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Food Fights, More Toy Recalls, and Guanxi 2007-08-26 10:27:43 Food Fights (subscription required) by James Rice An Op-ed piece in the Wall Street journal, James Rice (head of Tyson Foods China) addresses a nunmber of core issues related to the recent tit-for-tat product recalls between the U.S. and China. The message that readers need to take away from this is that these disputes have become poltical, and that is dangerous. That instead of politicans getting involved an inflaming the issues, cool heads need to look at each case Toy Story (part II): Mattel Recalls Again–and Apologizes… and “We knew about the situation” from the China Blog at Time addresses in detail the second Mattel recall earlier this week. Coming not from Mattel itself, but from the Consumer Products Safety commission, this recall once again rocked consumer’s confidence in China’s brand. Where most coverage has failed to date is to show that the magnets themselves were designed by Mattel, and their failure was not of the supplier, but of Mat ...

iPhone: Made In Shenzhen, Assembled by Foxconn 2007-08-26 10:27:41 the iPhone is quite simply the reason I believed in Apple as a company 18 months ago when I bought shares. As I have mentioned on a number of occasions, it is its telecommunicationally challenged brother the iPod that has been a form of rechargeable sanity for most of my time in China… and that is why when I saw a few posts on the iPhone supply chain I had to write this post. Beginning with the recent Foxconn article in the WSJ, and my resulting post, I then stumbled upon Spendmatters’s Apple’s iPod Supply Chain post, which lead me to TEXYT’s article iPhone: Who’s the Real Manufacturer, which then took me the to Shumla’s post entitled The Apple iPhone Supply Chain, source of this diagram (more…) Read Original Post Here ... Iphone

Chengdu in the News: August 2007-08-26 10:27:41 It’s that time again, and for those of you who are looking to keep up with the news in Chengdu you will not be disappointed.  There is a lot of investment going on. EMC set up its 7th solution center with investment of RMB 50 million yuan The world’s biggest IT storage company - EMC Corporation announced in May its collaboration with Sichuan Yinhai Software Co. Ltd to set up EMC China Solution Center (Chengdu), which is the seventh after the ones EMC established in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Taipei in China. EMC have invested nearly RMB 50 million yuan in equipments to build up the center’s demo testing platform. This center will bring in western regions of China the world’s leading information basic infrastructure demo, testing and application environment, and provide anti-disaster centers for clients’ key business data. Israeli CTC Group to build a 40,000-square-meters’ mall in Chengdu As is revealed, Israeli CTC Group through its Chinese ...

Foxconn: Behind the Scenes 2007-08-26 10:27:40 A few years ago while working on a project for a global OEM in the construction equipment industry, I spent a week at the Bauma show in Shanghai interviewing 70+ OEMs and component suppliers who were showing off their products. It was a very tiring week, but what I came away with was that this was an industry that would one day be dominated by Chinese OEMs. There were already 4-5 very strong Chinese firms with in-house technologies, but more importantly maybe only 2-3 of those would have been considered a threat by the likes of Caterpillar, Kobel, Cummins, Bobcat, Parker Hannifin, or any of the other global OEMs (including my client). Many of the firms were flying under the radar while they collected technologies, built service platforms, and entered 3rd markets in Africa, India, and Eastern Europe. the advances were measured, the splashes caused few ripples, but once the market was lost… it was lost forever. for these firms, the element of surprise was key, and critical to th ...

Suzhou’s Investment Zones 2007-08-26 10:27:40 Due in large part to its proximity to Shanghai, Suzhou was one of the first regional cities that foreign companies looked to setup manufacturing. More and more foreign companies are continuing to move to Suzhou to open new factories as the prices of land and labor costs are lower. For Suzhou, a city that has planned their economy to support and benefit from the growth in Shanghai, the foresight and planning has paid off. Many foreign executives located in Shanghai look to Suzhou before anywhere else for further investment in the south as operations can be managed from Shanghai if need. However, the city is also very suitable to supporting an expatriate lifestyle, and many project managers are opting to move to Suzhou full time Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP): Perhaps the most well known investment park in the foreign community, SIP is a joint venture between the Singapore and Suzhou governments. Since being established in 1994, the Singapore—Suzhou Industrial Park has att ...

New Poll: Who Really Needs Whom? 2007-08-26 10:27:39 Within the last week, the stories about how China could and would flatten the USD through a dumping of the debt have been widely reported in the media. China’s Threat to the Dollar is Real, China’s economic leverage, Big guns wheeled out in US-China war of words, etc. so.. this week I would like to know who needs whom most? Who would feel the pain more should this option occur, and how wide would the impact be felt? Would the U.S. economy be able to withstand the pressure, or would a severe recession take hold? Without the U.S. economy, would the Chinese economy be able to survive and expand at the 10%+ it has been…. or would it slide back into the 90s? for those that have more opinion than our vote box will allow, write in with your projections. Surely, with other headlines like China expresses confidence in U.S. dollar and China Promises Not To ‘Nuke’ Greenback, this is purely an academic exercise… right? Read Original Post Here ...

Even More Real Estate Regulations in the Pipeline 2007-08-26 10:27:38 Further to my post last week More Real Estate Hurdles Coming Soon for Investor in China, comes the even more ominous China Daily story China tightens rules on foreign property investors. According to the article: China is tightening its grip once more on foreign investors in Chinese real estate, banning them from borrowing offshore in the latest effort to tame property prices and cool the economy. The new rule, set out in a circular from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange , could squeeze foreign investors who take advantage of lower interest rates outside China. 18 months ago, I actually was working on a case that had offshore structure and financing through low interest loans in the States.  With the appreciating RMB, the client was looking at not only a RMB appreciation that would offset the interest payments, their leveraged return was significantly higher (double digit difference) than if they had leveraged in China. This was a result of interest rates in the U.S. bei ...

