In Cashing in on Internet Censorship, CNN News writes how VPN companies is booming, thanks largely to China. The article discusses how "foreign companies are profiting from software that allows circumvention of government internet controls." The article quotes one of my law firm's international attorneys on how businesses that offer firewall avoidance software in China are
China is watching you. I am convinced about 99.99% of all emails go through. But for me, that means at least a few of the emails I send each week will not reach their destination. If I do not hear back from someone quickly, I assume they did not get my email and I send
On January 1, 2006, China implemented its New Company Law. At around that same time, Steve Dickinson wrote a scholarly article on the new law for the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, entitled, Introduction to the New Company Law of the People's Republic of China. At around the same time, Steve wrote the China
There usually is one right way for businesses to act legally in China and if you are a foreign company, your best bet is to know and follow Chinese law. One of the problems businesses face in China is too many laws, some of which conflict with others. In Do Too Many Rules Erode the
The Matt Schivenza blog has a new post, Foreign Woman Removes Top At Beach in Qingdao, Causes Major Disturbance. [link no longer exists]. Matt's post tracks what I was talking about this morning with a client: not nudity, but rule of law, and how foreigners that do business in China often misunderstand misperceive what China
If one of our clients owes money to a Chinese company and it cannot pay all its creditors, our international dispute resolution lawyers recommend they pay the Chinese company last because the Chinese company will likely never sue to recover. I am NOT advocating not paying debts to Chinese creditors, but I am saying that
Comparing Korea and China Lawyers A post like this has to generalize a bit, and there are exceptions to everything I say below. However, having worked with dozens of law firms in both Korea and China, I have noticed the following four problems when dealing with lawyers from these two countries: KOREA LAWYERS 1.Non-responsiveness is
Depositions in China You are a litigator preparing a case in the United States. Your case is in the discovery phase and you want to depose a key witness located in Mainland. This witness is either unable or unwilling to come to the United States, and so their deposition must be taken in China. How
"I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace." Bob Dylan, Man of Peace "I am a man of peace." Kwai Chang Caine, Kung Fu, Episode 8 "Peace lies not in the world...but in the man who walks the path." Master Po, Kung Fu, Episode 8 When I took on this task of
China Joint Venture Lessons The China Economic Review recently featured an article by Steve Dickinson [a former China lawyer with our law firm, who retired in 2021] on the Danone-Wahaha dispute, an outgrowth of a presentation he gave at JP Morgan on China joint ventures. The article, titled Danone v. Wahaha: The lessons to be
