All Roads Lead to China:

Good friend, and old China Hand, Jay Boyle of Expat CFO sat down with me last Friday to discuss due diligence in China. Having personally worked with Jay, what I always enjoyed from afar was the way he and his team can model  out financial information.  Whether it is a hotel in Ningbo,  a start [...]

Last week, Charlie McElwee from Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey sat down with me to discuss environmental law in China.  Charlie is someone I met through the What if, What Else, and What are the Odds roundtables I put together last year, and ever since I have been following his blog China Environmental Law. One of [...]

By now, everyone reading this post knows my love for Youtube. In the last 12 months, tons of new high quality China specific content has been posted, and I find it to be really useful when I want to see what is going on at large conferences and events. Well… if the analysts are right, [...]

One thing I love about Youtube, is you really can find anything. (Note: if you are in China, the Youtube videos below will not be visible without the use of a proxy service.) Recently, my work has taken me to Suzhou quite a bit. the area really has improved dramatically over the last 5 years, [...]

Why Lou Dobbs Scares Me More Than Chinese Toothpaste was a post I wrote early on in the days of “Made In China”. My position was that while there were certainly problems in the supply chain, Lou Dobbs (and other like him) were actually far worse because of their predatory reporting. Far from being balanced, [...]