Dan Harris, on the always-excellent China Law Blog, has listed out listed 6 common myths that he hears regularly from foreigners coming to work in China. I then wrote to him with a list of myths that I encounter time and time again from my clients—and he commented

As promised, here is the outline of the presentation that I gave in HK. The focus was first-time buyers and some of the things they should be watching out for in starting work in China. An updated version of this presentation will be give in Shanghai at the Global

I pray that the internet Gods won't block this--for some reason I've not been able to post for the entire last 10 days--couldn't have anything to do with a large gathering in North, could it?!Anyway, here is attempt number 239 to

More quality information from people that know how to do business in China. Here are some tips from the experts. First, from Global Sources, Bernie Holmbraker presented the 5 R’s:1. Re-learn. Realize up-front that working in China is different from buying domestically. You need to go

Quite a bit of really good information at the Global Sources Show today. The show was, as usual, packed and surprisingly the presentations had hundreds of people attend as well. Surprising only because (I was told) there were lingerie and swimsuit models downstairs in the exhibition hall (it’s a

Just another shameless plug for SRI's presentation at the Global Sources China Sourcing Fair to be held at the Asia World-Expo in Hong Kong this week. The presentation is part of Conference Program for buyers being held at the Fair. David (me) is speaking at 12:30

By now we should all be convinced that anyone doing business in China better be very involved with their suppliers. But the latest news suggests that some people still haven’t learned that lesson yet. Tainted BSA badges aside, the juicier story is now stock in worthless companies. The stock

In response to the recall issues and a discussion about them, my friend Darrin Wilkey helped my put everything into perspective. Darrin wrote:Sure China has widespread human rights issues, corruption at every level of every hierarchical organization, and a minor problem of tainting all manner of consumer products with

I'll be speaking at the China Sourcing Fair seminar about buying in China, specifically on evaluating suppliers in China, in October. The forum is the Honk Kong Asia World Expo (near the Airport) on the following dates:Friday, October 12, 2007, 12:30-3:00PMSunday, October 14, 2007,