Mark Schaubby Fons1 via FlickrChina has announced in September new details for the Labor Contract Law that was introduced at the beginning of 2008. Shanghai-based lawyer Mark Schaub, partner at China’s largest law firm King&Wood, will explain the effects of the new regulation in a podcast we will record laterRead More →
Mark Schaub He still drinks Chinese milk, says lawyer and author Mark Schaub in a discussion with Fons Tuinstra of the China Speakers Bureau on the ongoing milk melamine scandal in China. “The bigger companies were trusted too much and when it come to food security, you cannot trust anybody.”MarkRead More →
Mark Schaub What is happening behind the doors of the dairy industry? While the headlines of the milk scandal get more worrying by the day, very few people have a good insight in what is happening behind the doors of that industry.Lawyer and successful author Mark Schaub, and not surprisinglyRead More →
Mark Schaub a partner at King & Wood and Mallesons, the largest law firm in China and Australia combined. He is a prolific speaker who wastes no time in avoiding the real challenges in doing business in China.
As a lawyer he had extensive experience in negotiating deals, firing people and otherwise dealing with the ignorance of companies entering the Chinese business minefield. He travels from ShanghaiRead More →
The question of when China might end its rigid zero-Covid policy is already for two years on the agenda. While a large part of the rest of the world has been helped by a rigorous vaccination program and ended most of the Covid measures, Goldman Sachs expects an end in China at best during the second quarter of 2023, according to this report by Bloomberg.Read More →
After being derailed by the coronavirus crisis, the trade war seemed to have been lower on the political agenda for a while. But that was only short-lived. Making sense out of what the world’s first and second-largest economies will do will only be slightly easier. A few speakers at ourRead More →
Digital transformation is key in the planning of companies, governments, and individuals, as the world is changing beyond recognition. But for the world outside China, it often remains unclear how the most innovative country is going to influence their digital future. Speakers at the China Speakers Bureau can help youRead More →
From a cash country, where transactions were done by moving plastic bags with money between bank branches, China has turned into a leading force in fintech or financial technology. Mobile payments are standard. Bitcoins and blockchain technology found in China early adopters. Social media have – more than anywhere inRead More →
Outbound investments have become a major feature in China’s economy now its domestic growth is – relatively – stalling. A few of our speakers at the China Speakers Bureau focus on the development of outbound investments. Major disasters, including the restructuring of major Chinese firms who took too large risksRead More →
China’s position in the world is changing fast, and in e-commerce that change is paramount. Alibaba’s new retail, Tencent’s expanding WeChat and financial services: no day passes by without major developments in this industry. As Artificial Intelligence kicks in, logistics, self-driving cars, and international initiatives become more important at e-commerce.Read More →
Digital transformation is key in the planning of companies, governments, and individuals, as the world is changing beyond recognition. But for the world outside China, it often remains unclear how the most innovative country is going to influence their digital future. Speakers at the China Speakers Bureau can help youRead More →
Making sense out of China has always been challenging, although the questions companies and people have to ask themselves change permanently. From a rather unregulated booming economy, now dealing we a tsunami of new rules, anti-corruption and a – relatively – slowing economy changes the strategic questions you have toRead More →