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Rabbits Rejoice – End of PRC Animal Testing Requirements Nears – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub China is introducing new regulations that makes it possible to phase out animal testing for cosmetics. Shanghai-based lawyer Mark Schaub explains how NGO´s, international pressure and basic...
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Gaming companies can win now at Shanghai Free Trade Zone – Mark Schaub
MARK SCHAUB Most attention has gone to the chances of the financial industry at the new Shanghai Free Trade Zone, but while those opportunities might occur in the long term, niche markets like gaming...
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Innovation: China needs it, Israel has it – Mark Schaub
MARK SCHAUB Business between China and Israel is brisk, and that is partly caused by the fact that both economies complement each other. Where China needs innovation, Israel needs a sizable market to...
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Finally: legal rights for China´s consumers – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub Legal protection for China´s consumers was long overdue, but a revision of the existing laws might change all for the country´s consumers, writes lawyer Mark Schaub in Lexology. All depends...
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Outbound China investment experts at the China Speakers Bureau (updated)
Rupert Hoogewerf 2015 is going to be the year where outbound investments from China are going to be a major story. Not only generate IPO´s from Alibaba and JD, much capital that used to be locked up in...
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New foreign investment law: long overdue – Mark Schaub/Xu Ping
Mark Schaub Xu Ping The draft foreign investment law (FIL) is replacing the regulations from 1979. China has changed, and so a major overhaul of the law is long overdue, write lawyers Mark Schaub and...
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Foreign IT vendors fear new banking rules, and they are right – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRS) brought out last month new regulations to make online banking more safe. But foreign banking institutions and IT vendors fear exclusion from...
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Why lawyers should think twice before moving to China – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub Moving to China still seems attractive for many professionals, including lawyers. Shanghai-based lawyer Mark Schaub explains to the Law Gazette the barriers you might meet twice, and why...
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Risk management experts at the China Speakers Bureau (updated)
Paul Gillis Foreign companies fear an increasing risk in China, now the government is tightening legal supervision, fighting corruption, tightening visas and banning business practices that were...
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The future of games: bright with some clouds – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub The longstanding ban on the sale of video game consoles and games to Chinese consumers might be loosened at the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, but that does not mean everything goes, warns...
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What to do on cross-border fraud – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub Cross-border fraud in China is on the rise, says Shanghai-based lawyer Mark Schaub in Lexology. And when it happens, you should take action right away. First he paints what could happen....
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E-commerce experts at the China Speakers Bureau (updated)
Shaun Rein at a brick-and-mortar place If at any place the switch from brick-and-mortar is going fast, it is China. Permanent online consumers comment, exchange information, and buy 24/7. When you sit...
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Rules for cross-border e-commerce no reason for panic – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub The new rules on taxation of cross-border e-commerce have caused fear the government is trying to kill an increasingly lucrative industry. It was inevitable the government would start to...
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Tough rules for instant formula – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub A range of food scandals with milk powder for babies has caused a wild-west market for mainly foreign instant formula, doing good business in China. Lawyer Mark Schaub warns that regulators...
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One-Belt, One-Road: good news for some, bad news for others
One-Belt, One-Road One of the major global initiatives by China was the One-Belt, One-Road (OBOR),reviving the old silk roads. And while it is an open platform, major trade partners of China are...
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Strategy experts at the China Speakers Bureau
Ian Johnson Making sense out of China has always been challenging, although the questions companies and people have to ask themselves change permanently. From a rather uregulated booming economy, now...
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New strict regulations for infant formula – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub China has released new rules for infant formula milk powder, one of the most-discussed products after massive domestic scandals and waves of foreign imports, both legally and illegally....
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China needs revised traffic laws to push self-driving cars – Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub When Baidu CEO Robin Li was arrested by Beijing police for sitting in a self-driving car, it was obvious the country needs an update of its traffic laws, just like the US, Australia and...
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How to deal with Chinese investors?
Shaun Rein How to deal with Chinese investors? That question is asked more frequently by government agencies, startups, larger and smaller companies outside China, and even soccer clubs. Capital is...
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What do Chinese companies do different?
English: Baidu Campus, Beijing 中文: 百度的总部 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Slow, bureaucratic and not eager to innovate. In many ways Western companies seem different from their Chinese counterparts. Those...
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