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07 Nov 09 visit International Business Law Advisor Our blogroll is very intentionally limited to blogs on China or, at minimum, those with a decided China focus. If we were to open it beyond these confines, I have no idea what the new confines would be, our blogroll would... [[ This is a content summary...
07 Nov 09 visit China's NPC Comes Out With Draft Legislation For Public Comment The PRC National People's Congress has been focusing on increasing public involvement in China's lawmaking process. One technique it has been using to achieve that has been to issue draft laws and provide the public with an... [[ This is a content...
06 Nov 09 visit China U.S. Dispute Over Raw Materials. Rare Earths Are Key. The U.S. has formally requested the WTO establish a dispute resolution panel concerning China's recent decisions to restrict exports of certain key raw materials. This follows on the initial request for review made by the... [[ This is a content summary...
06 Nov 09 visit China's Changing Worldview Is Bad For Your Business In a recent article, entitled China's GDP growth likely to reach double digits again, Xinhua repeats another of the endless reports we here in China are constantly seeing projecting double digit growth for the Chinese... [[ This is a content summary...
05 Nov 09 visit How To Network In China. Tis Better To Give Face Than To Take It Away. I usually find these things way corny and stereotypical, but I actually kinda like this one. Shanghai Networking News has an article out, based on its having asked questions on Linkedin, on "What The Chinese Want You to Know... [[ This is a content...
05 Nov 09 visit Geely, China's Two Markets And Brushing Off EVERY Criticism Of Chinese Companies I apologize for the recent onslaught of posts on China's consumer market, but I cannot help it. There has just been a plethora (I know that's a pompous word, but I've always loved it anyway) of great stuff out there of late.... [[ This is a content...
04 Nov 09 visit China Joint Ventures Again. This Time We Blame The Victims. By Steve Dickinson Dan did a recent interview on joint ventures in China with Amcham and a couple of follow up posts, entitled, "Love The One You're With. When China Joint Ventures Make Sense," and "The China Joint Venture.... [[ This is a content...
04 Nov 09 visit Ad Age's 20 China Blogs For Marketers. Oh, And Everyone Else Too. Advertising Age Magazine just came out with its list of "20 Blogs Marketers to China Should Be Reading " and I like it. I like it not just because it lists China Law Blog (though I will admit I have trouble seeing past... [[ This is a content summary...
04 Nov 09 visit China's VanceInfo "Done Good" And We Are Honored To Have Helped. One of the things we lawyers have to live with is secrecy. Put simply, if we reveal client confidences we can lose our licenses. This necessarily leads us to be über careful. I have been uber careful about not mentioning a... [[ This is a content summar...
04 Nov 09 visit China Retail/I Heart Qingdao I am fascinated with China as a consumer market. It has 1.3 billion people and if one reaches just one percent of the market..... Joel Backaler over at China Observer blog just came out with a post assessing McKinsey's... [[ This is a content summary...
03 Nov 09 visit First Let's Kill All The Non-China Lawyers. When I started this blog, I swore I would never do a post apologizing for not posting nor would I ever do a post making any sort of excuse for not posting. We are all busy and I hate excuses and unless one thinks this post... [[ This is a content summary...
02 Nov 09 visit China And Its Many Rules One of the misconceptions I am always fighting about China is that it has no laws. Even people who should know better are oftentimes guilty of just assuming there is nothing on the books to cover a particular business law... [[ This is a content summary...
01 Nov 09 visit Chocolate Fortunes. China's Consumer Market Writ Large And It AIn't Easy.... Just finished the book, Chocolate Fortunes, by Lawrence L. Allen. It's a very good book. The book is about the competition between Hershey's, Mars, Ferraro Rocher, Nestle and Cadbury for the Chinese consumer. But it is... [[ This is a content summary...
29 Oct 09 visit China Joint Ventures. Again. The Transcript from my AmCham interview on China joint ventures is now online here. I am working on a post on how companies can best protect themselves if they do go forward with a joint venture in China, but in the... [[ This is a content summary only....
27 Oct 09 visit China. The Hope And The Opportunity. All Roads Lead to China just came out with a fascinating, but way too short, post on a few interviews of Shanghai's underclass. It is called, "It's All About Hope and Opportunity in China" and I urge everyone to read it. All... [[ This is a content...
27 Oct 09 visit Love The One You're With. When China Joint Ventures Make Sense. This is the follow-up post I promised to my last post on joint ventures, "The China Joint Venture. It's BACK!!!" I promised a follow up post because the first one received so many comments and a few of them raised issues I... [[ This is a content summary...
25 Oct 09 visit China Trademark Law. It's All Good. The World Trademark Review, in its article, "Research reveals increased US confidence in China’s rights enforcement regime," [subscription required for full article] just came out with a story on a recent US-China Business... [[ This is a content summa...
