好合同是关键，腐败见鬼去吧
前几天收到某家规模不小的公司发来的邮件，询问与泰国、台湾、印尼和马来西亚等国企业签订制造合约的优势。邮件内容大致如下（我用"大致"是因为已做修改，确保无人能识别出具体来源）：
Repeat After Me: There Will be No US-China Trade Deal
The US-China Trade War Is and Will be the New Normal I hate to say we told you so, but for nearly a year, WE TOLD YOU SO. Since October, 2018 we have been all but screaming at anyone and everyone who has product made in China and sold into the United States to get
Does China WANT a Second Decoupling? The Chinese Texts Say That it Does
Presidents Xi and Trump prepare for a meeting next week at the G20 event with the purported goal of restarting negotiations to resolve the Section 301 tariff dispute and other trade issues between the U.S. and China. Many analysts and business people from both countries are confident this meeting will lead to resolution. Unfortunately, this
为何不该在中国教英语
如果你正在考虑去中国教英语，我强烈建议你：千万别去。不妨去越南、泰国、日本、西班牙、墨西哥、哥伦比亚、巴西、捷克共和国，或者世界上任何其他地方找这样的工作。我之所以这么说，是因为在中国教英语已经变得如此腐败、如此糟糕、如此剥削，而且风险极高。
The Critical Absence of Attorney-Client Confidentiality in China: Risks and Remedies
China Does Not Have an Attorney-Client Privilege In the United States and much of the rest of the world, private communications between a lawyer and their client are protected from disclosure without the client’s consent. This fundamental protection does not exist in China. The Critical Risks of No Attorney-Client Privilege in China Confidentiality is the
Getting Your Money Out of China: Do Your Cash Repatriation Requests Correctly
In 2016, in Getting Money Out of China: The Long Version, we wrote how Western companies were contacting our China lawyers to get money out of China to get paid on all sorts of deals. On our China Law Blog Facebook Page, we linked over to the original post and described it as “In which we
The Huawei Sales Ban
The real economic threat posed by the US-China trade war is not tariffs. The real threat has always been the U.S. government prohibiting product sales to China and product purchases from China and focus on the tariff issue misses this. As we wrote in Who Pays the Tariffs on China Imports? there are various things companies
China Employment Offer Letters: Compliance is Mandatory
China Employment Offer Letters are Not Mandatory China employers often want to extend an employment offer letter to their potential new hires to prove they are serious about bringing them on board. Some candidates expect or may even request an “official” offer letter from their potential employer. This is understandable. However, offer letters are neither
Tariffs Against China Products: A Roadmap on What YOU Should do Now
1. The New Tariffs The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) formally published a notice in the Federal Register (this means it is official) confirming President Trump’s by now famous weekend tweet: U.S. imports of Chinese products, valued at $200 billion, that have been subject to 10 percent tariff since September 24, 2018, will now be subject to
Selling Your China WFOE: Yeah, That’s the Ticket
1. Selling a China WFOE In the last year or so, our China lawyers have been seeing a steady increase in emails from people inquiring about selling their China WFOEs. I have gotten three or four of these in the last month alone, including the following one this week, which is fairly typical: I have