NEWS BRIEF
Chinese Credit Card Market Rapidly Expanding
January 27, 2010 | Staff Writers

China’s credit card market has annually grown 54 percent the past three years and it is expected to retain an average annual growth rate of 30 percent over the next four years.

REGULATIONS
China Allows More Opportunities for U.S. Tourism Firms
January 27, 2010 | Staff Writers

The Commerce Department and the China National Tourism Administration have agreed to expand market opportunities for American companies in China. The plan, which will be implemented by the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) Tourism Working Group, builds on a 2007 bilateral agreement to expand travel between the United States and China.

NEWS BRIEF
Chinese Counterfeit Goods - How to Protect Your firm
January 8, 2010 | Thomas Stiebel, Hillary Wucherer and Karen Dickinson

This past March the Chinese Supreme Court issued guidelines for implementing the 2008 China National Intellectual Property Strategy, which calls for China to greatly increase its IP rights protection by 2020. While these guidelines are

RISK MANAGEMENT
What You Should Know About CFIUS
November 24, 2009 | Karen Dickinson and Matt Vogel

CFIUS, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, is composed of representatives from federal agencies such as the Department of Defense, Department of State and Department of Homeland Security, and has the authority to review transactions involving foreign buyers when the transactions potentially affect