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China Hearsay

Commentary and analysis of law and business in China.
By Stan Abrams

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Last Entry: May 03, 2010 at 11:04:24

Geithner?s Dysfunctional Relationship With China

Posted on March 26, 2009
The other day I wrote about a new diplomatic initiative being tossed about by China and the U.S. that allegedly will replace the Strategic Economic Dialogue. I mentioned at that time that this might not be such a bad idea, seeing as how the SED on the U...

China to Extend System of Special IPR Courts

Posted on March 26, 2009
Sounds good to me: On March 25, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued the “Third Five-Year Reform Outline of People’s Court (2009-2013)”, which proposes that municipalities and medium-sized cities with large amount of IPR cases shall explore the unified setting of comprehensive IPR tribunals...

Youtube Hyperbole

Posted on March 26, 2009
Quick post on Youtube’s being blocked in China. Yes, it’s happening. No, we don’t like it. But a couple of comments: 1. Anyone who is shocked or surprised is just making themselves look stupid. Stop it. 2. Let’s put this into perspective...

China Federalism in Action

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Fall semester is approaching fast, and I need to start updating my FDI and IP lectures. I’ve been looking for some good examples of how Chinese federalism works, particularly instances of disagreement over policy authority between State and local governments...

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Arrests (Finally) Announced for CCTV Fire

Posted on March 25, 2009
Surprised it took so long. Looks like they are spreading the blame around, too. From Xinhua (this will be in all the major papers): Police have arrested 12 people, allegedly involved in causing an accidental fire at China Central Television’s (CCTV) new building in February, a court official told Xinhua on Wednesday...

China to Liberalize Film Import Regime?

Posted on March 25, 2009
Interesting news out of Filmart in Hong Kong (h/t Hollywood Reporter): Asian film industry executives and media policymakers from Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and Macau will gather Monday to unveil a proposal to reform China’s strict film import and export rules and increase the outflow of Chinese cultural products to markets overseas...

What I Learned At School Today

Posted on March 25, 2009
Well, yesterday, and not exactly at school, but it is the most interesting thing I learned over the past 36 hours, thanks to the learned Elaine Chow at Shanghaiist (click on the link to see the appropriate and entertaining (if you’re into that sort of thing) Japanese anime-ish artwork): Everyone in China probably knows about the [...

Matt Drudge Is An Idiot ? Reserve Currency Edition

Posted on March 24, 2009
Comments by PBOC governor Zhou Xiaochuan have gotten a lot of press over the past couple of days. China is not happy that they are stuck holding a lot of dollars, and frustrated that there continues to be no alternative. That’s life. The dollar continues to be the world’s reserve currency, and that ain’t changing anytime [...

Names Are Important

Posted on March 24, 2009
Shanghai-based peer-to-peer streaming media provider PPStream has released a webgame channel at g.pps.tv. I saw this on JLM, so I assume that this is a real company. On the other hand, the name is something I would expect Bart Simpson to make up for a prank phone call...

China Data Privacy Update

Posted on March 24, 2009
About a week ago, I wrote about the need for a national data privacy law in China in light of changes to the Criminal Law with respect to government disclosure of private data. As a follow-up, I would recommend reading an excellent article out in the China Economic Review on the subject, which goes into more [...

Another US-China Diplomatic Layer - Part II

Posted on March 24, 2009
I wrote about the possibility of yet another diplomatic platform for bilateral talks between China and the U.S. in February — see that post here. Looks like they are definitely putting something together and will announce it soon (a heads-up from the Washington Post): China and the United States have agreed in principle on the form [...

Thumbs Up For PLA?s PR Initiative

Posted on March 23, 2009
I’m going to go out on a limb on this one, but hear me out. The People’s Liberation Army has certainly been on the receiving end of some bad press in the West since 1949. Probably the Korean War had something to do with it, and since then, it’s been all downhill...

Breaking China News: Government Stats Show That Government Policy Is Working

Posted on March 23, 2009
I know, I was also shocked at this Xinhua article: The number of Chinese online game players under the age of 18 has declined to 15 percent of total respondents in 2008 — a 7 percent drop from the 2007’s figure of 183 million — according to a nationwide survey by the China [...

Trade Protectionism Du Jour

Posted on March 23, 2009
Not sure how long this is going to go on, but it appears as though the strategy of most countries over the next couple of years is to publicly decry protectionism and talk up free trade, and at the same time vehemently defend its own protectionist policies...

Protectionism Watch

Posted on March 22, 2009
Another country not being protectionist (h/t Americablog): France was embroiled in a protectionism row yesterday after the government announced that the assembly of some Renault cars would be shifted from Slovenia to the Paris area, creating 400 new jobs...

