problems

seeingredinchina.com — Looking back on the scenario, I can still only compare it to Kafka's The Trial, a story in which a man experiences the confusing nightmare of bureaucracy and society gone amok. I had started the first step to China on the wrong foot by coming to teach on a tourist visa.

newdynasty.com.cn — 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 think that we can do this order. We’re really busy now.”

247wallst.com — China’s Premier Wen Jiabao says that workers should be treated better. Jiabao’s comments come in light of a series of strikes at Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) plants and supplier facilities. He should be careful that his wish may come true. The central government is faced with two conflicting problems which means that it is not likely to solve either one of them.

www.acf-china.com — "If I were worried about one single element of doing business in China today, it wouldn’t be inflation. Nor would it be the rising costs of exports due to the rapid appreciation of the yuan. The cost of labor going up would not be my main concern either. No, all of these issue seem unpleasant yet manageable, in one way or another, even if difficult. So what then pray tell would it be? Definitely it would be rising Chinese nationalism."