In Cashing in on Internet Censorship, CNN News writes how business for Virtual Private Network (VPN) companies is booming these days, thanks largely to China and Iran. 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
Did a post recently, How To Speak Through A Chinese Interpreter, setting out ten things that will improve your speaking through a Chinese interpreter. That post led to a number of comments, including one that really kinda ticked me off. And I almost never get ticked off. The comment that really bugged me was from
My business requires I spend a lot of time speaking with others through an interpreter. I have actually gotten pretty good at using really good interpreters to hide my own flaws. Within my office, we have people capable of translating/interpreting English, French, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Sanskrit (never used), Vietnamese, German, Spanish, and even a
China is watching you. I am convinced about 99.9% of all emails go through. But to me, that means at least a few of the emails I send each week will not reach its destination. If I do not hear back from someone rather quickly, I just assume they did not get my email and
When the media and the blogosphere started going crazy writing about China’s plans to ban the eating of dog meat, I made clear to myself that I was going to stay out of it. There was just no way I was going to join that bandwagon. First off, I just did not see it as
Excellent podcast/article on Technomic Asia’s Business Blog and Podcast, entitled, China calling: Direct Sales in China, [link no longer exists] on how direct sales just seem to correspond naturally to the concept of guanxi in China: Historically, sales in China have been based on guanxi. I get the sale, not necessarily because I have the
Just got the below comment (#63 on our post, China: First Let’s Clear Out The Long Time Foreigners) posing important questions and leaving hanging some common misconceptions about doing business in China: So here’s my question albeit already bounced around but no solid answer given…. JV or WFOE for a new foreign company launching in
On January 1, 2006, China implemented its New Company Law. At around that same time, Harris Sliwoski’s own 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
One of the misconceptions I am always fighting about China is that it has no laws. Even people who should know better often just assume there is nothing on the China law books to cover a particular business law matter. Their assumptions oftentimes stem from their having seen companies act in many different ways, leading
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 so many foreigners that do business in China misunderstand its extent
