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24 Jul 08
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Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics. By Dan Harris Okay, so I didn't really write this, but I have thought this so many times in my head that somehow my thoughts must have transferred nearly 1 to 1 to this post. The post is "Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics" and... |
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24 Jul 08
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Beijing Subway 101 Leave it to CNReviews to come out with a clearly written post on how to get around Beijing using Beijing's subway. The post is entitled, "Beijing Subway Guide: of Tickets and Faregates," and it does an excellent job setting out the dos and don'ts. If I... |
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24 Jul 08
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The Chinese Like Us. They Really Really Like Us. There's a great scene in the movie Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carey is seeking a date with Lauren Holley: Carey: "What are my chances [of a date with you]?" Holley: "Not good." Carey: "You mean not good like one out of a hundred?" Holley: "I'd say more... |
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24 Jul 08
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China's New Business Income Tax -- Online Seminar, August 7, 2008 Strafford Publications, which usually gets pretty good people for its online law seminars, is putting on one entitled, "China's New Business Income Tax: Shielding Non-China Income From the Expansive Enterprise Income Tax." (h/t to AsiaBizBlog) The seminar... |
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23 Jul 08
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Clean Energy Guide To China The US Department of Commerce just came out with a 113 page online pdf report entitled, "Clean Energy, An Exporter's Guide to China. " (h/t to AmCham-China Daily) The Department of Commerce summarizes its report as follows: Energy demand in China is... |
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22 Jul 08
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How Business In China Gets Done. For those who have never conducted business with China, this post will sound very strange, perhaps even unbelievable. For those who have conducted business with China, this post likely induce feelings of déjà vu. Either way, it is well worth a re... |
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21 Jul 08
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Five Deserted Island China Blogs -- Just The Essentials, Ma'am. Maybe I have been watching too much Lost (all that remains is the Season 4 finale), but in response to a barrage of demand (one email suggestion around a year ago), I have decided it is time I come out with my list of the five China blogs I would want to... |
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21 Jul 08
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China's Olympics. Security Trumps Fun. Why Oh Why? Excellent Washington Post article on how China's increased security (including executions) may end up taking the "fun" out of the Olympics. The article is entitled, "Across China, Security Instead Of Celebration: Police Crack Down on 'Hostile Forces,'... |
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19 Jul 08
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The People's Republic Of Capitalism. But I Digress. Excellent post over at the inside-out China blog on Ted Koppel's recently completed Discovery Channel show, "The People's Republic of Capitalism." The post really shines in analyzing the views of some of the Chinese nationals who spoke during the series... |
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18 Jul 08
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The Rules Every Foreigner Entering, Exiting Or Staying In China Must Know. HR in China has come out with an English language translation of the "Legal Guidelines For Foreigners Entering, Exiting, and Staying in China During the Olympics." and my firm's China based staff has, after a five minute review, decreed it "fairly... |
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18 Jul 08
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Promising China Blog: Mei-Zhong Guan-Xi Just came across a very interesting new blog, entitled, Mei-Zhong Guan-Xi (h/t to Danwei), which accurately describes itself as follows: Analysis and translations published by an American living in Shanghai. The goal of this site is twofold. First,... |
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16 Jul 08
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F-ck China Culture Lessons. Give Me Anthony Bourdain With No Reservations. Tips to Build and Manage a Guanxi Network The best way to strengthen a guanxi network is to stay connected. Send small gifts or ask for small favors to keep a relationship active. Host an occasional get-together. Remember the major Chinese holidays and... |
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15 Jul 08
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Take That Funky Passport With You White Boy One of the things I always want to know about every foreign country to which I travel is whether I should keep my passport on my person at all times. Until around six months ago, I would have said no need regarding China, unless you are travelling between... |
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15 Jul 08
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China Pre-Olympic Shutdowns. No Juice = No Product. An auto parts client called me today regarding a deal on which we are working, but quickly got off the line and did not call me back for another hour or so. He apologized and then explained. On Friday, "all" factories in Shandong province (China's second... |
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15 Jul 08
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You Saw Me Do What? Privacy In China. Two interesting articles just out on privacy in China. One, a Seoul Times article written by US trained attorney, Yuho Kim, entitled, "Data Security, Privacy in Asia," nicely compares the privacy laws of Korea, China, and Japan. The other, a Forbes... |
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15 Jul 08
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China Corruption By The Numbers. With Your Help, Coming Soon To An Internet Near You. Received an email the other day from TRACE International asking us to plug their excellent BRIBEline website that seeks to document global corruption. The website records anonymous reporting of bribe demands: Bribeline is a secure, multi-lingual website... |
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15 Jul 08
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Staying With Friends In China: You Have 24 Hours Or You Are On The Lam. AmCham-China Daily (whom I am happy to plug because they gave me two pretty cool t-shirts) just did a post, not so grippingly entitled, "Advisory to foreign employees from chamber member company." The advisory is on the need for foreigners to register... |
