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China Hearsay

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

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Horse and Buggy Thinking

Posted on July 22, 2008
I think a non-China post to end the day is forgivable. As an IP and technology lawyer, I have a passing interest in technology. I deal with lawyers and business guys on a regular basis who are clueless when it comes to new tech, and some of these folks are supposed to be experts...

Beijing Tourists - lock up them laptops

Posted on July 22, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal: A debate is brewing in the U.S. government over whether to publicly warn businesspeople and other travelers heading to the Beijing Olympics about the dangers posed by Chinese computer hackers. According to government officials and security consultants, U...

Obama on China: Stay the Course

Posted on July 22, 2008
From a recent interview with Fareed Zakaria (wearing his CNN hat): ZAKARIA: You talked about the other threats we face. In dealing with these threats, how should we approach other nations? John McCain has talked about a new G-8, the group of the richest countries in the world, which would exclude Russia, expel Russia, and not [...

Beijing Olympics Going to the Dogs

Posted on July 22, 2008
This story got a fair amount of play a week or so ago when I was busy playing lawyer. The following is from the WSJ China blog: Restaurants at the 112 Olympics-contracted hotels in Beijing have been ordered not to offer dog meat during the Games, while other restaurants in the city are being [...

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China?s ?Occupation? of Africa

Posted on July 21, 2008
This Daily Mail article is quite over the top: In the greatest movement of people the world has ever seen, China is secretly working to turn the entire continent into a new colony. Reminiscent of the West’s imperial push in the 18th and 19th centuries - but on a much more dramatic, determined scale - China’s [...

Best Line of the Day

Posted on July 21, 2008
From Lore Sjoberg at Wired: We can safely stop calling Star Wars a movie and recognize it for what it really is: a virulent media infection. It’s a great movie to be sure, but there are many superior movies, and none of them have inspired, say, thousands of people to dress up as faceless, [...

China Advertising Law Roundtable - postscript

Posted on July 21, 2008
As requested, here are some comments on last Friday’s roundtable discussion on China advertising law issues. A couple of general items first. This was a small group discussion that included several clients, some government officials, members of a quasi-governmental body, a PR professional, and several of my firm’s lawyers...

Consistently Inconsistent

Posted on July 17, 2008
This describes my blogging schedule of late. Seems to be one day on, one day off. I’m trying, folks. Today’s excuse was an Internet advertising contract that took up a big portion of the day. I’m also trying to get ready for a roundtable discussion the firm is hosting tomorrow afternoon on China advertising law...

Sexual Harassment Case in Chengdu

Posted on July 16, 2008
According to Reuters (h/t Shanghaiist): A Chinese man has been given five months in detention for kissing a female colleague against her will, a local newspaper said on Wednesday, the first time punishment has been meted out under a new sexual harassment law...

Real Americans Only Speak English

Posted on July 16, 2008
This might be of interest to expats: From a recent Barack Obama speech (h/t Crooks & Liars): “You know, no, I’m serious about this. We should understand that our young people, if you have a foreign language, that is a powerful tool to get a job...

Danone vs. Wahaha - in it for the long haul

Posted on July 16, 2008
The dispute that just wouldn’t die (courtesy of Shanghai Daily): GROUPE Danone SA’s requests for interim measures against estranged Chinese venture partner Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co and its Chairman Zong Qinghou were rejected by an arbitration tribunal in Sweden...

Last Word on Kung Fu Panda

Posted on July 16, 2008
OK, this must be at least my third post on this stupid "controversy" about the movie, so consider this the last one. But I can’t let this sentence on the Time China blog go without comment: Before the American movie "Kung Fu Panda" debuted in China, it seemed destined to set off controversy that foreign filmmakers [...

Kung Fu Panda - Part Deux

Posted on July 14, 2008
This story in Danwei is, well, I suppose "bizarre" is the only way to describe it. Apparently a professor at Beijing University is all hot and bothered about the film Kung Fu Panda. I wrote about this earlier with regard to Zhao Bandi’s ridiculous protests - this represents a new level of weird...

I Wish to Register a Complaint

Posted on July 14, 2008
1. The Kansas City Star Both the U.S. government and the American Lung Association have published travel alerts for American tourists warning them about pollution. After reading this article, I felt like packing up and moving somewhere, anywhere. But, hell, my lungs are already shot from growing up in LA in the 70s, so I guess I’ll [...

Ted Koppel on China

Posted on July 14, 2008
I think everyone is already aware of the Discovery Channel series on China, hosted by Ted Koppel, which aired last week. I haven’t seen any footage yet, although I will at some point and share my thoughts (if I have anything remotely important to add, that is)...