23 Oct 09 visit China Law Blog Is Miami Bound. Well not the blog itself, I guess, but me. I am heading to Jacksonville, FL, on October 27 to meet with a client and then the next day heading to Miami to speak at the American Bar Association's (ABA) International Law... [[ This is a content summary...
21 Oct 09 visit The China Joint Venture. It's BACK!!! AmCham China just posted an interview here of me regarding the return of joint ventures to China. Josh Gartner conducted the interview and he did a great job. Though joint ventures obviously never left China, there has... [[ This is a content summary...
18 Oct 09 visit Piracy In China. T'Ain't No Big Thing. Businesses are secretive. Some more so than others. My firm has a long history of representing companies in the international fishing business. Fishing companies are almost laughably secretive. I say laughably, because they try to keep things secret that...
18 Oct 09 visit The Tangled China Immigration Web Some Weave A reader sent me a link to a post from the very controversial blog, Atlas Shrugged. The post is entitled, "A Case of Perjury: Mohamed Bary's Vast Web of Lies." The gist of the story is that the Sri Lankan parents of a 17... [[ This is a content summary...
16 Oct 09 visit Piracy In China. T'Aint No Big Thing. Businesses are secretive. Some more so than others. My firm has a long history of representing companies in the international fishing business. Fishing companies are almost laughably secretive. I say laughably, because they... [[ This is a content...
14 Oct 09 visit China Criminal And Business Law. You Are Not In Kansas Any More. Just finished an interview with a reporter doing a story on Chinese drywall. I gave my usual speech on how there are three main aspects to protecting oneself from bad Chinese product: good relationships, good contracts, and... [[ This is a content...
13 Oct 09 visit Dual Language China Contracts Double Your Chance Of Disaster. Got an interesting email the other day regarding the language to use on a contract. It went as follows: I was talking to someone who was bragging about how great their employment contract was yesterday, and he said "My... [[ This is a content summary...
12 Oct 09 visit Setting Up Your China WFOE's Branch Office. My firm is constantly getting asked about what it takes to set up a branch office in another city in China. In other words, you already have your WFOE in place in, let's say, Shanghai, and you decide you want to open another... [[ This is a content...
06 Oct 09 visit Your Chinese-American VP Don't Know Diddley 'Bout China Law And I Have Friggin Had It. Before my law firm hires anyone, we make sure they do not have a problem with swearing. Because I do. I know I shouldn't, but darn, certain swear words are absolutely critical for communication. But when I started this blog,... [[ This is a content...
05 Oct 09 visit Chinese Drywall Cases Make U.S. Lawyers Angry. I Want My Lex Americana! I want my MTV. I will be speaking at a Chinese drywall seminar in New Orleans next month and that means I am on an email list that I think consists of others who will also be speaking at this seminar. Seeing as how this email list consists of around 100...
04 Oct 09 visit Chinese Drywall Cases Makes U.S. Lawyers Angry. I Want My Lex Americana! I want my MTV. I will be speaking at a Chinese drywall seminar in New Orleans next month and that means I am on an email list that I think consists of others who will also be speaking at this seminar. Seeing as how this... [[ This is a content summary...
30 Sep 09 visit Chongqing, China. Ka-ching? Got an email the other day on Chongqing that went as follows: Long-time reader _________from Chongqing here. Hope all has been well with you. First, I'm not sure how this could work into a post, or whether it is simply of... [[ This is a content summary...
28 Sep 09 visit China History 101. 1949-2009. FT.com has a very nicely put together, very informative timeline/article mapping out the key points in China's history. It is entitled, "People’s Republic of China at 60" and its pitch is that it allows you to "follow the... [[ This is a content summa...
27 Sep 09 visit China Blogs: That's The way, Uh-Huh Uh-Huh, We Like It, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh. Part II. About a month ago, in Part I of this series, I promised we would go through our blogroll and justify and expound upon each blog, five by five. This is the second in that series. As I mentioned in that last blog post, we pick... [[ This is a content...
23 Sep 09 visit China Company Formation: Meet The New Hong Kong. Same As The Old Hong Kong. Won't Get Fooled Again. My roommate my senior year in college was a Who fanatic. And when I say fanatic, I mean fanatic. This guy had lived a few years in London and he had the urban trench coat and the British accent down... [[ This is a content summary...
22 Sep 09 visit Understanding China FCPA Risks. Who Is A Foreign Official? I am becoming obsessed with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) because I see it as one of the the "most missed" things for United States companies doing business in or with China. The other day, I was interviewed by a... [[ This is a content...
