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When a country is big, there can be a lot of cultural variation. You don't find grits in the northern tier states. At the same time, you don't find hot dish in the south. This can make for some intriguing business challenges for small companies seeking to expand their...

Under the control of President Xi Jinping, China has in the past five years witnessed an upsurge in the fight against corruption. This devoted struggle has translated directly to a rise in profitability margins of companies that had been weighed down by the vice....

Could the operational environment for cooperative business ventures between Chinese and U.S. companies be in for some closer scrutiny? That's what some legal experts are predicting in the wake of charges filed in a high profile case under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt...

One of the biggest differences anyone from the United States faces when trying to engage in business in China deals with culture. While U.S. business is generally rooted in an understanding of terms spelled out in contracts, those with experience in the ways of China...

A Chinese law intended to tighten Cybersecurity within that country's borders are now in effect. We wrote about this development earlier this year, just ahead of its formal enactment. That post provided a general overview of the burden it would place on foreign...

According to a survey released in January 2017 by the American Chamber of Commerce in China, U.S. companies have already started to reconsider doing business in China for a number of reasons. The labyrinth of regulatory hurdles, the ever-increasing...

If you have ever heard the phrase, "the devil is in the detail," you have one nugget of simple wisdom for how to protect your intellectual property when doing business in China. As we noted in one previous post, Chinese law on trademarks can be complicated and...

How much market access U.S. companies have to China varies based on industry. China has special market access restrictions for some industries. Among the restrictions China sometimes uses are limits on what percentage of ownership foreign firms can have in Chinese...

Here in the U.S., a big shopping day is coming up in just a couple of weeks, Black Friday. China, however, will be seeing a big shopping event even sooner, this upcoming weekend in fact. This is Singles Day, which is Nov. 11. It has grown into a major day of online...

Many things can have impacts on U.S. companies, large and small, that do business in China. Among these are the overall policy focuses of the Chinese government. It appears that the Chinese government may be undergoing a policy focus shift that could have big...