China Law Blog (aka Best “Chinese Business Blog”) offered 3 posts recently about Chinese companies doing business in America: “Ten Reasons Chinese Companies Fail In The United States“, Why United States Lawsuits Against Chinese Companies Are Trending Up. Just Follow The Money, Why China Companies Are A Litigation Mark (As In Sucker), Part II. [...]

Stan Abrams at China Hearsay wrote a tongue-and-cheek article about conspicuous consumption in China: justifying yatch ownership. This is an awesome post because it has pictures of hot swimsuit girls on boats.

The post is about a China Daily article about how boat-ownership can be considered a business expense. Stan’s common-sense point is basically [...]

Danwei translated an article in China Computer World called “F–king Tencent” . The article is about how Tencent’s competitors are mad at Tencent for being the King of Shanzhai internet companies:
Beginning with its first product, OICQ (the former incarnation of Tencent QQ), which copied ICQ, Tencent has never been able to bury its “copying [...]

Dan at China Law Blog made a commentary about an article in Forbes called “Five Reasons China Will Rule Tech”. Dan’s criticism of the Forbes article focuses whats wrong with the article. I will summarize the post to say that the Forbes article says five things that don’t stand up to logical scrutiny. [...]

I believe this interactive graphic from Caixin Online adds neccessary data to my earlier post, “Taikongren’s definitive “What’s happening with Chinese Labor” (updated) (h/t to Talent in China). I don’t have anything else to say about this, except I’m thankful to Frank Mulligan of Talent in China for pointing out this to me.

I think I already said I am not going to talk about Google anymore. That is in-part because everyone else has already talked about them. Also, my moral arguments about this topic make some people think that I’m some sort of “China apologist”.
Then came the news that China renewed Google’s Google.cn [...]

Gilbert B. Kaplan, “Former Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Commerce” wrote an editorial on the Huffington Post titled “Let’s Move the iPad Back to America“. His article was stupid in the extreme. His article was a political commentary, and as such, was written in a way [...]

New Taikongren’s Advice standard graphic for posts related to Foxconn
From Shanghai-ist, Elaine Chow published a translation of a new letter (original in Chinese here) which Foxconn want’s its employees to sign. I feel its so stupid it can’t be true. Sort of like some of the reality TV shows I never actually watch.
Anyway, [...]

Thanks to China Challenges for bringing to my attention to the works of Frank Mulligan at the Talent in China blog. He has some similar domain focuses as me; this makes me very excited.
The latest post on at Talent in China is about Job Descriptions (JDs), with a focus on “title inflations”:
The difficulties often [...]

A post from Brian Schwarz of China Challenges brought to my attention this news piece: Mattel getting a waver from the government from implementing 3rd party safety checks1. There is one thing I particularly like about this post… it points out that the toys come from Mattel, not just “come from China”. [...]

Dan Harris at China Law Blog posted an email from Steve Dickenson; the post is called “China Employment Contracts. Ten Things To Consider.” [Side-point: I think that "Hero Protagonist" in my "AmPharm" case study consulted Steve about his situation and received great advice...which confirmed for me many of the things I was telling him [...]

One of my favorite “magazine” bloggers, Andrew Leonard at Salon: How the World Works wrote a post titled “Fiddling with China’s yuan while the U.S. burns:
Look what happened while America whined about currency manipulation: An amazing high-speed railroad network“. Andrew makes the point that the valuation issue is one of “yesterday’s battles” and will [...]

Unprepared for professional job…except work at hair salon.
Stan Abrams of China Hearsay wrote a post about a China Daily survey which shows that recent college graduates think that they have not learned the professional skills that will help them succeed while in college. To this sentiment, Stan says, in so many words, “duh!”
Stan also [...]

Every week I’m trying to add at least one post or article that comes from my research, as well as blog about current events in Chinese business. As far as current events are concerned, I didn’t find anything that was not being covered thoroughly (ie. better than what I could create) by other blogs. [...]

In the hopes of making this blog “great”, I’m continuing my research into other China blogs. Andrew Huber wrote a post at the China Economic Review about “Negotiating lessons we can learn from Google.”
Some of his post is obvious and/or common sense from B-school. (i.e. develop a Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement, [...]