CSIS Report on U.S.-China Relations Focuses on Dialogue and Multiple Contacts

Posted on March 20, 2009
I’m 3-for-3 on U.S.-China relations posts today, including this one. The report in question is entitled Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations and was substantially drafted by folks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This is formally a commission report, co-chaired by former U...

Looks Like U.S. Will Get Its First ABC Commerce Secretary

Posted on March 20, 2009
From the Associated Press: The Senate Commerce Committee has approved President Barack Obama’s nominee for commerce secretary. Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke won unanimous approval from the Commerce panel Thursday. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va...

Should the California Legislature Develops Its Own China Policy?

Posted on March 20, 2009
Of course not. Unfortunately, some folks with too much time on their hands would like California lawmakers to waste some time on issues that don’t concern them. Longtime readers of this blog already know that I am supremely apathetic when it comes to certain China-related “causes,” particularly those that are championed by Hollywood types that have [...

Comments on the Coke-Huiyuan Deal

Posted on March 19, 2009
This is definitely the story of the day. The MOC rejected Coke’s bid to take over domestic juice company Hui Yuan. The deal was nixed because of competition concerns, with the MOC subjecting the deal to scrutiny under the still fairly new review process formulated under the Anti-monopoly Law...

Chinese Real Estate Tours to the U.S. ? enough already

Posted on March 19, 2009
OK, these stories about hordes of Chinese folks traveling to the U.S. on house-buying sprees are starting to annoy me. Here’s the latest in Shanghai Daily: Yin Guohua, a 45-year-old lawyer in Beijing, just completed a 10-day, five-city tour of the United States that didn’t include the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge or any [...

World Bank Report Calls Out Protectionists

Posted on March 18, 2009
Just downloaded this report from the WB (the World Bank, not Warner Bros). If there is anything particularly fun in there, I’ll post later. I’m looking for clear examples of protectionism by nations that have recently preached free trade. I wonder if the U...

Coca-Cola?s Huiyuan Deal Goes Bust?

Posted on March 18, 2009
Just saw this in Shanghai Daily, I assume nothing has been corroborated yet: FLASH: CHINA’S MINISTRY OF COMMERCE BLOCKS COCA-COLA’S BID FOR HUIYUAN JUICE I guess the promise to spend a couple billion dollars on China FDI didn’t do the trick...

Avast Ye Pirates, IP and Otherwise

Posted on March 18, 2009
Wired has an excellent, fun little article about techniques used to foil modern piracy. What kind of pirates? Both the ones stealing copyrighted works and those stealing seaborne cargo. This is useful, since I’m getting quite tired of seeing all those “pirate” headlines, hoping to find a useful IP story to blog about, only to find [...

Holy Crap, Look What Scientists Found In The Gobi Desert

Posted on March 17, 2009
I don’t usually write about biology and paleontology, but this story is rather big: Horsing around without adult supervision, a large group of adolescent and pre-adolescent dinosaurs died en masse 90 million years ago when they ran pell-mell into a mudhole, sinking to their doom as they frantically tried to pull themselves out...

China Takes Advantage of the Great Recession

Posted on March 17, 2009
Excellent article in the New York Times by one of my favorites, Keith Bradsher. It’s not exactly news, but it is a great summary of what Beijing is doing to not only prop up its economy during the downturn, but also to spend the money wisely to spur future economic development...

Tough New Rules in China for Computer Games - Part II

Posted on March 17, 2009
Some additional information on this topic, which I posted on yesterday. From China Tech News: The General Administration of Press and Publication of China will soon fix a new measure to regulate the cooperation between Chinese and foreign online games service providers and the new measure may focus on punishing foreign game operators who adopt arbitrary [...

China Business Tip: Use Your Time Wisely

Posted on March 16, 2009
This seems like an obvious truism, but you would be surprised at how many folks waste time over here, old China expats included. To be specific, my advice is to not spend several hours playing World of Goo when you should be doing something productive...

The Great Recession and Part II of the China Model Debate

Posted on March 16, 2009
You remember back when China’s economy was humming along at 10+% growth, year after year, and a favorite story in the politico-economic press was the success of the “China model”? This was the manufactured debate between the “Communist” system in China and the “Capitalist” system in the U...

Comparative Risk and China?s Dollar Investments

Posted on March 16, 2009
I haven’t commented on Grandpa Wen’s recent concerns about the dollar and China’s exposure in this area. Lots of reporting on this story in all the major papers, including the back-and-forth between Obama and others in D.C. as well as folks here in Beijing...

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