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The Big Fish
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyThere is a great chain of Japanese restaurants in China called Tairyo, in Chinese, 大鱼, dàyú or “Big Fish”. I love Japanese food and DaYu has a simply insane deal – all you can eat, all you can drink (including beer, wine, sake, fresh fruit juices, etc.) for 150 RMB. Or about US$22. To put […]
The Shanghai show has begun
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyThe latest Global Sources Trade Fair is underway in Shanghai. Sadly, I could not make this one, but the PassageMaker / China Quality Focus booth is there, staffed by personnel speaking English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian. Stop by booth # 3A55 and meet our team and make the time to participate in Mike […]
This is just cool…
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyHere’s a fun article about how they printed the Iron Man suit. This was posted on the “Additive Manufacturing (AM) – Rapid Prototyping (RP), Tooling and Manufacturing” group on LinkedIn. Normally, I’m so tired by reading the group name I never get much farther than that, but thankfully today I persevered. I’ve been fascinated by […]
China’s Mexico is inside China
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyThis analogy has a number of problems with it (like most analogies), but I got the point the first time I heard Mike Bellamy make it. Too many American industries rely on illegal labor to remain cost competitive, thus the constant drama on the border issue. The China nearly every Westerner sees is the coastal […]
Some miscellaneous articles
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyFeeling lazy today. Sometimes the juices ain’t flowing. In no particular order: MSNBC – Clinton says world must respond to N. Korea Financial Times – US warns over Beijing’s ‘assertiveness’ DER SPIEGEL – Interview with Economist Nouriel Roubini: ‘We Will Have Even More Crises in the Future’ (hat tip Matt) Real Clear Politics – Depression […]
More comments on “Sheer Import Genius” and a great post from Renaud
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyRenaud Anjoran is a fine fellow who runs an excellent blog about quality control in China. I’ve linked to him in the past, and he’s returned the favor. He commented on my recent post, “Sheer Import Genius“. This led me to read two excellent posts on the the good and bad trading companies in China. […]
Great China Law Blog post related to “Sheer Import Genius”
/2 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyA most excellent post on the importance of protecting your supply chain from Dan Harris of the (most excellent) China Law Blog. If you are not a subscriber, you should be. He is kind enough to link to my post yesterday, “Sheer Import Genius“. The importance of contracts and compartmentalizing your supply chain cannot be […]
Not (entirely) Safe For Work weekend post
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyChinaSMACK is a window into the bizarre world of the Chinese internet. I regularly link to the oddities found therein. And while it is a window into a foreign world, it only provides snapshots that titillate and excite conversation on Chinese chat-rooms. Thus it is often the equivalent of watching helicopter footage of police car […]
Sheer Import Genius
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamySo…did you know that your shipping information is in the public domain? I’ll step up and admit I didn’t. What’s worse, now that Import Genius is out there, finding your competition’s suppliers is as easy as using a search engine. Anything imported into the USA is a matter of public record, including the exporter (i.e., […]
China’s other revolution
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI remember hearing the term “monk hotels” when I lived in Taiwan. By that they meant that these hotels did not allow a foreign visitor to bring a “new wife” home with them for the night. These hotels were already anachronisms in Taipei 12 years ago when I lived there, but China was far more […]