Great deal of news recently about the EU-ish plans of ASEAN, Korea, Japan and China. Will we ever have an EU analog in Asia?
Many folks in the US are scared as hell at the possibility, worrying that Asia might move on towards consolidation and minimize the US's Asia power.
Hollywood to the rescue. If this movie [...]

No, this isn't another one of my "Rule of Law" posts. A bit more esoteric, I'm afraid.
I was reading Michael Gerson's latest Washington Post column this evening, a profile of Harvard University prof Michael Sandel and his teachings on moral philosophy, and as usual I thought first of China and economic development.
OK, first an excerpt:
Sandel [...]

Does this make any sense at all?
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) and other members of Congress are pressing the administration to take a firmer stand with China on its currency policies.
Ryan’s legislation punishing China for devaluing its currency has gained little momentum in this Congress, even though criticism of China’s currency policy has [...]

IP Dragon was attending yesterday evening the very inspiring lecture of Professor David Llewelyn at the University of Hong Kong, about the importance of intellectual property rights for not only experts, but everybody.Professor Llewelyn made clear that…

Two years ago I blogged about the gerrymandered National People's Congress ("gerrymandered" is not really the right word, but what's done is done) in which, by formal legislative design, there are four times as many delegates from urban areas as…

A 66-year-old cyclist was killed in a traffic accident in Sau Mau Ping this morning.

Just saw this
article in Legal Week about Weil Gotshal poaching 2 corporate partners in Hong Kong. Seems like the perfect time to pick up some more partner level attorneys: when the economy is down, but supposedly getting better. Article after the jump.

Weil Gotshal & Manges has boosted its Asia practice with a [...]