Whatever the Chinese Communist Party waxworks expected after the Hong Kong handover, the massive July 1, 2003 protest against proposed “national security” legislation was surely a warning about the limits of Hongkongers’ tolerance of authoritarian rule. The proposed legislation was the Hong Kong government’s response to Article 23 of its Basic Law, which requires the
Last week, Fred Rocafort (one of our international trade lawyers), Dan Pak (a VP of Procurement at a large East Coast hospital chain) and I put on a 90+ minute webinar on navigating PPE purchases from China. Based on the feedback we have received and the fact that a number of webinar companies have asked
For the last week or so, our China lawyers have been inundated by requests from employers in China for help in dealing with the many employment law issues created by the coronavirus has created. Just yesterday, our lead China employment lawyer, Grace Yang, wrote about that in Coronavirus and What China Employers Should be Doing
The United States and China are scheduled to have a grand signing ceremony on January 15 for the “Phase One” deal that is supposed to solve the U.S.-China trade war. Though more than 200 guests have been invited to attend the ceremony, no one knows exactly what they will be signing because the text of
Three months ago, in Hong Kong for International Business, Stick a Fork in It, we predicted the slow demise of Hong Kong as an international business center. Many wrote us to say they agreed. Many wrote us to say they vehemently disagreed. Those who disagreed argued that we had underestimated the grit and the resilience
Desde el principio de las negociaciones comerciales entre Estados Unidos y China hemos sido inequívocamente negativos sobre la probabilidad de un acuerdo y nos hemos limitado a decir que las empresas extranjeras (especialmente las que venden sus productos a Estados Unidos) tienen que trabajar para reducir su huella en China. El microacuerdo de hoy entre Estados Unidos y China ha
Foreign companies doing business in China are abuzz with news and rumors regarding China’s plans to set up what will essentially be a social credit system for companies that do business in China. In China is building a ‘comprehensive system’ for tracking companies’ activities, CNBC does a great job explaining what this new system will
El 5 de mayo, el presidente Trump tuiteó que elevaría los aranceles al 25% sobre productos chinos por valor de 200.000 millones de dólares y que acabaría imponiendo esta misma tasa arancelaria a prácticamente todos los productos procedentes de China. Desde entonces, los medios de comunicación no se han puesto de acuerdo sobre quién pagará estos aranceles.
Ayer recibí un airado correo electrónico en respuesta a mi predicción de un descenso de los pedidos de fabricación a China. El correo me acusaba de "odiar a China" y de querer "impedir su pacífico" ascenso y de estar "celoso de su progreso". Todo esto porque últimamente hemos estado escribiendo cómo muchos de los clientes de nuestro bufete de abogados
I did an interview the other day with GlobalAutoIndustry.com, on China IP Challenges for Automotive Suppliers, dealing mostly with automotive high-tech, which in most respects is no different from high tech generally. The below is a transcript of that interview. For anyone who has been living in a cave, the auto industry has changed, is
