Posts of the Week: 3/2 - 3/9

Booz Allen/AmCham Shanghai Study Finds Key To China Success at All Roads to China
Richard Brubaker offers considerable insight to the recent study.

IP Win For Motorola at China Hearsay
Design patents, they work somewhere!

Recession after the Olympics? at 2Point6Billion
The comments add considerably to the discussion.

Trouble Ahead For Globalization at Managing the Dragon

"This is not the time for responsible politicians to be feeding America’s fears."

Foreign Direct Investment In China: It All Just Changed at China Law Blog
Steve Dickinson on the changing rules of foreign investment in China. Plus, see the response by Bill Dodson at This is China!

Debunking the Myths about Doing Business in China at China Business Law Blog
Brad Luo casts some critical key strokes upon some China "myths."

Dan Harris Writes A Lot About Registering Your TMs
Change Your Car's Oil. See Your China Trademark Lawyer.
Register Your IP In China. This Is What I'm Talkin 'Bout.

A Reason to Have Faith in China's Legal System: The Labor Contract Law at Transnational Law Blog
Travis Hodgkins gets [justifiably] critical on NPR's coverage of the Labor Contract Law.

Jeez louise department (China and right-wing bloggers) at James Fallows
Admittedly, I much prefer the Shorter version of "right wing bloggers and China" point:

"[C]ompared with a confrontation with Iraq or Iran, a military showdown with China would be 10 times as unnecessary and 100 times as stupid."

Cai Guo-Qiang, critic of collectivism at Marginal Revolution
Tyler Cowen suggests that we turn to the philosophy of Leo Strauss, father of neoconservatism, to fully understand Mr. Cai's art. Here are some on topic sentences from his Wikipedia biography:

"[P]hilosophers wrote esoterically to avoid persecution by the state or religious authority, while also being able to reach potential philosophers within the pious faithful. From this point on in his scholarship, Strauss deepened his conception of this means of communication between philosophers and “potential knowers.”

"Ultimately, Strauss believed that philosophers offered both an "exoteric" or salutary teaching and an "esoteric" or true teaching, which was concealed from the general reader."

From what I remember of Mr. Strauss, this method was also derived from Medieval religious scholars who wrote esoterically about Heaven because if the lay people knew what Heaven was, they might not be so interested in leading a pious life. For the record, Heaven was thought to be a singular existence where pious souls sang a single perfect note of bliss for eternity in praise of God. For the sake of converting the masses to Catholicism, it was easier to tell the flocks that Heaven was a cloudy place where you got to chill with all of your buddies.

Dumb and Dumberer on Trade at The Volokh Conspiracy
Echoing a lot of China blogging takes on the Democratic presidential candidates, and the possible fallout from their pandering to the good men and women of Ohio.