Dreaming of a Smoggy Christmas
In Beijing and 21 other cities in China, new pollution regulations came into effect as a “red alert” was declared. The red alert forces heavily polluting factories to shut down, halts some…
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Legal: Chinese Arbitration Institututions
By Arthur Dong and Darren Mayberry When a foreign company receives a Notice of Arbitration from a Chinese arbitration institution, notifying them they are listed as a respondent in a case, they…
Legal Update: China’s Cybersecurity Law
By Wei Chen After issuing three drafts for public comments during the previous two years, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the Cybersecurity Law on Nov. 7, 2016, and…
How Oriental DreamWorks Caught the China Wave
Jeffrey Towson, Professor of Investment at Peking University Guanghua School of Management and co-author of the One Hour China book Of the 19 million students in Chinese universities in 2009, over…
What Can Companies do to Prepare?
By Jennifer Sukawaty and Peter Zysk The unprecedented nature of this election has communication implications for companies across the globe, and especially for China. The country is a frequent topic in presidential…
What’s Food Security Without Food Safety?
By Curt Gaines When visiting agricultural facilities around China, I met two women with advanced university degrees. They work for a customer of ours, called the Haisheng Company, the world's biggest apple…