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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

Meeting Expectations

Posted on March 21, 2008
Nancy Pelosi makes some unsurprising comments. Note the ridiculous photo. {sigh} Tim Johnson passes on U.S. State Department advice about the possibility of tourists being bugged while in Beijing. Sounds like Moscow back in the old days. I don’t really think that your average tourist’s room is going to be bugged, particularly since we do not [...

Cooperation, or Lack Thereof

Posted on March 21, 2008
Here’s an interesting development (from China Tech News): China’s State Food and Drug Administration has exposed 25 websites that have been involved in illegal selling of medicines. Wow, good for SFDA. They could use some good press these days...

There?s Enforcement, and Then There?s Enforcement

Posted on March 20, 2008
Very interesting post on IP Dragon about one company’s struggle with patent infringement in various countries. The following passage was of particular interest to me: Even though we have enforceable Taiwanese and Chinese patents issued, we have had no success in stopping any Asian companies...

The Sounds of Silence

Posted on March 20, 2008
For me, silence usually means I have too much #%@*ing work to do and don’t have time to blog, or possibly because my crappy Internet access at home makes posting impossible. For others, silence on particular topics is a carefully thought-out issue...

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Don?t Want To Talk About It

Posted on March 17, 2008
The news has been rather depressing of late, and that coupled with my severe bandwidth problem at home and the nasty hours I’ve been pulling at work - well, this translates to very few posts the last few days. After this weekend, I figure that this is a good thing...

The Heart of the Free Trade Debate

Posted on March 17, 2008
From Dani Rodrik: Greg Mankiw bemoans the huge gap between the economics profession and the common people on free trade. Unlike him, I tend to think the fault lies with economists, who have traditionally proselytized free trade rather than communicated what economics really teaches on trade...

China Crime

Posted on March 17, 2008
Is crime increasing in China, particularly in the big cities? Yes, according to the Associated Press. This also agrees with the other anecdotal evidence one has been hearing from the usual sources in recent months, both from the expat grapevine as well as online chatter on the Chinese BBSs...

Eight More Months of This Likely

Posted on March 12, 2008
Instead of writing a substantive, useful post about China law or business, I think I’ll continue complaining about unimportant stuff. It’s a theme with me today. I’m already quite tired of this kind of thing. Here’s what is apparently a serious Op/Ed piece from a Harvard sociology professor commenting about Hillary Clinton’s recent, now infamous "3 [...

Those Darn Headlines

Posted on March 12, 2008
I seem to be attacking bad headlines recently. Here’s my favorite awful headline of the day (thus far): US: Olympic Host China Lacks Freedoms Wow, that’s some snappy writing there, eh? Certainly makes me want to read that article, or alternatively shoot myself in the head - I’m sort [...

MSG and Me

Posted on March 12, 2008
This NY Times article on MSG seems to be floating around the Internets recently. The article is mostly about how MSG is used in Asian cooking, and it pretty much downplays the health effects. I have no idea how many people get a reaction from eating MSG, but I am definitely one [...

McCain?s Running Mate?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Some initial speculation about who John McCain would choose as his Vice Presidential running mate has China implications: One person who’s getting only a little attention, but perhaps should get more, is Chris Cox. The former California congressman and China hawk is a poster boy for conservatives and currently heads the Securities and Exchange Commission...

Spicing up those trade figures

Posted on March 11, 2008
My latest complaint is with news accounts of the PRC trade balance numbers. OK, yes the trade surplus went down a lot, but everyone who doesn’t live in a cave understands that a lot of this has to do with the snowstorms. Is there a general shrinking of the trade gap due to a slow [...

This has to be a joke

Posted on March 11, 2008
Hot off the presses: CHINESE beverage giant Wahaha Group has rejected a new cooperation plan put forward by French food group Danone, saying the ongoing peace negotiation is hard to continue, Wahaha said on Sunday. Danone proposed the two companies merge all their businesses to form a new company that will eventually be listed on the [...

Explain this to me

Posted on March 10, 2008
This will no doubt sound ignorant, stupid, or worse, but that’s never stopped me before. From the Washington Post: OVER THE past few years, China — budding superpower that it is — has repeatedly objected to international interventions in its domestic affairs...

The F Visa Problem

Posted on March 10, 2008
With respect to this issue: A few weeks ago, I wrote the post Notice: Chinese F Visas Cannot Be Renewed Past Olympics, and apparently I was wrong. Over the last 10 days or so, I have been fielding emails, Skypes, and phone calls from friends and readers about the pain in the butt that has become their [...

