I am surprised to be linking to a blog that obviously has an anti-lawyer fetish, but I takes 'em as I finds 'em.
From the Overlawyered blog, which comments on why the suit against Yahoo in a U.S. federal court, alleging that Yahoo should be held accountable for what the PRC government did with user data, [...]
For those of you not working on Sunday (many of us in PRC are working this weekend so we can have the next 7 days off for the National Day holiday), you are probably bored and in need of some good econ reading.
This is one of the best posts I have seen in a long [...]
Two cases from the last few years have …
Johnson's post is one week old – my fault for waiting this long. It is well worth a read, however. If you are a population junkie or interested in the one-child policy, check out the paper by Nicholas Eberstadt.
From a social policy standpoint, I don't have much to say. I'm not into that sort of [...]
From the FT:
The Battle of Waterloo. The deaths of six US presidents. The rise of Adolf Hitler. The deflation of the Japanese bubble economy, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and even environmental destruction in the developing world.
In a new Chinese best-seller, Currency Wars , these disparate events spanning two centuries have a single [...]
My post last week about that food quality Op/Ed written by a U.S. tort lawyer sparked some interest with several folks, including quite a lengthy response (to the original article) on China Law Blog, where we get to experience a rare thing – a pissed off Dan Harris.
The strong feelings are not surprising. Look, all [...]
Put this in the category of "Methinks they doth protest too much." From Xinhua:
The World Trade Organization (WTO) decided on Tuesday to establish an expert panel to probe U.S. complaints that China was not doing enough to protect intellectual property rights (IPR), trade officials said.
The panel decision was automatically made at a meeting of [...]