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		<title>Reasons why a factory doesn’t want you to come see things.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I get to the post today, everyone working in China should read this great article on corrupt QC (h/t China Law Blog).
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We’ve been extremely busy both before and after the CNY break.  As we get back into factories to do QC and project management some factories are more helpful than others scheduling visits. I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/03/05/reasons-why-a-factory-doesn%e2%80%99t-want-you-to-come-see-things/</link>
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		<title>Reading the (Western) Media on China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE, 01/03/10: Apple Admits Child labour was Used to Build iPods and iPhones in Chinese Factories.
This is at best an (educated) guess but at worse a lie&#8211;Apple did not admit this.  From the article:
The exact location of the factories has not been identified. Apple has  factories which supply parts in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/02/26/reading-the-western-media-on-china/</link>
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		<title>Under-promise, Over-deliver, Part II, Vietnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’m sitting in a factory office outside of HCM city as the factory General Manager is talking with another client.   The inevitable discussion about product quality and how the production doesn’t match the samples comes up and the conversation starts to get heated.  The client is arguing that because of the samples he expects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/02/23/under-promise-over-deliver-part-ii-vietnam/</link>
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		<title>Even if it&#8217;s not your fault&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On of the things that I’ve learned, the hard way, about doing business in China is that as a (foreign) buyer when there are problems, even if they’re not my fault, I’m going to be asked to pay for them.
For me, this is the single most exasperating thing about working in China (and Vietnam and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/02/03/even-if-its-not-your-fault/</link>
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		<title>Famous Chinese Brands and other things you&#8217;ve never heard of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article started a discussion on the China Law Blog LinkedIn group.  Since I participated a bit (and I thought I summed it up nicely, &#8220;if I do say so my damn self&#8220;) I thought I&#8217;d share my comments here.
Interesting article.  Convoluted point.  My ten cents:
1. He&#8217;s right that Chinese brands aren&#8217;t famous in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/01/29/famous-chinese-brands-and-other-things-youve-never-heard-of/</link>
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		<title>Yea, but I&#8217;m not a Billion Dollar Global Giant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Google controversy is truly fascinating, unless it’s directly impacting your ability to do business it really doesn’t matter exactly why Google says they might be leaving China.  For most people it doesn’t even matter if they leave China or not.  (For the rest of us in China, the new uber-slow, ultra-filtered internet is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/01/26/yea-but-im-not-a-billion-dollar-global-giant/</link>
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		<title>Foreign Mental Blocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While working in China is a completely new experience for most foreigners—and a completely foreign experience at that—there are some things that are, well, pretty easy to understand, I think, but that many new-to-China foreigners just don’t seem to get.  I’ve put together a list of issues that have stumped more than one foreign client [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/01/19/foreign-mental-blocks/</link>
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		<title>Another day, another interesting conversation (headache) with a factory.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been working on samples for a large order of clothes for over a year now.  The clothes are cool, new, fun.  But it’s been a very difficult process getting to the end of the road—the start of actual production.
We’ve got the PO signed, the deposit paid and what happens?  Factory tells us: “We don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkroadintl.net/blog/2010/01/12/another-day-another-interesting-conversation-headache-with-a-factory/</link>
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