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Goodbye China. Good Morning Vietnam. I Don't Think So.

One of the things we keep hearing is that small and medium sized manufacturing companies that manufacture in or outsource to China will soon be leaving China, mostly for Vietnam. China's increasing enforcement of its environmental and labor laws, coupled... ...full story at China Law Blog

from China Law Blog on Sat, Oct 20 2007

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01 Jan 08 visit Old Vietnam/ China song: China and Vietnam, we are connected  »  YouTube videoAn old propaganda Vietanmnese/Chinese song in 1960s and early 1970s. At that time, China was backing North Vietnam army in the war against American. This song was working as a propoganda song to praise the friendship between China and Vietnam. A brief...
27 Mar 08 visit China Manufacturing Moving To Madagascar  »  China Law Blog Earlier today, I posted on how China is still the place to manufacture all but the lowest end products. That post is entitled, "Goodbye China. Good Morning Vietnam. I Don't Think So, Part II." As is par for the course on this blog, I received a number of...
06 Feb 08 visit Is China Going Green, Part XIII -- Clean Up Or Close Up. Well Sort Of.  »  China Law Blog Just came across a very interesting and informative article in the China Business Review (a really good publication put out by the US-China Business Council) that nicely sets out China's environmental laws, China's increasing enforcement of those laws,...
27 Mar 08 visit Goodbye China. Good Morning Vietnam. I Don't Think So, Part II  »  China Law Blog Experience Not Logic has a nice post, entitled, "China's Manufacturing Competitiveness Is at Risk": Sort Of," on the recently published Booz Allen/AmCham Manufacturing Competitiveness report, somewhat wrongly titled, "New Challenges for Foreign Producers:...
20 Oct 08 visit Vietnam Is The Next China, Part II. Only If You Completely Ignore Political Stability.  »  China Law Blog Long-time client, a manufacturer of small steel products, has for months been "threatening" to move his factory to Vietnam, either to replace an existing factory in China or as an adjunct. Company was unhappy with China's increasing taxes and labor rates....
21 Sep 07 visit China's Law Enforcement Rising  »  China Law Blog One of the things I keep hearing while here in China is increased monitoring of laws by Chinese authorities. I am hearing this both from those who are happy about this change and those who are unhappy. One of our clients complained how a bank yesterday...

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