How to Close Your China Business The Airbnb (Right) Way
How to Close Your China Business. Reasons to leave China and how to do it correctly.
U.S.-China Trade Policy and The Future of China-Focused Section 301 Duties
U.S.-China Trade Policy and The Future of China-Focused Section 301 Duties and the best tariff mitigation strategies you should employ now.
The Real Meaning of COVID-zero.
I got an email from a friend/client yesterday and I liked it so much I got his approval to run it, lightly edited to strip out any possible identifiers and with links added. This friend/client runs what was for a long time a very successful manufacturing business in China. He owns and operates a company
China Business Risks: The Questions We Got
China Business Risks: The Questions We Got. In this post we answer 18 questions regarding China risks, posed to us during our recent webinar.
Seven Great China Newsletters
Three Great China Newsletters. Sinocism by Bill Bishop. Trade War by Dexter Roberts. And China Boss News by Shannon Brandao.
Chinese Company Lawyers
Chinese companies do not use lawyers the way most companies use lawyers. There are many reasons for this and it may eventually change.
The China Supply Chain Nightmare: It Is Time to Panic
Fortune Magazine just came out with an article entitled: "Companies are beginning to panic: Experts say China’s lockdowns will make inflation and the supply chain nightmare even worse." To which my immediate thought was, "beginning"? Smart companies were panicking months ago; today is just the realization of so much of that panic. And do NOT say we did not warn you of all this. But before I turn to proving how our supply chain predictions have become reality, I will extensively summarize and quote from this Fortune article to get you up to speed with the disaster that is today's China supply chain.
China and Web3 Crossover
Since launching our Web3 practice group, we have been getting steady inquiries regarding international business and web3 crossover, including China-affiliated companies. Essentially all web3 technologies are international in nature. But unless you are personally interested and invested in cryptocurrencies or your business is heavily dependent on blockchain technology, it is likely that you are part
Sourcing Product From China Just Got Even Riskier
Sourcing product from China just got even riskier. Theses risks have never been higher and they just keep increasing. The Russian war and COVID in China are the key causes for this increased risk and both are nearly certain to get far worse.
How to Avoid International Scams
Scammers love operating internationally because it makes them more difficult to track and it also makes suing and collecting more complicated as well. They also seem to work better than domestic scams because the person being scammed too often thinks this is just how things are done in foreign country X because they do not actually know how things are done in foreign country X. Crossing borders increases confusion stemming from a lack of knowledge regarding language, culture, and regulation. All this combines to make international scams widely popular. In this post we discuss some of the more common scams and, most importantly, we discuss how to avoid getting scammed.