A few days ago, co-blogger Steve Dickinson did a post on China’s 12th Five Year Plan, entitled, “China’s 12th Five Year Plan: A Preliminary Look.” This is a follow-up post, reflecting an outline China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) just put up on its website. Steve has been focusing on the Five Year Plan both because [...]
Pretty much every week my law firm gets contacted by an American or European company with big plans for China. Almost invariably (and this is a good thing), this company has spent tens of thousands of dollars in researching China for their business and in travelling back and forth to China to scope things out. [...]
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson has been speaking of late at various embassies and chambers of commerce in Beijing regarding China’s Twelfth Five Year Plan. Steve will be speaking on this again at the Swedish Chamber in April. The following is the outline Steve has been using.
A major task for this year is the adoption of a [...]
Very interesting post today over at the All Roads Lead To China Blog, entitled, In Defense of the China Consultant. It caught my eye because it starts out saying that it was inspired by a recent post on here, “China as Currency Manipulator. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? According to All Roads, this post, [...]
On June 4, 2009, I wrote a post bemoaning how the media always focuses on how China treats its citizens, but ignores far more brutal countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Yemen (among others). I entitled the post, “I’m Sorry, But US Hypocrisy On Human Rights Is Continuing Apace Under Obama. China Is Exhibit A” [...]
Excellent article in Asian Lawyer Magazine by Fangda lawyer, Gordon Gao. The article is entitled, “Dangerous Myths About Litigating in China.“
The article puts forth the following propositions:
1. Big Western companies often do not know how to litigate in China. They think the way to litigate in China is by having their BigLaw Western firm run [...]
Bill Bishop, a China Internet guru, recently did a post on his DigiCha blog, entitled, “China’s Internet: The Invisible Birdcage.” Not sure I like the title, but I am sure that I like the post itself as it does a great job explaining China’s Internet and how different it is from most Western countries.
Because my [...]
My friend Josh Gartner recently came out with a new podcast site, China Policy Pod. Josh describes his site as “a podcast covering current business and policy topics affecting China.” Though we virtually never add a blog to our blogroll unless it has been around for at least 3-4 months, I just added it because [...]
The other day we did a post, entitled, “An Amazingly Good (And Free!) Intro to China,” on The China-Britain Business Council’s recently published China Business Guide. One of our readers, Juha Lassila, left a comment extolling the virtues of HSBC’s new book, entitled, “Inside the Growth Engine: A guide to China’s regions, provinces and cities.“
This guide is [...]
By Steve Dickinson
The 19th Session of the 11th National People’s Congress last week revised the criminal code to provide that it is a crime for a company to intentionally withhold the wages of employees. A company that does this is subject to criminal fines and the responsible individuals are subject to imprisonment for up to [...]