It's that time of the year again when I begin to plan for our end-of-year issue and start thinking about some of the recurring policy and legislative trends we've seen in China over the last 12 months. Although we're not quite there yet, and the majority of the themes will be explored in the December/January edition as a recap, this month we feature a shift that has conspicuously grabbed headlines in 2010.
China's employment issues noisily made the media spotlight in the early summer with a spate of suicides occurring in Shenzhen, at Foxconn's factory grounds. Then Honda workers went on a