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May 20, 2014

United States of America v. Wang Dong, et al. (Crim. No. 14-118 W.D.Pa.)

We went so completely mental yesterday about the FBI's Wanted posters in our China cyber-spy indictment (aka WangGate) summary that we forgot to link to the indictment itself which, we should add, is an exemplary piece of legal writing. It's also concise (at 56 pages, 31 counts, 6 exhibits) given the ground it needed to cover. In all, there are 5 hackers and 6 victims over a period of nearly a decade. Nicely done, Mr. Hickton.

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Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Dan Harris's China Law: Contracts That Work.

Seattle-based Dan Harris, at his enduring, practical China Law Blog discusses China Contracts That Work. Dan's post begins:

There are three rules for making contracts enforceable in China:

Make the jurisdiction a China court.

Make the governing law Chinese law.

Make the governing language Chinese.

American companies routinely insist on contract provisions that effectively render their contracts unenforceable in China. By their own efforts, they make their contracts worthless, much to the amusement of the Chinese side of the transaction.

Calling for U.S. court jurisdiction is almost always a disaster because Chinese courts will not enforce U.S. court judgments. If, as is usually the case, the Chinese party has no assets in the United States, the U.S. judgment is effectively worthless.

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Dan Harris

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Peter Dennis Blandford Townsend: Do you ever work like he plays?

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