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Buying from China? What you need to know – Shanghai Jan. 12-15 2011
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyThe China Sourcing Information Center has recently partnered with Global Sources to host the New Buyer’s Conferences at various Global Sources’ shows worldwide. January 12-15, Global Sources’ New Buyers conference was in Shanghai. Mike Bellamy attended the show and gave the presentations which you can view below. Fundamentals of China Sourcing Speaker: Mike Bellamy Chairman, […]
Quality control in China: Another great graphic from Renaud
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyRenaud Anjoran provides a tremendous service to the world with his Quality Inspection Tipsblog. Yes, our sister company, Asia Quality Focus, technically competes with Renaud’s company in the 3rd party inspection space, but Asia’s a mighty big place and he’s a fine fellow who has a real knack for blogging and a genuine skill for […]
Trade shows in China & Holiday Schedule for PassageMaker – 2011
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyAs part of the China Sourcing Information Center (CSIC) booth, PassageMaker will be exhibiting at various trade shows in China as listed below. PassageMaker staff will also be hosting level 100, 200 and advanced level 300 sourcing seminars at each of the shows in conjunction with www.GlobalSources.com. The shows and seminars are free to attend. […]
Assorted dumplings and fried goodness, plus lots and lots of meat (including horse and donkey meat)
/1 Comment/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI had the opportunity to speak to a group of students the other day about doing business in China and Asia in general. As always, the subject of food and alcohol came up. I explained the business banquet and the rules of consumption, which in my experience are: There is no such thing as a […]
Introducing our new Tool and Die Steward service
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyDan Harris of the China Law Blog has a great post today, “How To Protect Your Molds And Tooling In China“. If you are not already a subscriber, you ought to take a minute to become one. Money ‘graph: If you do not take the right steps with your Chinese Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) before […]
How I love Taiwan
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyA very interesting article on the recent elections in Taiwan. I lived there in 1998 and miss it a bit everyday. My experience in Taiwan tells me that the folks in Beijing should not fear the animal spirits of democracy. The CCP has done an amazing job of creating the conditions for economic growth; self-evident […]
Back in the saddle again
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI haven’t blogged in the last few weeks because I’ve been moving. Sometime over a beer I will tell you the whole profanity-laced version of why we had to move, of why we had to move in such a short period of time, from a house with heat into one without, from a house with […]
been a while
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyNot that I have the readership of other bloggers out there, but I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’d love to say that I’ll be posting once or twice a week, but I can’t say that and still maintain my impressive record of honesty. So I guess I can do a bit […]
Election Night Predictions!
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyIn honor of my friend, Morgan Griffith, who just defeated 14-term incumbent Rick Boucher in the Virgina 9th Congressional District, let me make the following brief prediction. Morgan will be a good and responsible Congressman. He will stay true to himself and not become enamored of life in Washington, DC. We will all miss him […]
A picture is worth a thousand words
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyRenaud Anjoran has done it again with a beautiful cartoon showing the steps involved in a typical random inspection. His blog is a great resource and this is the type of simple graphic communication I hope to move to on the PassageMaker website. Now that trade show season is almost over, I am hoping that […]