Since 2007, the Experience Not Logic blog was a vital China law blog. Then, in late 2009, it went silent as its founder and driving force, Will Lewis, embarked on his LLM in Tax from NYU School of Law, where he focused on international transactional tax. Now that Will has graduated he is back to [...]
For many years now I have been a happy member of the excellent and venerable ChinaLaw ListServe. The ListServe is expertly run by Donald Clarke, a law professor at George Washington University and the force behind the seminal China Law Prof Blog.
The ListServ has been in existence since 2004 and it has nearly 1,400 subscribers, including [...]
Fairly regularly, we get an email from a foreigner living in China who wants to go into business in China with their girlfriend/fiancé/wife’s family (yes it is always a male). This person wants to know how they can do this and we tell them that there are really only two ways. One is [...]
Risk. Everyone in China is exposed to it. Some recognize it, and act on it, better than others
This was the topic of several conversations between myself and Neal Beatty (Regional Director, Global Client Services for Control Risks). In some ways it was a followup to the interview I did of Dane Chamorro, his colleague, but [...]
Over time, there are few things more important (and perhaps less appreciated) than a good old fashioned system that operates well. Systems are something that anyone in supply chain, economics, or general management can appreciate (when running well), and in China where everything is about large numbers, the need for processes [...]
Over the years, there have been more than a few articles on China’s interest, or lacking interest, in developing domestic innovation and IP in the commercial sector, and China’s use of soft power, or failing to use its soft power, to promote the best interests of the state. And while these issues are rarely [...]
So, the word is out. China is #2， Numero Dos， 第二 … and EVERYONE is talking about it. Some are even saying China will be King of the hill by 2020
Officially word came down with the Japanese Cabinet’s announced their economy put out 1.288 trillion USD, a few points below the 1.337 trillion China had [...]
If there was one group that was hit the hardest by the economic downturn was college graduates, and as I have managed to time both of my graduating dates in the middle of bad economic times, I can attest that it sucks to be looking at a bad job market 6 months away from graduation.
For [...]