Life is uncertain – eat dessert first

July 10, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

So say the T-shirts at are local ice cream parlor.  I think it’s a great line and not a bad philosophy. It got me think about our services.  Despite the copious amounts of verbiage on our website, I spend a good chunk of each day explaining what we do and how we do it – [...]

Vendor fade

June 6, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Dan Harris at the China Law Blog has a great post that sums up what I call “vendor fade”.  I love his restaurant analogy, “One Small China Restaurant Writ Large. Really Large.“  It is a short post, so I will quote here in full, but I strongly urge you to visit the China Law Blog [...]

Some miscellaneous articles

May 27, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Feeling lazy today.  Sometimes the juices ain’t flowing.  In no particular order: MSNBC – Clinton says world must respond to N. Korea Financial Times – US warns over Beijing’s ‘assertiveness’ DER SPIEGEL  – Interview with Economist Nouriel Roubini: ‘We Will Have Even More Crises in the Future’ (hat tip Matt) Real Clear Politics – Depression [...]

China’s Mexico is inside China

May 26, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

This analogy has a number of problems with it (like most analogies), but I got the point the first time I heard Mike Bellamy make it. Too many American industries rely on illegal labor to remain cost competitive, thus the constant drama on the border issue. The China nearly every Westerner sees is the coastal [...]

More comments on “Sheer Import Genius” and a great post from Renaud

May 25, 2010 by whit · 2 Comments 

Renaud Anjoran is a fine fellow who runs an excellent blog about quality control in China.  I’ve linked to him in the past, and he’s returned the favor. He commented on my recent post, “Sheer Import Genius“.  This led me to read two excellent posts on the the good and bad trading companies in China. [...]

Great China Law Blog post related to “Sheer Import Genius”

May 24, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

A most excellent post on the importance of protecting your supply chain from Dan Harris of the (most excellent) China Law Blog.  If you are not a subscriber, you should be.  He is kind enough to link to my post yesterday, “Sheer Import Genius“. The importance of contracts and compartmentalizing your supply chain cannot be [...]

Well, that’s just great…it’s spelled “proofread”

May 20, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

So I spend a week proofreading my post on proofreading only to be immediately informed by an observant reader (a former professor of mine from USC no less) that “proofread” is one word.  Not “proof read”, as I wrote yesterday. I take full responsibility, as I am the only one who proofreads my blog posts.  [...]

McDonald’s, also known as the “Get-Out-Of-China-Free-Card”

May 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

A friend and classmate of mine had a terrible time with the food in Beijing 11-12 years ago.  Food poisoning was a weekly event. He began hitting McDonald’s almost daily to give his stomach a foundation to get by on.  Having had my share of food poisoning in China since then, I agree.  When you’ve [...]

Blogging is hard work

May 16, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

In less than a year I have gone from daily blogging to forcing myself to find something to write about once a week if that. Since my return from China two weeks ago, I have been working like crazy trying to bag all the new business raining down on PassageMaker, SafePassage and China Quality Focus.  [...]

Is China the next bubble?

March 29, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

In my post the other day,”Eduscam?“, I pointed to the entirely anecdotal experiences I had recently with our college educated youth who haven’t a moment’s work experience between them when they leave school.  I had one thought that I decided to save for today. Many young souls seem to want to be bankers or lawyers, [...]

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