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Dudano, Mind Your China Manners. Or How To Make International Whoopee.

Posted on September 04, 2008
Back before the true advent of reality TV, I used to love watching the Newlywed Game. Back in its day, that show, more than any other, evidenced the lengths to which people were willing to humiliate themselves for fifteen minutes of fame. My favorite episode was when the host, Bob Eubanks, asked the wives if they were to write a book about themselves that devoted one page to each man with whom they had made...

Steve Dickinson To Speak On China Law And Economics At China Economic Review Breakfast. Shanghai, September 26.

Posted on September 03, 2008
China Law Blog's own Steve Dickinson will be the Keynote speaker at the China Economic Review Breakfast Series on Friday, September 26, at the JW Marriott Hotel at Tomorrow Square. Steve's talk will begin at 8:40 am, but the breakfast itself starts at 7:30 am...

Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin On China

Posted on September 02, 2008
China Comment has a nice piece up, entititled, "China and the American Election," analyzing which side (Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin) would be better for US-China relations and concludes McCain likely would be, by a slim margin. What do you think? NOTE: Silk Road International just came out with its own advice regarding the candidates' positions on China: don't believe "anything" you hear...

China Arbitration. When, Why, Why Not, And Where.

Posted on September 01, 2008
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson recently wrote a column for the China Economic Review on the plusses and minuses of arbitration provisions in contracts with Chinese companies. The article is entitled, "Overseas arbitration and enforcing contracts in China," and, not surprisingly, it says that decisions on whether to arbitrate should be made on a case by case basis...

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National Security Review Under China's New Anti-Monopoly Law

Posted on August 29, 2008
By Steve Dickinson China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) recently reported on its plans for forming an interagency committee to review the national security impacts of foreign acquisitions of Chinese companies. Contrary to many of the news reports in both English and Chinese, this is not a new policy adopted by the NDRC...

China: Where The News Is Always Good.

Posted on August 28, 2008
Black and White Cat does a great job showing how China's media sanitizes foreign media articles on China, in its post entitled, "How the New York Times (should have) covered the Olympics." I am "speechless" not because I am surprised (I am not), but because the post speaks volumes all by itself...

Why To Go To China For Growth And How To Succeed At It

Posted on August 28, 2008
Very good article on China Success Stories on why and how to sell and market in and to China. Article is written by Beijing-based advertising guru Dan Mintz and is entitled "Sagging Markets? Look To China: Wealthy Chinese consumers are ripe for the pitching, but approach with caution...

Tony Blair Gets It Right On China. Why Not America?

Posted on August 27, 2008
England's former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today that lays out exactly how the West should deal with a resurgent China, and why. Do politicians have to retire from office to speak coherently and sensibly on foreign policy, or has Blair always been so smart? After listening to months of foreign policy pablum from Barrack Obama, John McCain and now Joe Biden (will someone please explain to...

China's Anti-Monopoly Law. People, We've Got The Rules.

Posted on August 27, 2008
By Steve Dickinson On August 3, 2008, the PRC State Council released its long awaited merger notification rules: Regulation on Notification Thresholds for Concentrations of Undertakings, State Council Regulation Number 529, available online in Chinese here...

Beijing Olympic Quote Of The Day

Posted on August 26, 2008
Of course this one is late, but I just heard it on The Daily Show, where Jon Stewart refers to the little girl who sang the opening night song, but whose face did not make it on TV: You thought your middle school days were tough? Imagine if your government got together and decided you were not cute...

Phillip Pan's "Out Of Mao's Shadow" Is One Great Book.

Posted on August 25, 2008
"If you want to make an omelet, you must be willing to break a few eggs." Vladmir Lenin "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.." Lord Acton Phillip Pan, former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief has written a great book on China, entitled, "Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China...

Beijing Olympics Quote Of The Day

Posted on August 23, 2008
This one from Steve Kelley, consistently excellent sportswriter for the Seattle Times, in an article entitled, "Usain Bolt electrifies Beijing, winning the 200 in a world-record time": If you're old enough to remember the first time you saw Muhammad Ali, the first time you saw Roberto Clemente, the first time you saw Magic Johnson, watching Bolt has that same never-seen-it-before feeling...

China Too Expensive? That Depends

Posted on August 22, 2008
All Roads Lead to China has a very helpful post, entitled, "Is China No Longer Competitive?" All Roads asks the question and then proceeds to answer it in the only sensible way: it depends. The question is asked in the context of all the media reports of prices rising in China and companies fleeing because of it...

Shanghai And Beijing Maps Good Enough For Tom Cruise

Posted on August 21, 2008
Mapmatrix.com has what appear to be excellent maps of Shanghai and Beijing in pdf format. (h/t to James Fallows)...

China Quality Control (QC). Who To Hire?

Posted on August 21, 2008
The relatively new Quality Wars blog is looking like it will be a good source of information on quality control (QC) in China. The blog's subtitle is "The fight for quality export product in China." I especially liked two of its posts. The first, entitled, "QC?In-house vs...