Why You Should ID That IP Early

Posted on July 08, 2008
Nifty article received from McKinsey recently: The Internet and new social-networking technologies are allowing companies and their customers to interact with unprecedented levels of richness. Some leading organizations are using this opportunity to draw customers into the heart of the product-development process...

The Future of Chinglish

Posted on July 08, 2008
This is perhaps the funkiest Chinglish article I’ve ever read, and it is quite thought-provoking. The following is the concluding paragraph: Any language is constantly evolving, so it’s not surprising that English, transplanted to new soil, is bearing unusual fruit...

Sticky China Operations

Posted on July 08, 2008
Rich posted this thoughtful reminder about globalization and its limitations last week: Now that everyone has come off their China high, and it seems like an endless stream of editorials about China’s days being over, I think it is time to ask a critical question...

How to be a Successful Blogger

Posted on July 08, 2008
I love reading the Freakonomics Blog at the New York Times. Sometime you get wonderful nuggets of wisdom like this: People who make millions of dollars doing one thing often come to view themselves as being experts in subjects far afield from those in which they made their wealth...

Big Ambitions for US-China BIT?

Posted on July 07, 2008
Just for the record: The United States and China agreed to launch negotiations of a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) today [a couple weeks ago] during the fourth meeting of the United States-China Strategic Economic Dialogue. In negotiating the BIT, the United States would seek to secure for U...

The (U.S.) Tax Man Cometh

Posted on July 07, 2008
U.S. citizens, if this tidbit from China Briefing doesn’t scare you, then you have my respect and admiration: The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is opening an office and place an attaché within the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The office, which will open “by the end of the 2008 fiscal tax year” according to Barry Shott, the deputy [...

Beijing Thinks ?Baby on Board? Is Good Idea

Posted on July 07, 2008
This is old news that was stuck in my drafts folder when my PC committed suicide - no reason to waste a serviceable post. Felt slightly ill when I saw this: Beijing on Tuesday started handing out buttons reading "to-be mum" to pregnant women in hope they would be protected in public places...

Recent Excuses Not to Blog

Posted on July 07, 2008
Several days since posting. See if you can figure out why: 1. Weather too hot 2. Office too cold 3. Too much work 4. Too much pollution/too little oxygen 5. Bricked PC 6. Boring news 7. Olympics fatigue 8. All energy devoted to office politics 9...

Who Owns that Brand, Anyway?

Posted on June 27, 2008
Dongwon Group of South Korea announced that it will buy a controlling stake in StarKist from Del Monte Food for more than $300 million. StarKist is a very well-known brand of canned tuna in the U.S. (not sure if they have other products). This is not the first time a foreign company has picked up a [...

The (Sadly Elusive) Olympic Spirit

Posted on June 27, 2008
After all that we’ve been through this year with the Olympics, I find this sentiment from Cathy Freeman refreshing and welcome: "When you become that focused, you don’t really pay that much attention to elements that you can’t control like weather or pollution,” she said...

American vs. Chinese Sheep

Posted on June 25, 2008
You’ll have to read most of this post, I’m afraid, before you get to the "sheep" part. Just a warning. For those who are either very interested in the issue of Internet censorship or, alternatively, just want to catch up on the world of Kaiser Kuo, his latest blog post is highly recommended...

China, India and Oil Prices

Posted on June 25, 2008
Lots of folks these days are looking to lay blame for spiking oil/gas prices. Some of them gaze towards China and India, which do represent a large part of new growth, although not the majority of aggregate demand. Others have blamed the oil companies, oil speculators, and so forth...

Get Thee to a China Tort Litigator

Posted on June 25, 2008
Recommendation and brief comment on a recent post by Charlie McElwee at China Environmental Law. I’ve probably been remiss in saying that this blog is one of the best issue-focused China blogs out there. Very substantive and thorough. It helps to be either a law or environmental wonk...

Fiat Apologizes to China Over TV Ad

Posted on June 23, 2008
Someone should win a Darwin Award for this ad campaign: Italian car maker Fiat has apologized to China over its new television commercial featuring U.S. actor Richard Gere and a reference to Tibet after Chinese newspapers carried reports about it. Its shows Gere driving the car from Hollywood to Tibet, whose autonomy from China he supports...

Obama?s China Hands

Posted on June 23, 2008
Thomas Crampton posted a list I have been waiting for: the China teams for the candidates. Here’s the Obama group: Directly in charge of the Asia team is Amb. Jeff Bader, ex-State, NSC, USTR, also in charge of China, and administering the team via Mona Sutphen, of Stonebridge International, directly to the Campaign via Denis McDonough, [...

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