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07 Jul 08
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How To Get From Airport To Town In Beijing There are two kinds of people. Those who enjoy figuring out exactly how to get from one place to another and those who just want to know how best to get from one place to the other. David Feng of CNReviews is of the far rarer first category and he just... |
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07 Jul 08
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Who Is Chinese? Who Is Not? Fascinating discussion over at Blogging for China on what makes one Chinese. Post is entitled, "What Does it Mean to be Chinese," and it and its 161+ comments, unflinchingly address what is required to be Chinese.... |
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06 Jul 08
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China: The People's Republic Of Capitalism Beginning Wednesday, July 9, and for four straight nights, the Discovery Channel will be running Ted Koppel's "People's Republic of Capitalism." The series will focus on China's economic growth and what this means for the United States. Much of the... |
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06 Jul 08
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The CCP And China's Courts. The World Is Getting Darker. Dr. Willy Lam of the Jamestown Foundation just came out with an extremely incisive and disconcerting article on the increasing politicization of China's courts. The article is entitled, "The CCP Strengthens Control over the Judiciary," and to grossly... |
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05 Jul 08
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Putting The China Labor Law Cart Before The Horse Every month or so, a client comes to me in a panic with a "brilliant" idea for avoiding some short term problem. Examples abound: 1. One company with revenues of about $200 million a year was being sued for around $2 million by a hated competitor. The... |
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05 Jul 08
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China Versus India Versus Vietnam At A Gut Level Interesting post on This is China, entitled, "My Beer With Andre," documenting a conversation with a Fortune 500 CEO who "had just made the rounds through" China, Vietnam and India "to gain impressions of the investment environments of the countries." As... |
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03 Jul 08
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How To Get What You Want From The Chinese Government, Part II. Make It Win-Win. In The Subtle Art of Lobbying the Chinese Government , Alistair Nicholas of Off The Record posted on our post on how to lobby the Chinese government. Nicholas noted something very important I left out in my post. Our post focused on who to lobby and the... |
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02 Jul 08
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Foreign Businesses In China And Illegality Per Se When I would judge mock trials at the University of Washington Law School. One of the things on which I always criticized the lawyers-to-be was for talking like a lawyer. I would ask if they described a guy getting out of a car as "a person descending... |
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02 Jul 08
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How To Get What You Want From The Chinese Government Well, within limits. Bizcult has an interesting post up on the basics of lobbying the Chinese government. The post is entitled, "How to Lobby the Chinese Government," and it is based on Scott Kennedy's book The Business of Lobbying in China. According to... |
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01 Jul 08
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Nuclear Power In China Or "nucular," as President Bush calls it. China Comment (an excellent, relatively new blog) did a pretty amazing post, entitled, "China's Nuclear Power," detailing (and that is the right word) China's nuclear power industry. If you want to know about... |
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01 Jul 08
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Piss Off China To Please Europe Blogging for China asks a great question in its post, "Is Fiat Too Clever?" The question posed is whether Fiat used Richard Gere (of acting and T1b*t fame) in its ad to garner publicity and EU love? All seems very plausible to me, except might not Fiat's... |
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01 Jul 08
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China Real Estate. Does What Goes Around Come Around? When China's real estate market started heating up a few years ago, Beijing tightened the rules for foreigners buying property. I just read an interesting and quite convincing article, entitled, "Shrinking House Sales and the Fear of 'Deep Adjustment'... |
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01 Jul 08
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China's Service Sector Will Reign, Part XVII -- Pets, I Say. "Dealing with the animals was always fun, but I could no longer stand dealing with their owners." --- Explanation for retiring given to me by a retired veterinarian I know Back when we first started this blog nearly three years ago, I felt somewhat like... |
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01 Jul 08
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On Getting Your China Cargo/Freight/Product DHL just came out with its 4th (and probably most important) volume in its "Olympics Memo And Contingency Plan." (h/t to All Roads Lead to China). This memo does an absolutely amazing job of listing out the rules and changes applicable to cargo and... |
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01 Jul 08
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China Banking: I Have Two Words For You. A year or so ago, I was talking with a good friend of mine who has a fairly high level position with one of the big American banks that has spent huge money buying into Chinese banks. I was saying I could not understand why American banks were so... |
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01 Jul 08
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Foreign Diplomacy, Beijing In 1974, China Business, Respek, And My Friend George H.W. Bush. It's Just Life. Tom Plate wrote an interesting column the other day, entitled, "George I: American internationalist," regarding George Bush's (the elder) stint in China as Chief US representative to Beijing. The column actually focuses on the book "The China Diary of... |
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01 Jul 08
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China's New Labor Law: Results Still To Be Determined Yale Online just came out with a very thorough and objective article on China's new labor law. The article, entitled, "An Uncertain Victory for China’s Workers," is written by Lyle Morris, of China Economist Magazine. This article gives sets forth a... |
