{"id":3179,"date":"2007-08-10T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/08\/10\/comic-of-the-day-34\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:07:20","slug":"comic-of-the-day-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/08\/10\/comic-of-the-day-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/strips\/mallard\/2000\/mallard1.asp\" title=\"mft20070809.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/files\/2007\/08\/mft20070809.jpg\" alt=\"mft20070809.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The China Conundrum was inevitable. Importing entire Wal-Marts full of goods from a third world country with as creative and casual an attitude towards standards and regulation as China was wound to have repercussions in a country as litigation-loco as the US.  The first thing an American thinks when he stubs his toe is &#8220;Who can I sue?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, many Americans don&#8217;t even wait to stub anything, they wake up in the morning thinking &#8220;Who can I sue today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the answer to that question, in an increasing number of cases, is &#8220;Someone in China&#8221; is sure to lead to an increasing demand for American lawyers versed in the procedures of bringing suit in Chinese and international courts, and for English-speaking Chinese lawyers to defend the coming avalanche of suits.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, the Dowbrigade has recently become one of the world&#8217;s top experts in teaching legal English to foreign lawyers. Actually, one of the world&#8217;s few experts. But, be that as it may, we are evaluating where the best locale for an International Institute of Legal English &#8211; Hong Kong or Beijing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China Conundrum was inevitable. Importing entire Wal-Marts full of goods from a third world country with as creative and casual an attitude towards standards and regulation as China was wound to have repercussions in a country as litigation-loco as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/08\/10\/comic-of-the-day-34\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}