The Dragon Business Network Blog did a post, entitled, "7 Tips for Business Travel to China." Believing both that one was missing and that eight is a lucky number, I added one more.  

Here are the original seven:
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Excellent post by Rich Brubaker of the All Roads Lead to China blog on his discussion with Neal Beatty entitled, "Identifying, Measuring, and Taking Action on the Risks of China." It is the kind of post every company doing business in or even with China should read.  

The post sets out an amazingly comprehensive (yet blissfully concise) list of risks businesses face in China:
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Far from the Gulf of Mexico, environmental campaigners are accusing energy companies of destroying land and livelihoods in the search for increasingly scarce resources. Richard Wachman and Jon Stibbs report.

The eyes of the world are on BP after the April disaster that left massive amounts of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. But campaigners accuse Big Oil of an appalling track record elsewhere in the world, saying it leaves a trail of devastation in its wake.
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A project to flush sediment from the Yellow River has been hailed as a technological and environmental triumph. But, writes Meng Si, local communities are at risk.

I remember China’s olden days, when pizza was served with plastic gloves to prevent the client’s disgust from having to eat the pizza by hand. The Chinese, see, don’t eat with their hands. That was only nine years ago. Last night, I was in Pizza Hut (once again I failed to find a sushi bar

I had a nice meeting with a potential client today. They import products from China into France, for two stable customers. We got to talk about liability insurance. Wikipedia describes it as “a part of the general insurance system of risk financing to protect the purchaser (the “insured”) from the risks of liabilities imposed by [...]
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In what could be its biggest get yet, China's leading sportswear brand, Li Ning, signed NBA rookie Evan Turner to an endorsement deal Monday. Turner, the 2010 NCAA National Player of the Year, was selected second overall in the draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Risk.  Everyone in China is exposed to it.  Some recognize it, and act on it, better than others This was the topic of several conversations between myself and Neal Beatty (Regional Director, Global Client Services for Control Risks).  In some ways it was a followup to the interview I did of Dane Chamorro, his colleague, [...]
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Chengdu subway fever is getting more intense! In the latest development, the Chengdu Metro Corporation staged a media event to debut the uniforms that the subway staff will sport come October.
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