Squire Patton Boggs has published its first edition of the Commodities & Shipping Group’s (CSG) Quarterly Update. The topic we chose to focus on for this publication is slavery in supply chains. The Global Survey Index reports over 45.8 million people are subject to modern slavery (26% of whom are children, and 55% are women … Continue Reading
The most recent FCPA and anticorruption enforcement developments involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are summarized below. Thanks, as always, to Squire Sanders’ Shanghai Office for monitoring these enforcement actions. 1. New law or regulation State level: (1) It was reported on July 6, 2013 that the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (“SPP”) of China issued … Continue Reading
The combination of the fact-driven and the oblique in the Chinese news media’s reporting of this sad news are striking: key facts are reported (someone died, how/where he died, his name/position). Only at the end however, is reference made to the likelihood he himself was responsible for his death (i.e., he didn’t fall – he jumped … Continue Reading
