China Sourcing Blog recently did a post, China Plant Tours: Why You Have to See for Yourself, [link no longere exists] calling for visiting the overseas plant from which you will buy your product, “before you place an order.” China Sourcing calls for this for the following reasons: 1. It makes sense to meet the
I am getting really tired of the media litany on how an economic downturn in China essentially guarantees political instability. I am getting tired of it because I disagree with it. I actually never thought of this until a few weeks ago when I was on a panel at the Kellogg School of Management’s “Greater
The internet is abuzz with news that Chris Devonshire-Ellis of China Briefing may have influenced movement in the Yuan-Dollar conversion rate by what is being described by Chinese governmental authorities as a “pure fabrication.” To summarize, China Briefing Magazine did a post claiming to have interviewed a Chinese governmental official who talked of the Yuan
Forbes Magazine has a new and interesting article out, entitled, U.S. Talks Up WTO Piracy Ruling, But It’s All Wind and subtitled, “Washington claims the trade body took its side in a suit against China, yet the decision will not halt intellectual property theft.” The article talks about how the United States government has been
You are a litigator preparing a case in the United States. Your case is now in the discovery phase and you want to depose a key witness who is located in the PRC. This witness is either unable or unwilling to come to the United States and so their deposition must be taken in China.
Most of you probably already know more about melamine than you ever expected. Melamine refers to both a chemical and to a resin produced from it. Human ingestion of melamine “may lead to reproductive damage, or bladder or kidney stones, which can lead to bladder cancer.” Unfortunately, its high nitrogen content allows it to mimic
I rarely have revelations, but after being knocked over the head countless times over the years, I finally got one regarding how Chinese businesspeople tend to view their businesses differently from how Western businesspeople tend to view theirs. The other day, a deal my law firm had been working on for a US company fell
When I first read this post over at the Josh in China blog, I smiled. But then I frowned. Okay, I didn’t really frown, but I’m going for literary effect here. The post is entitled, Interesting Cultural Differences, and it reflexively notes how the women at Chinese toll booths are uniformly “extremely good looking girls.”
I once ended up on the same Qingdao-Seoul-Seattle flight as a long-time client and friend of mine whose company, among other things, had been hugely successful in China in an industry where just about every other foreign company had failed. The long flights gave us a great opportunity to talk and we talked a lot
CLB’s own Steve Dickinson has just returned from the annual China Maritime Law Conference, made up mostly of Asian international maritime lawyers. This year’s conference was in Wuhan. Steve reports as follows after the first day: I just finished the morning session of the first day of the All China Maritime Law Conference being held