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23 Jun 08
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China To Prices. "Get Real." For years, whenever someone in the United States would complain about how China was "taking our jobs," I would mention China was also subsidizing our products. That is changing rapidly. In, "Paying the China Price, The Full Price," All Roads Lead to China... |
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23 Jun 08
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Skateboarding With Chinese Characteristics Very interesting and insightful article on skateboarding in China, dude. The article is written by college junior, Jonathan Chow, and is entitled, "Skateboarding With Chinese Characteristics." Its money quote and why the article itself is important is as... |
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23 Jun 08
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Is China Going Green, Part XV -- Environmental Liability Clarified: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Very important article in today's China Daily, entitled, "Government targets land pollution to ensure food security." Far more important than the reason for this targeting is the who and what of the targeting. China's Ministry of Environmental Protection... |
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20 Jun 08
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Suing For Access To China Government Information The Chinese Law Prof blog has a fascinating (at least for legal geeks) post on the first Beijing lawsuit to access government information under the Regulations on Open Government Information which came into effect on May 1. Such a case would have been... |
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19 Jun 08
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China Investigating Microsoft For Antitrust Violations. We Don't Think So. By Steve Dickinson Both the English and the Chinese web have been rife with news of a Chinese government antitrust investigation of Microsoft's pricing of its software products. The reports initially stated the PRC State IP Office was investigating... |
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18 Jun 08
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So You Want To Save A Yuan By Moving Your China Operations To __________. Excellent article by David Dayton up on Smart China Sourcing, entitled, "China prices: Moving not necessarily a solution to rising prices." (h/t to BizCult) The article very nicely sets out some of the key things (beyond labor and real estate costs) to... |
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18 Jun 08
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Global (Including China) Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies Webinar. June 19. Managing Intellectual Property Magazine will, on June 19 at noon Eastern time (US) be putting on a Free Webinar on Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies, entitled “Global Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies: Tackling Trans-shipment Issues Using Customs and Oth... |
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17 Jun 08
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Good And Evil First They Came.... One of the things that always drives me nuts is when I write something critical of China and a reader points out a similar example in the United States. Fine. It drives me even nuttier when I write something critical of China and... |
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16 Jun 08
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How To Succeed In China Without Karaoke In "Singing a Different Song in China," the Off The Record blog convincingly argues that karaoke is not necessary to succeed in business in China and tells us how to avoid karaoke without jeopardizing one's business. The post was written to counteract a... |
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15 Jun 08
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Update On China's Visa Situation Travelpod has the most comprehensive analysis of China's present visa situation I have seen (h/t to ImageThief). It explains the current situation with respect to all sorts of China visas. If you have any questions regarding what it takes these days to... |
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15 Jun 08
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Tax Benefits Under China???s New Corporate Income Tax Law: Much Unfinished Business By Steve Dickinson and Andrew Grieve Since enactment of China's new Corporate Income Tax (CIT) code at the first of this year, my firm has been working with a number of high-tech (mostly software, computer hardware, environmental technology, and medical... |
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14 Jun 08
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Marketing And Selling To Chinese Businesses Matthew Harrison of B2B International China has a nice post up on China Success Stories, entitled, "Marketing and Selling to Chinese Businesses." For me, the big takeaway (and surprise) was the importance of conferences and exhibitions. Now of course I... |
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14 Jun 08
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Take A Time Out On Foreign Publishing In China Nearly every month some non-Chinese company comes to my law firm seeking our help in navigating the legal issues involved in publishing some sort of magazine or website in China. Their initial questions nearly always focus on WFOEs versus Rep. Offices or... |
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13 Jun 08
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China: Take That Tourist Visa And Shove It As we have often written, China always used to be incredibly lax about people using tourist visas to work in China. I know someone who lived in China for fifteen (15) years on nothing but tourist visas. He never once had a problem. Nobody ever once asked... |
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13 Jun 08
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Danone/Wahaha -- China Business Lessons To Be Learned As regular readers know, China Law Blog loves the Danone-Wahaha dispute, having written the following posts on it: -- China's Joint Venture Jeopardy -- Danone v. Wahaha -- Which Of Us Is The Most China Rookie? -- Danone and China's Wahaha: A Lecture on... |
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13 Jun 08
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Chinese Real Property: To Buy Or Not To Buy, That Is The Question. BizCult blog has a rather rah-rah post on why we should all be buying residential property in Beijing, essentially right now. The post is entitled, "If Not Now, Buy Property Sometime Soon," and it is based on a talk by Feng Lun, of Beijing Vantone Real... |
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