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In what might be the regulation that slipped through the traditional media wires, Jay Boyle of EXPAT CFO just forwarded me a potential bombshell of a regulation where China will look to tax all those offshore transactions that investors have come to rely upon when setting up their China vehicles. … and it went into [...]

Wanted to alert everyone to a new Ernst and Young report on Indirect TAxin that is worth the read for everyone.  It is a subject that I have covered here at times when the policies were changing, and this is one of the best reports I have seen to date on how companies view the [...]

Good friend, and frequent commenter, Jay Boyle once said that “Guanxi either retires or goes to jail“, and over the past few years in particular we have begun seeing this as Beijing clamps down on a number of officials for graft. Most recently the removals of Shenzhen Mayor Xu Zongheng and Pi Qiansheng Binhai New [...]

Following the announcement that China plans to establish social security number system,news that China has drafted its first law on social insurance came soon after. According to the article: It specifies a common right for citizens, urban and rural alike, to pay premiums and enjoy social insurance for medical care, work injuries, unemployment and childbirth. [...]

China Briefing has just posted SAFE Issues New Regulations to Further Control Foreign Exchange Movement, which confirms the worst case scenario I ran through in my post earlier this month The Next Problem for China’s Exporters: SAFE Regulations. Confirming what, Michael Pettis’s warned about in his post Hot weather, cold market, I made a trip [...]

For those of you who were alseep last year, there was an issue related to quality control and product safety that rocked US consumers and gave everyone at CNN something to talk about. My position at the time was that it was firms like Mattel and FTS tire Import who were to blame for not [...]

Good friend of mine sent me an email this morning alerting me to an issue that they were discussing, the SAFE regulations that are set to hit the market next week. Where he ended the email with: As for the new SAFE regulations for monitoring forex from trade, they don’t take effect until July 14. [...]

In my post Summer 2007: A Catalyst for Environment Change in China I predicted: The summer of 2007, will be shown as a turning point in China’s development and unfortunately for one client, I found out last week that I was right, and their proposed investment in a East coast city is still in a [...]