NOTE: This post is very much based on co-blogger Steve Dickinson’s recent article in China Economic Review, entitled, “A Civil Action.”
On July 1, 2010, China will be getting a new Tort Law. This law has been in in the works for nearly a decade and its arrival represents the completion of China’s civil [...]
Excellent post over at the China Tax Insight Blog, based largely on a couple of comments on this blog to which I had not yet gotten around to responding. The China Tax Insight post is entitled, “A Seeming Solution to the China PE problem” and it relates to businesses trying to avoid having to [...]
There has been a lot of press lately about shortages of Chinese workers. It is important to note that nearly all of those stories originate from and focus on Guangdong province. If China is the factory to the world, Guangdong is the factory to China. If you wanted to hit a massive [...]
Excellent blog post on the Harvard Business Review Blog regarding prices in China. The post is written by Max Magni and Yuval Atsmon of McKinsey & Company’s consumer practice in Greater China and Atsmon is an “associate principal” in the Shanghai office. The post is entitled, “China’s Reverse Price Wars,” and though it [...]
A China Daily article, entitled Foreign luxury retail brands fail quality control test: study, (h/t Quality Inspection Blog) nicely highlights what Westerners far too often fail to realize about China: it has laws. More specifically, it has import laws and quality control/consumer protection laws.
Now I know most (all?) of you are murmuring, “of course,” [...]
Plus8Star blog has an excellent post up on Beijing’s technology “scene.” The post is an interview consisting of the following questions (with answers):
1. What’s the funding scene like in China and where are some of the incubators and resources Chinese entrepreneurs can look to?
2. How did the technology scene in China emerge and who are [...]
With President Obama talking about doubling U.S. exports and with China’s economy booming, it seems appropriate to talk about what should go into a sales contract with China, when you, the foreign company, are the one doing the sale.
The big thing — almost, but not quite the only thing — in such a [...]
When I served on a China panel at Berkeley last month, I met Dan Maas, who asked me for my thoughts on what had been happening to the World of Warcraft online game in China. It took me about fifteen seconds to figure out Dan knew far more about what was happening on that front [...]
Ryan McLaughlin over at Lost Laowai (and the technical force behind this blog) just did a post, entitled, “World Expo Shanghai 2010 Pavilions – Some Favourites,” comparing various of the Shanghai Expo Pavilions.
Whether you agree or disagree with Ryan’s anything but wimpy assessments, his post certainly does make for an interesting read and [...]
Spoke with a China lawyer friend of mine today who told me his firm had not “done” a single China Rep Office for the last six months. Every time someone had contacted them with plans for a China Rep Office, it ended up as a WFOE. I told him the same thing had been [...]