch to say it is of...

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If It's December, It Must Be China Blog Award Season.

Posted on December 01, 2008
Chinalyst.net is doing their annual China Blog Awards and China Law Blog is not in this year's competition. "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve." I have nothing but the greatest respect for Chinalyst, the people behind it, and for the competition itself and I truly was honored last year when you, our readers, voted us the Best China Blog in the Business/Law category...

Chinapolis: A Bit About China's Big Five Cities

Posted on December 01, 2008
The most recent issue of Foreign Policy Magazine has a story entitled, the "Global Cities Index," in setting out the 60 cities "that shape our lives the most." Beijing (#12), Shanghai (#20), Guangzhou (#52), Shenzhen (#54) and Chongqing (#59) made the list and a sidebar article entitled, "Chinapolis," provides the following information on these cities: Beijing (#12) Population: 11...

Reflections Of THE China Bridge Blogger.

Posted on December 01, 2008
EastSouthWestNorth. Is any English language China blog more influential? I don't think so. Roland Song of ESWN was to give a speech at CNBloggercon, but was unable to attend due to a family emergency, so he has put online what he was going to say, entitled, "Reflections of a Bridge Blogger...

Why Not To Get Sick In China.

Posted on November 30, 2008
David Dayton of Silk Road International has a fascinating, though disquieting post, entitled, "Another Trip to the Healthy Department." Dayton's father was a doctor and Dayton tells us (in vivid detail) why he thinks it better never ever ever to go to a hospital in China, which hospitals he describes (based on a far amount of international experience) as being the worst he has ever seen...

David Dollar's Blog. I Almost Love It.

Posted on November 30, 2008
There are four kinds of people: 1. Those who truly love the Financial Times and the Economist Magazine. 2. Those who claim to love the Financial Times and the Economist Magazine, but only because they want to be viewed a certain way. 3. Those who read the Financial Times and the Economist because they know they should, and 4...

China's Economy Will Be Hurting. Unless It Isn't.

Posted on November 30, 2008
Elliot Ng over at CnReviews just came out with a very thoughtful post analyzing China's economy. The post is entitled, "Global financial crisis will hurt China much more than the US," and it says China's economy is based on a three legged stool, two of which are weak...

China Losing Manufacturing Luster. I Buy That.

Posted on November 30, 2008
I am always saying that my law firm's clients (virtually all of whom are SMEs doing business internationally) are not leaving China because of its new Labor Contract Law, not leaving China because of its increased costs, and not leaving China because Vietnam is better...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About China's Economy

Posted on November 28, 2008
A good friend of mine who is an executive at a large American Bank that owns a good-sized chunk of a large China bank, sent me this report on China's economy from the World Bank. He said that "his" bankers think very highly of this report, as do I. Its highlights, as set forth on the World Bank's own website: The impact of the international financial and economic turmoil on China?s economy has been manageable...

How To Treat Your China Employees. I Dunno.

Posted on November 27, 2008
Interesting article by James Hudson over at China Success Stories. Article is entitled, "Want Committed Employees? Learn to Trust Them." Its thesis is that if you want your Chinese employee to work hard for the company, like the company, and do what he or she can for the company, you, as the company, must show real faith in your employee...

China's Bar Exam. It's Getting Better All The Time.

Posted on November 26, 2008
In his post, "The Bar is Passing People By," A Modern Lei Feng sets out the following pass rates for China's bar exam: 2002 - 8%? 2003 - 11% 2004 - 11% 2005 - 14% 2006 - 15% 2007 - 22% He goes on to posit that the percentages for this year's recently completed bar exam will be even higher and wonders whether China's rising bar pass rate will be a permanent thing...

China Agricultural Opportunities. Shandong Province As The Place To Be.

Posted on November 25, 2008
I knew it. I knew China's new land reform laws making leasing of farmland easier and potentially more profitable would lead to opportunities relating to agriculture. But it took David Wolf over at the always interesting (you HAVE to check out the string of comments on this post!!!??!) Silicon Hutong and his post, "Why Land Reform is a Tech Opportunity," to explain exactly what those opportunities will be...

China In Pictures. MUST SEE.

Posted on November 23, 2008
Google just came out with millions of photographs from the archives of Life Magazine and, as anyone who has seen Life Magazine would know, they are riveting (h/t Shanghaiist), I have been checking out photos of old Shanghai and Beijing (a/k/a Peking)...

China: Why PR And The Government Matter.