20 Sep 09 visit China Law Journals In English Chinese Law Prof Blog recently did a post on Chinese law journals in English. His list consists of the following journals currently in publication: Frontiers of Law in China. Peking University Journal of Legal Studies. No... [[ This is a content summary...
20 Sep 09 visit China Marketing And Branding. Reading The Tea Leaves. The DragonBeat blog has a great post, entitled, "Why foreigners are beating China’s tea-makers on their home turf." The post is on why China has none of the leading tea brands worldwide, but what it says pretty much applies... [[ This is a conte...
16 Sep 09 visit Everything You Always Wanted To Know About China's Education System. Teachingtips.com did an article entitled, "25 Surprising Facts About China’s Education System." (h/t to China Economics Blog) And though I am not prepared to say all 25 will surprise you, certainly most of them are at least... [[ This is a conte...
15 Sep 09 visit The FCPA And China. Do I Need To Get All Loud On You? I spent my high school junior year living in Istanbul, where my father was teaching while on sabbatical. There was one other American family in our Bebek apartment building: the Richards. Adelle Richards was the matriarch of... [[ This is a content...
14 Sep 09 visit "Socialized" Medicine In China And The US. What's That You Say, Mrs. Robinson? Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics.From the movie, The Graduate. "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our... [[ This is a content...
13 Sep 09 visit Topless Women, Rule Of Law, And Perceptions Of China. Matt Schivenza's always interesting blog has a new post up on nudity (well, sorta) in China, entitled, "Foreign Woman Removes Top At Beach in Qingdao, Causes Major Disturbance." The post tracks exactly what I was talking about this morning with a client....
12 Sep 09 visit Love In China. Actions Speak Instead Of Words. I just love this post, "Saying “I love you” with a toilet: of indirect displays of love in Chinese families," over at the Speaking of China blog. I love it because it perfectly illustrates how Chinese express an emotion (in... [[ This is a con...
10 Sep 09 visit Protecting Your IP In China -- The Basics. Stan Abrams over at China Hearsay is (or will be?) speaking on China intellectual property at an IP conference for SMEs in the Netherlands and he has mapped out on his blog what he is going to say. And here it is: 1.... [[ This is a content summary only....
10 Sep 09 visit Our First China Hummer Post. Our Silence Said It All. Virtually every week, somebody emails or calls me with the perfect (usually distressed) United States company for me to pitch to "all the people" I know in China. I have even gotten calls from government agencies asking me... [[ This is a content summary...
09 Sep 09 visit How China's Birthday And Shanghai's Expo Are Good For The Legal Business. I have to admit one of my favorite things is forming a China WFOE for foreign companies. I love them because co-blogger Steve Dickinson and our Chinese affiliated lawyers do all the work. I also love them because it is the... [[ This is a content summary...
08 Sep 09 visit China Sex, Mistresses, And Improper Payments, And What They Mean For Your China Business Litigation. Part II, The Contracts Do Matter Edition. Yesterday, I wrote a post on how important contracts are in China. The post was about a China Daily article on what has been described as China's first foreign nail house. The China Daily article included an interview with... [[ This is a content summary...
08 Sep 09 visit Will Obama Soon Be Kicking China Tires? President Obama faces a September 17th deadline to determine whether to go along with the International Trade Commission’s recommendation to impose high tariffs on low end Chinese tires. The US has the authority to impose... [[ This is a content summa...
07 Sep 09 visit China's First Foreign Nail House. Dude, Where's Your Contract? Lara Farrar and Xie Yu wrote an excellent article for the China Daily and AsiaOne on the recent controversy swirling around what is being called China's first foreign nail house case. The article is entitled, "1st foreigner... [[ This is a content...
07 Sep 09 visit The End Of The Recession? The View From Qingdao. Just received this email from co-blogger Steve Dickinson: I do my martial arts workout three mornings a week at the beach here in Qingdao. We have a great view of the entrance to the Qingdao port complex. Vessels intending... [[ This is a content summary...
06 Sep 09 visit China Has 703 Million Cell Phone Users. The Middle Class Is Rising. 703 million. (h/t Shanghaiist) Think about that for just a minute. That's about 2.5 times the population of the United States. More than three years ago (gosh, have we really been here that long??!!) I did a post on how... [[ This is a content summary...
03 Sep 09 visit China Law On Term Employment Contracts. One of our clients is coming to the end of its contract term with the bulk of its China employees. They wrote Steve asking him some questions regarding fixed term employment contracts under Chinese law. Steve's reply is a... [[ This is a content summary...
03 Sep 09 visit On The Demise Of China Manufacturing.....Kidding! BBC radio news did an interview last night with the owner of a company out of Houston, Texas, who had moved his manufacturing from China back to the United States. Unfortunately, I tuned in way too late to hear the whole... [[ This is a content summary...

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