China needs more coal. The United States has more coal than it needs. President Obama is vowing to double U.S. exports. Sounds like we have everything in place for increased coal shipments from the United States to China, right?
Maybe.
In an article entitled, “Coal Foes Play China Card: Critics of Export Terminal Warn of Environmental Harm Abroad [...]
I have been reading and enjoying the China Business Leadership Blog for the last few months and I wanted to bring it to our readers’ attention. The blog is authored by the SHI Group, whose slogan is “serving to make the strength of your company culture come to life in China.” I like the slogan [...]
Some interesting developments with China visas this last month.
First the good news. The Shanghai Exit-Entry Administration Bureau has launched an English-language website for visa renewals and I checked it out and it is not bad at all (h/t to Shanghaiist).
Now the bad news. I have received three rather troubling visa related calls in the last [...]
As regular readers of this blog know, we are not generally fans of China joint ventures. Our view is that if you as a foreign company are not required Chinese law to form a joint venture with a Chinese company in order to accomplish your China plans, you would in most cases (but not all) [...]
Excellent graph (and site) showing the hot (and cold) spots for labor unrest in China (h/t Shanghaiist). I studied the graph for quite a while trying to determine some lesson for where foreign businesses should locate in China, but have to admit I have no great pearls of wisdom on this point.
Guangdong seems to be [...]
Not quite sure why, but I have been writing a lot lately about the risks of operating a business in China. A few months ago, I did a post entitled China Is The Risk. I See Clouds and a few weeks ago I did a post entitled Secure And Insecure Countries. In Light Of Egypt. An Open Thread. Both [...]
A couple years ago, I went to China with my wife and youngest daughter. We landed at Pudong and were waiting for a cab. A well-dressed Chinese woman who was one or two people ahead of us in the taxi line came over to and asked us if we wanted to switch cabs with her.
At [...]
Danny Friedmann of IP Dragon wrote a great post entitled, “How to prevent and act upon intellectual property rights infringements in China” that very nicely (and succinctly) sets out exactly how to accomplish that.
Friedmann states that intellectual property infringement is prevalent in China “and a challenge for every company in every industry” but those companies that [...]
I have become a big fan of Muddy Waters Research. Muddy Waters is a micro company that focuses on debunking Chinese stocks, mostly for fraud. Muddy Waters is the brainchild of Carson Block, who describes himself as “an entrepreneur who’s practiced law and pioneered an industry in China. Our team members are likewise veterans of China’s [...]
I am always amazed and impressed and yet also somewhat skeptical of the courage of my firm’s clients. Right after the fall of communism in Russia, we represented a whole slew of companies going into Russia’s Far East, mostly in an effort to capture its natural resources of timber, fish and metals. I would ask [...]