Postcard From Beijing: Home Of Clean Air And Cheap Beer.

Posted on August 20, 2008
Just got an email from my friend and blogger extraordinaire, Ben Ross. I thought it did a nice job encapsulating what is going on in Beijing these days and after I secured his permission to post it, here goes: Just wanted to give everybody a quick update from Beijing...

Chinese Litigation: This Is The Way (Uh Huh) We Like It

Posted on August 20, 2008
By Steve Dickinson When we draft contracts in China, our foreign company clients usually instruct us to have the contract be governed by foreign law and for any disputes to be decided by arbitration, preferably outside of China. This is often a mistake...

Beijing Olympics Quote Of The Day

Posted on August 19, 2008
James Fallows telling us not to worry about the plethora of "I love China" decals we are seeing on so many Chinese people's faces: History is full of examples of "rising national powers" getting the big head, feeling arrogant, and doing dangerous things...

China's 10 Worst Laws

Posted on August 19, 2008
Foreign Policy Magazine is out with a fascinating and very well done list of China's 10 worst laws (damn, why didn't I think of that). (h/t to Jeremiah over at Peking Duck) I certainly agree with most of those on the list, but I hardly think it fair to put the New Property Rights Law on there...

On The Benefits Of Chinglish

Posted on August 19, 2008
Very insightful post on Matt Schiavenza's blog, entitled, "Why Chinglish Exists." Post starts out with a great story on the Great Communicator (Ronald Reagan) and then explains the marketing benefits of using English, no matter how mangled: In mainland China, having English advertisements represents modernity, internationalism, and sophistication...

Qingdao Olympic Update (Live)

Posted on August 18, 2008
Qingdao Olympics Report Week Two August 18, 2008 By: Steve Dickinson From: Qingdao, China We are heading into week two of the Olympic Sailing Events here in Qingdao. It is time for a short report. In order to host the Olympic sailing events, Qingdao built a modern sailing center right in the heart of the central business district...

Beijing Olympics Quote Of The Day

Posted on August 18, 2008
Too good a line not to repeat. It is from a Lost Laowai post, entitled, "Beijing: Chinatown in Disneyland," reflecting on the atmosphere in Beijing during the Olympics: The Beijing people seem happy in the way that the staff at a five star hotel are happy, but not in the way that a group of old men playing mahjong in a hutong are happy...

Qingdao Olympic Update (Live)

Our Policies, Biases, And Conflicts

Posted on August 17, 2008
I am a huge fan of Seth Godin's books and of his blog. His piece, "Small is the new big," is a classic. Godin is a marketing genius. On Godin's blog yestertoday, he had the following post, entitled, "Policies, biases and conflicts": I don't take advertising on this site...

Who Is Winning The Olympics?

Posted on August 17, 2008
So is it gold medals that determine it or is it total medals? Should we give 3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver, and one for a bronze? And shouldn't team sports in something big-time like basketball or volleyball or even soccer count for more than an individual metal in synchronized dive wrestling? For more on this, check out James Fallows' post, "More on Chauvinism...

Global Rainmaking. What's Good For Lawyers Is Good For All.

Posted on August 17, 2008
The International Lawyer Coach has an excellent post, entitled, "Global Rainmaking Tips: Pointers on Developing Clients Abroad." Though the post is geared towards international lawyers, its advice no doubt applies to nearly everyone trying to globalize their service business...

Basketball As China Metaphor: The Expanded Edition.

Posted on August 16, 2008
Will Lewis over at Experience Not Logic has an interesting post up riffing on my post wondering why China cannot produce an elite point guard, nicely weaving in the David Brooks/James Fallows/John Pomfret discussion on individualism versus collectivism...

China Olympics Athlete Blog List And Why No Chinese Magic Johnson?

Posted on August 15, 2008
Got an email this morning asking me why I was not writing more on the Olympics. Main reason is because I am vacationing in Pentwater, Michigan, placing me about 1800 miles from my 50" HDTV and forcing me to watch it on a 21" circa 1970s model. But, I have asked co-blogger, Steve Dickinson, who is in Qingdao right now, to give us all a report on the Olympic goings-on there...

Everything You Want To Know About China's Internet. Just Ask.

Posted on August 14, 2008
Nothing new here (near as I can tell), but nice collection of facts and figures regarding China's internet can be found on Trendspotting by going here. (h/t to China Venture News)...

Is China Going Green, Part XVII: Increased Tax On Large Cars Says "Sort Of."

Posted on August 14, 2008
China Environmental Law Blog has a short post, entitled, "Big Cars Face Big Tax: Fat Cats Unfazed," nicely summarizing recent changes (to become effective on September 1) to China's car tax: Cars with engines above 4-liter capacity: 40% tax Cars with engines between 3 and 4 liters: 25% tax (up from 15%) Cars with engines below 1-liter capacity: 1% tax (reduced from 3%) The stated goal is to reduce pollution and energy use...

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