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Americans, Australians, British and Canadians Are Being Singled Out in China and I’ve Got Proof

One of the things I’ve done since the inception of this blog is try to help young people in trouble in China. Mostly this has involved my telling thousands of English teachers NOT to cause a stink with their employers that have not paid them. I tell them I understand why they are angering at

How Not to Be in China

Chovanec nails it and his tweet instantly reminded me of something I read in a recent email from a China consultant I have known for years. His new email address was for a strange sounding company so I followed the URL from that address and discovered this China consultant now has two companies. One focuses

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Chinese Contracts Work, but You Can’t Make a Good Deal With a Bad Company

The title is stolen from the Warren Buffett line, “You can’t make a good deal with a bad guy, regardless of any piece of paper.” And it is so true. Our China lawyers are always telling our clients the following: 1. Legitimate Chinese companies do not want to get sued. In our experience, legitimate Chinese

How to Destroy Your Company By Piling on China Risks: But Wait, There’s More. . . .

Got an email the other day enclosing a link to a Globe and Mail article, Vancouver miner says China trying to steal Xinjiang gold mine, and stating the following: I literally chuckled when I read this. Only for the reason that it pretty much checked off every point you have warned about. They certainly would

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The U.S. Government Hates Companies That Do Business with China: Get Used to It

Got an email from an American client this morning asking me whether I was aware of how American companies that do “significant” business with China cannot receive Paycheck Protection Program (PPP2) loans. I replied that I was not, because my focus is not on domestic U.S. law or business. But then I started thinking more

Check Your China Registrations

I should have run this post earlier and talked about it as a New Year’s resolution, but it did not occur to me until I learned over the weekend that a Canadian company that thought it had a Chinese trademark didn’t really have that trademark at all. At least once a year, one of our

Forced Labor in China: More Import Bans, But Does It Matter?

On January 3, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a ban on cotton products and tomato products produced in Xinjiang, based on information “that reasonably indicates the use of detainee or prison labor and situations of forced labor.” This does not come as a surprise: We warned about such a ban on cotton in

The Nationalist Agenda Behind China Opening Up to Foreign Banks

China’s Nationalist Agenda Behind Its Opening Up to Foreign Banks

In a recent op-ed, I wrote how the controversy over Disney’s Mulan embodies some of the ethical dilemmas and pitfalls that face companies doing business in China. On one hand, to maintain their presence in China these companies must comply with the demands and expectations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the other hand,

China Contract Chops: Tencent vs. Lao Gan Ma and China Due Diligence

It is officially 2021, but don’t fool yourself that some things change just because the calendar does. At China Law Blog we often post about fraud or attempted fraud that takes place in China; companies doing business there, or with Chinese counter-parties, should consider due diligence an evergreen topic, the importance of which cannot be

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Americans, Australians, British and Canadians Are Being Singled Out in China and I’ve Got Proof

How Not to Be in China

Chinese Contracts Work, but You Can’t Make a Good Deal With a Bad Company

How to Destroy Your Company By Piling on China Risks: But Wait, There’s More. . . .

FREE Webinar TODAY: The Biden Administration on International Trade

The U.S. Government Hates Companies That Do Business with China: Get Used to It

Check Your China Registrations

Forced Labor in China: More Import Bans, But Does It Matter?

China’s Nationalist Agenda Behind Its Opening Up to Foreign Banks

China Contract Chops: Tencent vs. Lao Gan Ma and China Due Diligence

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Americans, Australians, British and Canadians Are Being Singled Out in China and I’ve Got Proof

How Not to Be in China

Chinese Contracts Work, but You Can’t Make a Good Deal With a Bad Company

How to Destroy Your Company By Piling on China Risks: But Wait, There’s More. . . .

FREE Webinar TODAY: The Biden Administration on International Trade

The U.S. Government Hates Companies That Do Business with China: Get Used to It

Check Your China Registrations

Forced Labor in China: More Import Bans, But Does It Matter?

China’s Nationalist Agenda Behind Its Opening Up to Foreign Banks

China Contract Chops: Tencent vs. Lao Gan Ma and China Due Diligence