Editor's Note: New Issue Alert
June 14, 2019 | BY
Anna ZhangThe Q2 issue is here. And we have some news.
The Q2 issue of China Law & Practice is out. And as you will discover, this is the last print issue of CLP. We are going to be a fully online publication. As you will read in the note below, there will be no major change to your experience as a reader or a contributor of the publication. As always, feel free to reach me or Susan at [email protected] or [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.
—Anna
A New Chapter
In the previous editor’s letter, I wrote that 2019 would be a challenging year for China. “Challenging” turned out to be a pretty mild term to describe the state of China’s business dealings with the world. Trade negotiations with the United States appeared to have fallen apart at the eleventh hour despite much hope and months-long efforts. And a series of U.S. enforcement actions targeting Chinese telecom giant Huawei promise even more strains on both the bilateral relations between the countries and the survival of Chinese companies in the global market.
The days of mutual civility and cooperation are gone; instead, we are now in for an era of adversarial rhetorics and tit-for-tat retaliations beyond simply raising tariffs on each other’s imports. As Huawei and other Chinese companies are made to deal with novel U.S. enforcement tools, such as the Commerce Department’s Entity List, Beijing is mulling over its own version—dubbed the Unreliable Entity List—targeting foreign companies and individuals that harm the interests of Chinese companies.
All of these happened after the March passage of the PRC Foreign Investment Law (外商投资法), at the time considered a major part of Beijing’s showing of good faith in trade negotiations. The law, once effective, will still have significant impacts on foreign investors operating in China. Our cover stories go into details about these effects: starting on page 10, lawyers at Baker McKenzie and FenXun Partners write about transitioning from the current foreign investment regime to the new one; and on page 14, SIPS partner Troy Rice analyzes the specifics on technology transfer and other IP-related implications. And the entire law is translated on page TK.
And China Law & Practice enters a new chapter of its own. This is the last issue of our print magazine as we move fully online. Everything else remains the same; we will continue publishing news, features and analyses on chinalawandpractice.com. You will hear from us regularly through our newsletters. And of course, the entire archive of law translations is available in a searchable online database.
Thank you so much for reading and, to many of you, writing for CLP. We will continue to publish articles and insights from you and for you on our website. We hope to continue to hear from you. If you have any suggestions of topics we should cover, article ideas or feedback of any kind, please feel free to get in touch at [email protected].
Anna Zhang
Asia Bureau Chief
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