In going through my hard copy of Asia Legal Business today, I came across an article I wrote a few months back. The article is called “A China That Can Say No,” and though it was written at the very beginning of the Google imbroglio, I think it holds up well. Its thesis [...]
Loved an article in this month’s Asia Law Business, entitled, “Boutique firms gain market from general practices.” The article is written by Rashida Yosufzai and I have multiple reasons for loving it. First, the headline alone is music to my ears as my firm is, as far as I know, the only United [...]
Will Moss over at ImageThief has a great post on the Google-China brouhaha, entitled, “A handy cheat sheet for interpreting the Google China story.” The post is allegedly a tongue-in-cheek cheat sheet of how Google’s leaving China is viewed/spun, depending on the perspective. But it actually is a great analysis of what is [...]
The International Law and Policy Blog is just out with a post that very nicely summarizes various positions on China’s currency. The post is entitled, “Summary of China Currency Views,” and it seeks to do the following:
I thought it might be interesting to gather up the various views that have been expressed on the China [...]
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 [...]