China Raises the Stakes, A Comrade in Arms, and USCBC Export Stats 2007-08-26 10:27:38 China threatens to trigger US dollar crash @ Daily Telegraph this article (and other like it) are inflammatory, assuming a lot, meant to sub salt in open sores, and are generally something I would dismiss as just another ad generator (China bashing is popular)… but this article (and others like it) are important for everyone in the U.S., in China, Sourcing from China, selling into China, or has a U.S. dollar denominated asset, and it is because China will flush the dollar down the drain, but because the RMB is gaining strength, and by studying the worst case scenario, executives will be able to plan for the steady she goes scenario. Personal Responsibility in China Exporting @ Silk Road International For the last few weeks, I have begun feeling a bit lonely in my views that firms need to start accepting the fact that they are responsible for maintaining the integrity of their supply chain, and their brand. However, Silk Road has come out with a very well written, and well balanc ...

Beyond Monitoring: Building a Sustainable Supply Chain in China 2007-08-26 10:27:36 Business or Social Responsibility has come out with an excellent 20 page brief entitled Beyond Monitoring (PDF download here). A very timely piece, the article does an excellent job of showing the reader the various angles and approaches that a company must take in building a sustainable supply chain… something Mattel Toys did years ago, something RC2 wished they had done, and something you should be looking at as you assess your supply chain risks “Beyond Monitoring” presents a four-part approach that is designed to address the root causes of social and environmental shortcomings in global supply chains. Our objective in producing this paper is to encourage companies to remake strategies, redeploy resources and consider new partnerships in pursuit of a model that has the potential to achieve more lasting change. The approach we are advocating integrates labor and environmental considerations more fully into companies’ procurement efforts. It also seeks ...

Excuse my Absence.. I have been in Suzhou, Tianjin, and Beiijing 2007-08-25 13:25:10 While it may seem impossible, for the first time in 6 months I failed to write a single post for 5 days.  Of course, I have had a good reason….. Fly to Beijing (12 hours), drive to Tianjin and visit parks with clients 36 hours, fly to Shangahi then drive to Suzhou (36 hours), a day in Shanghai to meet engineers and laywers (24 hours), back to Beijing for conference (72 hours), and finally back to Shanghai. Before I am back on board fully, I need to ease back into things slowly and have found this Youtube clip to help me out. For those that have not seen for themselves the growth in China,  it may sometimes be hard to comprehend what one is reading online or in print.  My return to Beijing this week after about 18 months was another reminder of just how quickly things change… and my visit to Tianjin provided a glimpse of just how much change is left to be seen. What I really enjoy about this movie, besides the music (turn up the volume), is that whoever put this clip to ...

“Made In China”: Managing The Backlash, Protecting The Brand 2007-08-24 21:05:05 Every day seems to bring more misery for the “Made in China” label. I have recently reported on a range of poisonous and dangerous goods from China that have resulted in corporate recalls and consumer fears. In a damage-limitation exercise, China recently appointed Vice-Premier Wu Yi to head a team to manage the crisis. Now it is reported (by Bloomberg) that a four-month quality campaign is being launched: “China, under pressure to improve the quality of exports ranging from food to toys, will run a four- month campaign to weed out defective products and repair the damage to the nation’s brands, the government said. The campaign from September through December covers farm produce, processed and retail food, catering, drugs, pork, imports and exports, appliances and toys that affect health, the central government said on its Web site yesterday. “This is a special battle to protect the interest and health of the masses, the prestige of Chinese products and our nation& ...

China Law Reporter Looking for Articles 2007-08-24 06:19:53 Qiang Bjornbak, editor of the ABA’s China Law Reporter, is soliciting articles on two timely topics. 1. China’s much anticipated anti-monopoly law: its major features and potential for influence upon unfair competition behaviors, such as price fixing. 2. Product safety issues. Ideally, CLR is looking for two articles on this subject — “one from a lawyer from the Chinese perspective and one from a non-China-based lawyer taking the importer’s perspective. Lots of topic possibilities with this one. For further information, contributors should contact Qiang directly with their proposal. Read Original Post Here ... Articles

Hong Kong Opens to Chinese Investors 2007-08-23 00:32:55 China said it would allow individual investors to directly trade in Hong Kong-listed securities. News of the pilot program, announced by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, helped send Hong Kong shares up 5.9%. Many analysts believe the broadening of options for Chinese investors could lead them to put more money in Hong Kong stocks, such as China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. Read Original Post Here ...

Eli Lilly, Chi-Med Team Up on Cancer Drugs 2007-08-23 00:32:54 Eli Lilly & Co. announced it will work with a unit of Hutchison China MediTech Ltd., known as Chi-Med, to develop drugs to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases. Lilly will hand over preclinical research and development on several compounds to the pharmaceuticals company. Chi-Med, which is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market, is a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. Read Original Post Here ... Cancer

Chinese Stocks Stay Hot Amid Global Market Chill 2007-08-23 00:32:54 World-wide credit concerns that started with the U.S. mortgage market have driven down nearly every significant global stock index this month except for the Shanghai Composite Index. The Chinese market has been insulated by strict capital controls that largely prevent international investors from buying domestic Chinese stocks-and that tightly limit overseas investing by Chinese. Read Original Post Here ...