Almost missed this little nugget o' fun:

The legal counsel hired by China's biggest beverage maker to fight a lawsuit filed by Groupe Danone in Los Angeles has quit, lawyers of the French yogurt maker said [last week]. Latham Watkins, one of the biggest law firms in the United States, officially filed a paper to a [...]

Half of my comments these days on IP issues involve industrial policy, specifically the government's plans to focus China's economic growth on creation of local IP/technology and use this as a platform to push the manufacturing and service sectors up the value ladder. You know, make more PCs instead of clothing, that sort of thing.
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The Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department seized an illegal shipment of 15 snakes and 22 lizards from Indonesia at the airport yesterday.

Grizzled veterans of the China FDI scene are often given that status after a paltry handful of years, so 15 years in the game is definitely noteworthy.

If you have been around here any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with Chris Devonshire-Ellis and China Briefing. Why is it that [...]

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has warned the public of a fake website, www.boeasiauk.com.

Here's a headline designed to freak out even the most relaxed China basher, conspiracy theorist, or Cold Warrior:

OPEC to Strengthen China Collaboration

You can almost hear the blood pressure spiking at the right-wing think tanks. This is what happens when the U.S. either ignores countries in a region [...]

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I'm still a coffee guy, but in this case I'll make an exception.

Big story out there of a possible lending freeze. I first saw this in the Asia Wall Street Journal (also picked up by All Roads Lead to China). The meat of the story is in the first two paragraphs:

Chinese authorities are slamming the brakes on bank lending, in their latest attempt to curb the runaway [...]

Beijing's Haidian District Court has sentenced a man surnamed Wu, a former security guard at China's Ministry of Information Industry, to 13 years in prison and ordered him to pay RMB30,000 in fines and compensation for the losses.