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David vs. Goliath (a.k.a. my former employer) Part 4 cont’d

By: david | Posted on July 18, 2010

The Great Fapiao Quest of 2010 cont’d Just for clarification. A fapiao is like a tax receipt. Basically the Chinese government has some difficulty in … Continue reading →

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David vs. Goliath (a.k.a. my former employer) Part 4

By: david | Posted on July 18, 2010

The Great Fapiao quest of 2010 So after V and I tried to professionally discuss issue #11 (as we called it), we did as … Continue reading →

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David vs. Goliath (a.k.a. my former employer) Part 3

By: david | Posted on July 18, 2010

Always read the fine print folks Within Part 1 of this series of blogs I mentioned my skill in reading and finding important stuff … Continue reading →

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David vs. Goliath (a.k.a my former employer) Part 2

By: david | Posted on July 18, 2010

Do It Yourself I had no idea that 2 little pieces of paper would take so much effort to obtain. You know in the … Continue reading →

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David vs. Goliath (a.k.a. my former employer) Part 1

By: david | Posted on July 16, 2010

Complications Well the day has come. I’ve finally started my internship with PassageMaker (PM) and China Sourcing Information Center (CSIC). As I said in … Continue reading →

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Some miscellaneous articles

By: whit | Posted on May 27, 2010

Feeling lazy today. Sometimes the juices ain’t flowing. In no particular order: MSNBC – Clinton says world must respond to N. Korea Financial Times – … Continue reading →

Posted in Whit's China Business Blog | Tagged American business environment, china assembly, China business, china development, china economics, China labor, china medical assembly, china packaging, china quality control, china shipping, China Sourcing, china trade, china vendor coordination, chinese environmental policy, chinese pollution | Leave a comment

China’s Mexico is inside China

By: whit | Posted on May 26, 2010

This analogy has a number of problems with it (like most analogies), but I got the point the first time I heard Mike Bellamy make … Continue reading →

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