I read letters in the newspapers from people who imply that there is nothing to the Chinese incidents. The buying of tickets, the parties, the business deals etc.
Every time I read one of these I know that the person has never travelled, knows nothing about Asian, Asia or the Chinese.
They are also the kinds of people like almost every Australian business person trying to set up a business in China, they failed because they were conned.
The first thing that Westerners do not understand about the Chinese is that they are long term planners. They have 50 years plans, multi-generational plans. This a society where a martial artist will train for 40 years just to master a single technique. The Western mind cannot understand such dedication. They want results in a couple of years.
The Chinese business mind is similar. They will organize say a spying or information gathering effort that might take 20 years to come to fruition. They will partner an individual with potential prospect that may achieve high goals in the future. This is not a six month undercover operation, this is a life time effort.
A father will work his whole life to ensure that his grandchildren have plenty, taking nothing for himself.
They approach things like contracts and agreements in a completely different way. This is why Westerners are such easy targets. They believe that signing a contract is the whole process.
So they will smile, nod, agree and have plans in motion to take it all either in the short term or the long term it matters not.
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