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Cross-cultural blog China / USA primarily aimed at business people interested in trade between the two nations, but with good general interest items, too. Author is communications director for international firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with a network office in Beijing, China.

This was a wonderful experience. It was the first visit of clients from China to our company in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. I worked for a couple of months on organizing a very tight four-day schedule of site visits to our projects, and many other things, and it seems like the actual visit went by  [...]

Have you ever used Baidu? Or Acoona? How about Sohu or Yisou?
 
According to one source, these are a few of the most popular Chinese language search engines. A complete of the “most popular” ones from that same source includes:
 
Baidu www.baidu.com
Acoona www.accoona.cn
Sohu www.sohu.com
Yisou www.yisou.com
Sogou www.sogou.com
Google China www.google.cn
Sina www.sina.com.cn
3721.com www.3721.com
Yahoo cn.yahoo.com
NetEase www.163.com
 
I was messing around on [...]

Work has kept me terribly busy these last few weeks (even more busy than usual).
A visit by 65 students from Shanghai last Tuesday was one special event into which many long hours of preparation went. The students are in their last semester in the E-MBA program with Washington University’s Olin Business School Shanghai campus. They came to St. [...]

University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL) publishes a magazine twice a year, and the fall issue arrived in my mailbox at home last week. One of the stories is about Susan Brownell, a St. Louis anthropologist and professor at UMSL, who spent a year in Bejing studying the Olympics. Dr. Brownell’s area of specialty [...]

It’s sad to see what greedy, unprincipled behavior in the US securities markets is causing world wide. I hope everyone involved in the “market-backed securities” investment hoax is rounded up and strung up.
Not only has the US job market tanked (the company I work for had its first layoffs in 25 years, plus pay cuts [...]

I think what was done in the poorly regulated US financial markets with the repackaged mortgage-backed securities should be a treasonable offense.
China Daily news story from November 20, 2008, paints sobering picture of the effects of the now-global economic crisis in the People’s Republic of China.
China admits employment in “grim situation” 
      

You either already know this stuff and are doing business in China, or you need to know this stuff if you plan to!  Nothing gets done by foreign business without the approval and involvement of a ministry and its staff. Order your copies online and when you get them find a quiet place to dig in.
 “2008-2009 [...]

This statement is attributed to NPC Standing Committee vice-chairman Li Jianguo in a recent news story, linked below. The article says, “The laws to be reviewed, and to be incorporated into the social law system within the next five years include ones on mental health, social rescue and relief, and charity.” This article made me [...]

China issues new rules and regulations constantly on everything from trade to visas to foreign journalists. The best way I’ve found to stay at least aware of some of these things is via the English version of the Web site for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
You could spend a whole day on [...]

Per the CIPA Web site, “Investment Promotion Agency of Ministry of Commerce (CIPA) is engaged in Chinese investment promotion process and in charge of “Inviting in” (FDI in China) and “Going global” (outbound investment) two-way investment promotion work.”
 
If there’s anything you would want to know about this subject that is not on this Web [...]