中美贸易战：寒冬将至
1. 中国背弃了开放经济的承诺十多年来，我始终近距离观察着中国。本律师事务所于2006年1月创立此博客，而在此之前我们早已开始为在华及亚洲其他地区的外资企业提供法律服务。当我们启动这个博客时——
China’s New Foreign Investment Law Benefits: Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig
Image by Ixocactus In a series of recent posts, we discussed how the media and many commentators have wrongly ascribed great things to the new PRC Foreign Investment Law. See New China Foreign Investment Law: Not Good News, China’s New Foreign Investment Law and Forced Technology Transfer: Same As it Ever Was and China Approves New
(Before) Accepting a Job in China: The Questions to Ask
Most of my China employment work is for employers, but in the last few years, my work representing expat employees keeps rising and it now equals roughly ten percent of my China employment practice. This increase in expat employment law matters is due to two things: Chinese companies are hiring more expats, and word has
中美贸易战，赢家竟是……墨西哥
当我还是个十岁左右的小男孩，在美国中部小镇长大时，我最好的朋友之一皮特·柯林斯（又名"大块头"）不知怎么弄到了本地一场职业摔跤比赛的门票。于是我们去了某个拼凑得令人作呕的体育馆看比赛——
The Canton Fair: Find Out What’s Happening with Your IP
Old pirates, yes, they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships — Bob Marley’s Redemption Song 1. The Canton Fair The 125th Canton Fair will kick off on April 15th. For those unfamiliar with this event (formally known as the China Import and Export Fair), it is China’s largest trade show, held biannually in
China in Myanmar: The New Colonialism?
Robert Walsh, sometime Seattle resident and long-time friend of our law firm (we have worked on a number of Asia deals together and we — Dan and Steve — met up with him on our last trip to Myanmar), has spent the last four years in Myanmar, where he operates a vibrant business consultancy. Robert
Wanda Exits The Qingdao Film Metropolis: What Next?
I wrote the below post regarding the Qingdao Film Metropolis project in April of 2018. After we ran the post, I received threats of legal action and of violence against both me and my family. That led us to take the post down but now that Wanda has completely pulled out of the Film Metropolis
What to Do if You are Arrested in China
Before I explain what to do if arrested in China, I should set out the following “whys” behind this post: 1. Foreigners get arrested overseas all the time. Not just in China. 2. Foreigners get arrested all the time in China, for all sorts of things, including for things that would not be crimes in
How to Avoid Being Detained in China
Yesterday, in Would the Last Foreign Company in China Please Turn Off the Lights, Part 2, I discussed the recent arrest of Meng Wanzhou and Chinese government threats by the Chinese government against the United States and Canada for that arrest. A lot has been written about how China may retaliate against US and Canadian