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JPMorgan Chase Accused of Influence Peddling in China {eye roll} 20 Aug 2013 | 07:34 am
I’m sorry, but this is the big China scandal of the week, an accusation that a big investment bank hired family members of the rich and powerful? Seriously, is this some sort of journalistic practical...
GSK: Should Have Seen It Coming? 6 Aug 2013 | 09:52 am
Until now I haven’t written anything on the corruption scandal rocking pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, partially due to other commitments but also because I didn’t really see an interesting angle. Let’s...
WTO Chokes China’s Chicken (Import Duties) 4 Aug 2013 | 09:27 am
The post title, lame as it is, represents the sum total of all levity I can bring to this topic. This issue is about as dry and tasteless as . . . well, you can see where I’m going with this. Let’s g...
China Blog Funk-O-Rama 1 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
A strange funk seems to have descended on the English-language China Blogosphere, or at least those blogs that I usually follow (i.e., the ones focusing more on news, business, politics, economics and...
Whacking the Windmill: Sinovel Indicted, Next Stop U.S. Federal Court 1 Jul 2013 | 10:43 am
If you’re an environmentalist and into renewable energy, you might want to sit out this discussion about IP theft allegedly perpetrated by China’s wind turbine behemoth Sinovel. This story hits on som...
Why Are Lawyers in Asia So Cheap? 25 Jun 2013 | 06:17 am
To be clear, it’s not so much the lawyers who are cheap, just legal fees, at least compared to the U.S. and EU. This is the topic of “Asia’s Low Legal Stakes,” a recent article in The Asian Lawyer. No...
It’s 2013, and We’re Talking About Someone Defecting to the Reds 14 Jun 2013 | 10:14 am
The most recent blah blah blah about NSA whistleblower Eddie Snowden, now running about somewhere in Hong Kong (I’m guessing Lamma Island, with all the other hippies), is that he may defect to the PRC...
Protesting Too Much 9 Jun 2013 | 12:32 pm
China will continue to create fair, justified and open conditions for foreign businesses, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said in Chengdu on Thursday. Zhang made the remarks while meeting with attendees of t...
Smithfield-Shuanghui Deal: CFIUS, Food Quality, and More 2 Jun 2013 | 01:33 pm
I missed quite a few good China stories during my trip to India, but this proposed takeover of Smithfield Foods by Chinese meat powerhouse Shuanghui (also trades under the oleaginous name Shineway) is...
US-China Accounting Dispute Resolved? 25 May 2013 | 03:21 pm
I’m not so sure about that, but here’s an update: The U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced a deal Friday with Chinese regulators to access documents held by Chinese auditors, defus...
