By Dan Harris “It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.” Bob Dylan, from Not Dark Yet In the 1990s, I represented a number of international fishing and timber and mining companies that did business with Russia. This was not so long after the fall of the Soviet Union and there were a bunch of large Russian companies — many of them formerly … [Read more...]
How China’s new cybersecurity laws can (will?) destroy your business
By Dan Harris In China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide and again in China’s New Cybersecurity System: There is NO Place to Hide we wrote how China’s new “cybersecurity” laws give the Chinese government and its prized companies full and total access to all data and IP held by foreign companies. Yesterday, in China’s New … [Read more...]
China’s new cryptography law: Still no place to hide
By Steve Dickinson The PRC National People’s Congress on October 26 enacted the long awaited Encryption Law (密码法）, which will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The official text of the law can be found here and an English language summary can be found here: The Law is another piece of the comprehensive cybersecurity system China is … [Read more...]
How a China-based buying office can add value
By Renaud Anjoran If you source and buy consumer goods from several suppliers in China, your experience probably looks like this: … [Read more...]
The four best ways to protect your IP from China
By Dan Harris In yesterday’s post, Mathew Alderson wrote about how Beijing IP Court statistics released during the UK-China IP Symposium he attended in Beijing on November 1st. Mathew concluded his post by noting the following: … [Read more...]