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When a supplier in China sells goods without a signed paper contract, relying instead on WeChat messages, delivery receipts, and invoices, a buyer's default …
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Borrowing and lending in China operate in a dense regulatory environment where the difference between a civil dispute and a criminal offense can turn on a si…
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China's courts apply a single, dynamic ceiling to interest in private lending disputes: four times the one-year Loan Prime Rate (LPR) published by the People…
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Money-market funds sold through digital payment platforms have transformed how ordinary investors in China hold cash. Yet the convenience of buying a fund pr…
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Tax evasion is one of the most consequential risks a business can face in China, and also one of the most misunderstood. The legal framework draws a careful …
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Chinese courts have refined the sentencing framework for tax crimes in recent years, and the changes directly affect how companies and executives assess risk…
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In China, the crime of falsely issuing special value-added tax (VAT) invoices has become one of the fastest-growing tax-related offenses in criminal practice…
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Ask a procurement director in Xiamen who sells into European or North American markets what keeps them up at night, and the answer is increasingly environmen…
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One of the most frequent questions I hear in my banking and financial services practice in Wuhan is deceptively simple: "If I cannot repay my bank loan, will…
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In more than seventeen years of practice advising hospitals, research institutions and contract research organisations across Sichuan, I have watched China's…
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Between 2013 and 2018, peer-to-peer lending platforms grew from a niche experiment into a national phenomenon in China, promising retail investors double-dig…
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Guangzhou, the southern gateway of the Pearl River Delta, has been a crossroads of international trade for centuries. Today, it is also where many foreign in…
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