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20 Nov 09 visit Will China Create The Next Silicon Valley? Whenever I get together with tech people who have been doing business with China for a few months, they seem to throw out expressions about China like "next Silicon Valley" or "going to be even bigger than Silicon Valley."... [[ This is a content summary...
20 Nov 09 visit China Negotiating Strategy. An Expert's Perspective. Andrew Hupert over at the Chinese Negotiation blog did an interesting and helpful post on negotiating strategy in China in a post entitled, US-China Variation of Prisoners Dilemma -- The Factory Game. In his post, Andrew,... [[ This is a content summary...
19 Nov 09 visit China's Microsoft Case. Everyone Just Move Along. I have a new rule. When I get three or more emails on a topic, and at least one of them says something like the following: "Dan, I am sure you are familiar with the recent Microsoft case and already planning to blog on it,... [[ This is a content summary...
19 Nov 09 visit Beware The Potemkin Chinese Company. Anyone and everyone who does business in or with China needs to read these two posts at The Black China Hand. "If I Build a Potemkin Village Will They Come?" and "How to Start a Chinese Company." The first post is about a... [[ This is a content summary...
19 Nov 09 visit The Talent Difference Between China's Tier 1 And Tier 2 Cities. Let's Get All Snobby About It. China Vortex did an intriguing post a couple of months ago on why China's Tier 2 cities will always be second tier (and I just found this completed but unpublished post today). The post is entitled, "China’s Biggest... [[ This is a content summary onl...
18 Nov 09 visit Manufacturing Product In China. Trust Yet Verify. In going through old emails this weekend, I came across a rather old email from a long time client/friend, entitled, "You should write about these idiots." I swear this is his language not mine. Anyway, attached was a link... [[ This is a content summary...
18 Nov 09 visit Understanding Labor And Employment Law In China. I am three-quarters of the way through the book, Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China, by Ronald C. Brown. Brown is a Professor of Law and the Chair of the Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Committee at University of... [[ This is a content summary...
18 Nov 09 visit China's Corruption Ranking Is Middle Of The Pack. Again. Transparency International just came out with its 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index. I love these things and I think this one, in particular, tends to be quite accurate. Now I am not saying any of these surveys are... [[ This is a content summary only....
17 Nov 09 visit China Food And Drug Outsourcing Gets Criminal. Fast. My law firm has in the last few months been called in a couple of times to assist other law firms in defending federal criminal actions here in the United States arising from Chinese imports. These two cases are still very... [[ This is a content summary...
16 Nov 09 visit China, Glocalization, And The Specter Of Product Liability And More. China Observer just did a fascinating post, entitled, "Reverse Innovation: Made in China - For China," on foreign companies innovating for China. The post is written entirely from a business perspective and its gist is that... [[ This is a content...
16 Nov 09 visit The Nine Nations Of China. Help Me Out Here. Atlantic Magazine has a short article up, entitled, "The Nine Nations of China." It is written by Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University, and it basically consists of an interactive map that seeks to make the... [[ This is a content summary...
15 Nov 09 visit How To Succeed In China: Bribe Everyone, Pay No Taxes And Break The Law. I have been in a long running discussion with an international lawyer (with whom I have worked for nearly a decade and who I greatly respect) in an emerging market country who believes American companies are too... [[ This is a content summary only....
14 Nov 09 visit Using Web Based Evidence In China Courts....And Then Some. China Law Insight blog has a fascinating post (for we nerd lawyers anyway), entitled, PRC Web Page Notarization for Evidence, on what it takes to get a webpage into evidence in a Chinese court. The post starts out noting how... [[ This is a content...
14 Nov 09 visit China Face. China Heart. Gaming And Internet Businesses Writ Large. A China gaming client recently sent me the link to a very interesting and informative post on China Vortex, entitled, "Chinese Face, Chinese Heart," on Western companies seeking to break into China's internet and/or gaming... [[ This is a content summary...
