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Timely blog entries from our China office help you keep in touch with the current business climate in Asia.

Like Junior Soprano claims, “things like this come in 3’s.”  Maybe it’s true.
For the first time today I saw a Bangkok license plate on a car in China.  (I can’t upload the photo for some reason, you’ll just have to believe me that I saw it.)  Now I know that the Bangkok traffic is a [...]

Here’s an interesting twist on the question: “where do you want to be?”
OBAMA:  “Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now and the Olympics.  Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure.  Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now, which means if you’re [...]

So let me get this straight…
1.    If my factory makes a mistake I get stuck paying for it or lose my deposit or go to court just to get what I contracted for?  Right.
2.    If my factory can’t hit the quality standards specified I get stuck with lower quality goods, or no goods and no [...]

I’m really trying to get past the 0lympics, but there were just so many good quotes and pieces that I’m still referring to some of them. But this post is about how attitude affects business, and only slightly related to the 0lympics.
Great article by Orville Schell on what the 0lympics could mean for [...]

So now that it’s all over, what’s next?
First a couple of comments on the 0lympics and then some application to doing business here.
I’ve said for 8 years—this will be the best Olympics ever—and it appears that it was.  Was there any other choice?  With more police than foreigners in the capital, control of the weather, [...]

I’ve written a number of times about Inland Western China vs. Eastern Coastal China and the advantage and disadvantages of each and how to decide where to locate.  There are certainly hundreds of other city and country specific comparison pieces online too.  Some of the best are at the All Roads Lead to China blog, [...]