Ode to Videoconferencing

Posted on March 10, 2008
I gave yet another presentation yesterday morning. Seems like I’m doing one of these a week recently. This one was an in-house training thing for a client and it covered commercial contracts issues like warranties, damages, indemnification, limitations on liability – that sort o’ stuff – with a focus on the PRC law position of [...

Inflation Confusion

Posted on March 10, 2008
Just read a UBS report yesterday on China macro issues. The article was written by Jonathan Anderson back in mid-February. Sorry I can’t link to it – not public info. Anyway, Anderson was talking about RMB revaluation, but as part of that discussion went into some detail about inflation...

Register ?em if you got ?em

Posted on March 05, 2008
Dan has, in a not so subtle fashion, noted that I have been posting a lot recently about being sleepy, working a lot, etc. - essentially complaining too much. I hadn’t noticed, but now that you mention it . . Nobody likes a grouch, so I’m going to try and tone [...

China Competitiveness Survey

Posted on March 05, 2008
Thanks to Rich, I have downloaded and checked out the latest survey by Booz Allen and AmCham. Nothing very surprising in there, but it’ll make some news. Some of the factoids Rich highlights from the survey results: Operations management is a factor: The study found that three out of four companies lack fundamental [...

Who Does Bhagwati Like?

Posted on March 05, 2008
I haven’t been posting much recently on the protectionist sentiments of the Democrats - too depressing. Couple that with the presence of McCain, the self-professed ingnoramus when it comes to economic policy, on the other side, and the whole topic can seriously piss me off...

Not Just Me Who?s Sleepy

Posted on March 04, 2008
From the only industrialized nation that does not have a law mandating vacation time (or so I heard): Hey you! Dozing at your desk! Wake up, go home and get more sleep! That could be the message from a survey released Monday by the National Sleep Foundation...

Defense Analysis Not What It Used To Be

Posted on March 04, 2008
Well, actually I have no idea how it used to be. However, I am quite underwhelmed by this (from CNN.com): The Chinese military continues to increase spending on efforts to break into U.S. military computer systems, expand its Navy, and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites, according to the latest U...

IP Win For Motorola

Posted on March 04, 2008
All you cynics out there take heed. Motorola just won a patent infringement suit in China. ChinaTechNews has the early details: Motorola has announced the favorable results of a a lawsuit it filed against a Chinese company for patent infringement. In 2007, Motorola filed the suit against Guangzhou Weierwei Electronic Science and Technology Company because Weierwei’s two-way [...

Who Is This Person And Why Is This News?

Posted on March 04, 2008
From China Digital Times: Icelandic pop singer Bjork backed independence for Tibet during her concert on Sunday in Shanghai, eyewitnesses said on Monday. She shouted “Tibet, Tibet!” followed by “Raise your flag!” towards the end of her final song, “Declare independence...

?It?s Working!?

Posted on February 28, 2008
The words were spoken by a disgruntled expat in an elevator this morning. If I had to guess, I would say he was French, but I don’t know for sure. Here’s what happened. The expat gets on and stands there patiently by the control panel - in this particular elevator, there is only one panel on [...

More Food for Thought on Income Inequality

Posted on February 28, 2008
Well, this is actually about more than income inequality, but close enough. This is from the Peterson Institute (h/t China Economics Blog): A silent revolution has been taking place in China. Somehow, without anyone noticing, the capitalists have upended the People’s Republic...

Couldn?t Let this One Go

Posted on February 27, 2008
This now-old post by Rich on poverty tourism sat in my inbox for the last couple of weeks. I couldn’t delete it, even knowing that this is not the sort of topic I usually write about. Let me back up. The topic is people traveling to another country/area to check [...

Still Awake

Posted on February 27, 2008
Last night was the second in a two-part tele-seminar on IP rights in China. Again I was the last speaker. This one was on IP enforcement. I called in at 1:45am, and the seminar was finished at slightly before 4:00am. Great speakers, good topics, reasonably pleasant experience - except for the timing of course...

Funniest Story of the Year?

Posted on February 25, 2008
It just might be this U.S. satellite thing. If you missed this wonderful story, the U.S. government announced that it would have to shoot a spy satellite down because it contained noxious fumes or something. If it was allowed to crash, someone might fall ill, oh my...

Quick Note on the U.S. Election

Posted on February 25, 2008
While I usually do not hesitate to mix non-China posts in with the usual stuff on occasion, I do not like to make a habit of it. During the run-up to the 2004 election, I did not post all that much on U.S. politics except when China came up as an issue...

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