13 Nov 09 visit China Domain Name Scams. Just Move Along.... If your company has done anything in China (even just sending someone there to meet with a supplier), you have probably received a somewhat official email offering, at a steep price, to "help" you stop someone from taking... [[ This is a content summary...
12 Nov 09 visit China Government Procurement: Getting All Clean On Us Now Paul French has written an interesting article for Ethical Corporation magazine, entitled, "Bye-bye backhanders." (h/t China Herald) The article is subtitled, "China’s initiative on removing corruption in tendering for... [[ This is a content summa...
12 Nov 09 visit Big Foreign Private Equity Performing Badly In China. Maybe In The Short Term. I do not have any first hand knowledge to support the title. I am basing it on a post I just read, (and on related past experience) entitled, "Private Equity in China: Blackstone & Others May Grab the Money But Miss the Best... [[ This is a content...
12 Nov 09 visit The Hardest Hardship Posts: China Cities Performing Badly. A reader just sent me an email link to a fairly old (March, 2009) Business Week article pointing out how difficult Chinese cities are in which to work and live. The article is fascinating, but it definitely left me wondering... [[ This is a content...
12 Nov 09 visit ISP Liability for Infringing Content: Blogger Beware Chinese ISPs are often criticized for removing content from their sites that anyone suggests may be defamatory or violate some other party's intellectual property rights. This criticism is not really justified because... [[ This is a content summary...
11 Nov 09 visit Forget The Discussion Draft, China's Tort Law Is Already Here. Earlier this month, China's National People's Congress released a discussion draft for a "new" Tort Code. The Draft Tort Code contains little that is new and even less that is interesting. China already has a very complete... [[ This is a content summary...
11 Nov 09 visit Where's China? How 'Bout Estonia, Benin And Belize? I know I ran this a few years ago, but you would be surprised how often people email asking where it is on our site. Rather than having to keep answering those emails, I decided I would run it again. The it is a country... [[ This is a content summary...
10 Nov 09 visit Chinese Employment: Confidentiality Agreements And Noncompetes. I received the following email (modified slightly to protect anonymity): Steve, I wanted to pass some information to you, which you might want to use on your blog, but please keep my name and my company name out of it. We... [[ This is a content summary...
10 Nov 09 visit Quality Control For Your China Products It has been awhile since we have written on China product quality issues. As regular readers of this blog know, we are of the view that companies outsourcing to China must focus on 1) choosing the right partner, 2) using a... [[ This is a content summary...
09 Nov 09 visit Govenment Jurisdiction in China. Too Many Cooks.... The Chinese government is dealing with many significant issues relating to the economy and to the climate. The two that concern our clients are food safety and energy conservation. The fact that several different Chinese government departments often have...
09 Nov 09 visit Doing Business In China. The Regulatory Song Remains the Same. The World Bank recently came out with its yearly report ranking countries on the ease of doing business within them, based mostly on their business regulations The news on China is that there was really no news at all. China did move down from 86 out of...
09 Nov 09 visit China Overseas: Hurting The Feelings Of The Chinese People The other day I went to lunch with two international lawyers from Spain who were passing through town. They talked a lot about their work in Angola and in Mozambique and we talked a lot about our work in China and the rest... [[ This is a content summary...
09 Nov 09 visit Jason Patent Blog: China's Business Culture I recently became a regular reader of the Jason Patent blog. Patent is a PhD linguist with a ton of teaching and writing experience regarding Chinese culture. Patent now offers coaching and consulting services, mostly... [[ This is a content summary...
08 Nov 09 visit Where To Locate Your China Business. A portion of a Silk Road International post got me to thinking of one of my favorite China topics: where should you locate your business. David Dayton's Silk Road post is of no help at all if you are looking for a one size... [[ This is a content summary...
07 Nov 09 visit China Blogs: That's The way, Uh-Huh Uh-Huh, We Like It, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh. Part III. About two months 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. About a month ago, I did part II of this series. This is the third of this... [[ This is a content summary...
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...

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