Archive for April, 2008
Joint Ventures: More Trouble Than They Are Worth?
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008My experience with Chinese joint ventures have been disappointing, but I’ve always stopped short of saying that a U.S. company should never enter into such a partnership. I can at least imagine cases where it makes sense to do a joint venture.
On the subject of joint ventures anyway, China Law Blog’s Steve Dickinson has […]
Censorship: Obstacle To Freedom
Monday, April 14th, 2008Censorship continues to be a major obstacle for this global superpower. When will their leaders understand that no nation can achieve maximum potential while freedoms are constrained?
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Get Ready For “Teaming Masses”
Saturday, April 12th, 2008One of the more popular videos on YouTube these days shows a group of Duke University students waving Chinese flags, chanting their support of the motherland (link here). That Chinese are able to protest in the U.S. is ironic, but even more interesting is the idea that average Chinese may be learning through these protests […]
France, Thou Dost Protest Too Much
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Recent protests in France were so successful that China is now considering a retaliatory strike against French products.
In the meantime, I caught an article written by a former activist from Poland:
I remember 14 December 1981. Arm in arm with trade union leaders, Andrzej Seweryn, Zbyszek Kowalewski and I were leading a demonstration protesting against the […]
China Land Speculation: Is This What Moving Inland Is All About?
Thursday, April 10th, 2008While many have reported that China manufacturing is on its knees, I want to assure that a great many of the country’s factories are doing just fine. I visited one manufacturer recently and was not surprised to hear that revenue increased 35% in 2007. While some manufacturers are falling on hard times, others are finding […]
China Drug Firm Dopes Greek Olympic Team By Mistake
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008A Shanghai pharma company may have managed to disqualify the entire Greek weightlifting team from the Olympics after shipping them tainted health supplements. A surprise inspection of the Greek team by the World Anti-Doping Agency revealed that 11 of the team’s athletes had unapproved substances in their systems. The Chinese firm has already apologized for […]
Chinese Security Forces: Coming Soon To A Street Near You!
Monday, April 7th, 2008John Pomfret launched a new blog at the Washington Post. An interesting voice on China, he put his best foot forward with a first post, “Don’t Expect Protests to Hurt Chinese Regime”:
[Protest is] going to weaken China’s government? On the contrary. The more pressure the Chinese get from foreigners and barbarians – which are actually […]
Careful Distinction: Financial Economy vs. Real Economy
Monday, April 7th, 2008Received an email from someone on Wall Street, who saw the last post and suggested that I clarify a distinction between the financial economy and “the real economy”. Since the difference has not been much talked about, and because it is important, I wanted to add his comments separately:
One point that I think needs to […]
Does China Really Depend On The U.S. Economy?
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Many are saying that a downturn in the U.S. economy will necessarily have a negative impact on China. David Frum, a former speech writer for George W. Bush, reflected this sentiment at NPR:
“Probably no major economy has ever depended so much on one partner as China now depends on the United States. Eighty percent of […]