Whenever looking at the laws or actions of a another country, it is important to keep things in perspective. It just makes good sense to have some perspective on how things really are in your own country and in other countries, before expressing outrage at how things are in one particular country, as though [...]
A month or so ago, I did a post, entitled, “25+ China People You Should Follow On Twitter. Not One “China Expert” Among Them.” I did it in response to a client asking me for a list of China people he should be following and my post consisted of little more than me pulling [...]
ReadWriteWeb has an excellent piece on China’s social gaming market and participants. The post is entitled, “China’s Social Gaming Landscape: What’s Coming Next?” and its written by Joel Backaler of The China Observer. The post does a nice job answering the following questions:
– What makes a ‘winning’ Social Game in China?
– Which [...]
For days now, I have been planning to write a “moderate” post on the state of FDI in China. By moderate, I mean one between the “sky is falling down everyone flee now” lines being pitched by some (mostly those who are actually not involved in China) and those who are writing that everything [...]
– “94,000″ sue Danish cartoonist in a London court for a cartoon that offended
– Canada “clamps down on free speech,” forcing American author has to cancel her speech in Canada due to anticipated violence For more on Canada, check out “The creepy tyranny of Canada’s hate speech laws” (h/t EastSouthWestNorth)
– Turkey’s Prime Minister threatens to [...]
This post was written by Jon Zimmerman, a new attorney at my law firm. Jon may be new to our firm, but he certainly is not new to the world of Chinese or international law. Jon has been practicing international law for nearly 18 years and has been heavily involved in China law [...]
When I was in BigLaw back in the Midwest, one of my favorite activities was engaging in Britt Airways stories with other lawyers during long pauses in depositions or hearings. I usually reeled out two stories. The first was how I once had to go from Bloomington, Indiana, to Minneapolis, Minnesota and how my [...]
I will be appearing on CNBC’s Power Lunch today at approximately 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST and 1:00 am China time). I will be on to discuss the impact Google’s leaving China is likely to have on foreign businesses in and involved with China.
Please be sure to tune in.
UPDATE: [...]
China Real Time Report just put up an excellent post by Professor Stanley Lubman on the state of the environmental laws and enforcement in China. Entitled, “Strengthening Enforcement of China’s Environmental Protection Laws,” its first and last paragraphs nicely summarize the post itself:
In the face of ongoing serious damage to China’s environment caused by [...]
Sorry for the last minute notice on this one, but I wanted to encourage those in the Bay Area who might be interested to attend. The State Bar of California International Law Section is hosting “Careers in International Law” tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9, 2010) at 12:30 pm at the University of California, Berkeley School [...]