International Law

Not China, But a Marketing Technique Worth Reading About

Posted on January 03, 2008
Pay close attention to this marketing technique, used brilliantly and shamelessly by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat from Rhode Island: Ironically, Kennedy said that the day before Bhutto was killed, he found himself chatting with Pakistanis about the assassination of his uncle...

The Seductive Strains of the China Bandwagon

Posted on December 26, 2007
Jim Rogers, megamillionaire, has given up on the United States: China is the promised land. (He's flogging a book.) Who can fault the investing expertise of one who has made more money than we ever will? Martin Howell of Reuters, for one, in an article succinctly entitled, Jumping on the China Bandwagon with Jim Rogers...

Recommended Blog: China's Scientific and Academic Integrity Watch

Posted on December 21, 2007
Those of you in China having several years of experience hiring top research talent from the top universities are, I suspect, aware that Chinese students, even from these schools, must be vetted with care. It is not that Chinese are more likely to cheat than another nationality -- academic dishonesty is rife everywhere there is an intent to cut corners (and cheap and easy internet access to sources ripe for plagiarism)...

Treasury Secretary Paulson: China is Not a Currency Manipulator

Posted on December 19, 2007
Riddle me this, Caped Crusader: What American official puts pressure on the yuan by not putting pressure on the yuan? This just in: "What we've said before in the report ... is if we were to designate China as a manipulator, the remedy would be to negotiate with China directly and through multilateral bodies including the IMF, which is exactly what we've been doing for some time," Paulson said...

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Avoid Chinese Farmed Seafood Products

Posted on December 15, 2007
Having observed several fish farms in China -- shockingly unclean conditions -- I have always avoided the purchase of farmed fish and fish products originating anywhere in Asia, except for Japan. David Barboza's article strongly suggests that you do, too: ?Our waters here are filthy,? said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing...

FDA Inspectors Embedded in Chinese Food Production System?

Posted on December 12, 2007
From the New York Times: China Agrees to Post U.S. Safety Officials in Its Food Factories. Embedded, like Judith Miller in Iraq? Michael O. Leavitt, secretary of health and human services, said he expected that Food and Drug Administration officials would eventually be embedded in China?s food safety bureaucracy to help train Chinese officials and keep records on their inspections...

And Wahaha Laughs...

Posted on December 10, 2007
We briefly posted on the Danone-Wahaha scandal in June. Now comes the sound of the other shoe dropping. From the Wall Street Journal: A Chinese beverage maker won a trademark arbitration ruling against joint-venture partner Groupe Danone SA, the latest legal twist in a closely watched case and one that is unlikely to end the dispute...

Fairclough Visits Chery Factory

Posted on December 04, 2007
Gordon Fairclough of the Wall Street Journal visited Chery's main auto plant in Wuhu City in Anhui Province. As you may recall, Chery was -- remains? -- a focus of intellectual property disputes and safety concerns (crash test pix here; video, here)...

Law and Religion: A Western Perspective on China

Posted on November 28, 2007
Southern Weekly ??????interviewed Harold Berman, author of " Law and Revolution," found here and here. That Berman, whose expertise extended to the religious foundations of Western law, should be the focus of a two-hour interview with an iconoclastic and popular Chinese language Sunday Magazine is in itself a wonder -- not solely for its political commentary...

Demands for Currency Revaluation Ad Infinitum

Posted on November 16, 2007
Once again the helpless cry in the Western wilderness. Won't China allow the Yuan to "strengthen at a faster rate?" No, indeed. How is doing so in China's interest? The movers and shakers of the so-called great economic powers, who have, it is said, the power over the purses that pay for imported product -- are powerless to affect any change either at home or abroad, despite ostensible regulatory control and direct market influence...

Guest Analysis: Yunnan Province and the Hukou Registration System

Posted on November 09, 2007
[Editor's Note: I'm grateful to Carl Minzner, author of the China Law and Politics blog, for permitting the reposting of his analysis below. His post represents a scarce example in modern Chinese Studies of a laudable skepticism towards a claim, the import of which, if unquestioned, would have lead to an unfounded assumption regarding Chinese life, law and government...

Diamonds for the Chinese Masses

Posted on November 03, 2007
Baseball for the Chinese masses? The State Department sending Cal Ripken to Shanghai? Yes, yes, I know something of the hallowed traditions of Japanese baseball and more recently the Taiwanese leagues. Those were begun on sandlots by boys imitating the American soldiers stationed on military bases, and they grew organically...

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