Posted on November 23, 2008
In its post "More Sympathy for Microsoft," China Hearsay, very starkly does an excellent job highlighting why businesses should not/cannot ignore public relations and the Chinese government when making their key decisions. The post is on how Microsoft is getting so much heat from its decision to momentarily black out computer screens of those using counterfeit Microsoft software and how that tactic would almost certainly have gone better had Microsoft secured prior government approval before...

China As United States Or 350 Albanias?

Posted on November 23, 2008
Fascinating post over at China Economics Blog, entitled, "The geographic similarities between China and the US." The post is on a recent Financial Times (FT) article, entitled, "How China can be more than 350 Albanias," that starts out noting all kinds of similarities between China and the US, but concludes by pointing out that China's per capita income is still less than that of Albania, though with 350 times the population...

China: Find Me That Factory! Part II

Posted on November 23, 2008
A few days ago, in a post entitled, "China: Find Me That Factory," I wrote of how not a single client of my firm has been impacted by factory closures in China and I wondered what sort of factories it is that are closing: But, and I know this is going to sound strange, I have been asking my firm's China clients just about every weekday for the last month how they have been impacted...

How To Go To China For Innovation

Posted on November 23, 2008
Business Week has an interesting article touting innovation in China and the other BRICs (Brazil, Russia, and India). (h/t to China Challenges) The article is entitled, "China and India: New Innovation and Talent Forces" and it is subtitled, "China and India are catching up quickly with Western nations in providing homegrown talent as well as heavy investment in R&D...

Where China's Universities Rank

Posted on November 22, 2008
US News & World Report just came out with its rankings of the best universities in the World (h/t to Above the Law, which had my firm being acquired by Baker & McKenzie?) US News' rankings of US colleges and universities are hugely influential in terms of where people apply to college...

China Factories. Do You, You, Feel Like I Do? Part II

Posted on November 21, 2008
There ought to be a law against quoting Peter Frampton twice in one week. The other day, I did a post on how to know, in a blink, whether the factory with whom you are contemplating a business relationship is a good one. We received some comments with such excellent additional gut-check type indicators, I felt a second post was warranted...

China's Internet. A How-To For SMEs

Posted on November 20, 2008
There is a strange dearth of materials out there for foreign companies seeking the nuts and bolts of how to get into selling their products online in and into China. I was recently alerted to an paper written on this very subject by Lisa Conklin, for her MBA degree at Fudan University...

China: Find Me That Factory!

Posted on November 19, 2008
There is an old joke about a United Nations family planning conference. A leader up front, trying to scare people about overpopulation, exclaims how there is a woman giving birth somewhere in the world every 3 seconds. A jokester at the back of the room stands up and says, "find me that woman!" I thought of that joke today...

China Factories. Do You, You, Feel Like I Do?

Posted on November 19, 2008
I am always touting Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink. Reduced to two sentences, its thesis is that we humans overly worship logic to the detriment of our gut instincts, which are actually based on our lifetime of experience. In other words, your initial feeling about something is far more accurate than you think...

Why Your Chances Of Not Getting Your First China Order Are So High.

Posted on November 17, 2008
Just about every week, my firm gets contacted by a US company that ordered product from China and never got anything or got something multiple levels of magnitude less than what they ordered. Much of the time, this is a first order from China. The US company is usually asking us what they can do to recover and most of the time (because the amount at stake is too little to hire an American law...

One Out of 1.3 Billion Loses It And Newsweek Proclaims China As "Most Stressful" Place On Earth.

Posted on November 16, 2008
"Santa Clara" is among my Google alerts because my eldest daughter studies engineering at the University there. Friday, it was filled with stories of an engineer (apparently Chinese-American) who, after being laid off from his high tech start-up, killed three people at the company where he once worked...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Project

Posted on November 16, 2008
The Green Leap Forward recently did a comprehensive overview of the Singapore-China eco-city going up on a massive scale just outside Tianjin. If you have any interest in eco-development, you should check it this post, entitled, "Creating A Better Life: A Closer Look at the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Project...

Promising China Blog: The China Observer.

Posted on November 14, 2008
The China Observer blog has been up for about two months now and I have already become a regular reader. The blog is written by Joel Backaler, who describes himself as follows: Joel Backaler (???) first traveled to Beijing in 2001 and has since returned to the capital city where he works as the only non-Chinese analyst for a leading multinational IT and management consulting firm...

China: I Don't Want No Cheap Labor.

Posted on November 14, 2008
Years ago, I wrote about how I ended up on the same Asiana Airlines Qingdao-Seoul-Seattle flight as a long-time client and friend of mine whose company, among other things, had been hugely successful in China in an industry where just about every other foreign company had failed...

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