If I need some commodity such as clothes or electronics and I need it quickly, I would go to Chinese businesses. This is because Chinese are fast (not cheap, as many people believe.) I know the contract will be kept because if it isn't I can go to the competition in China very easily. However, if my business depends on a long-term contract or intellectual property rights, I would not want to deal with Chinese businesses. Contracts are much easier to break in China, especially if officials are involved. To break a contract in the West would involve a long time in court and probably cost much money in penalties. Also, generally, China does not respect intellectual property rights. This has proven true from everything I've read.

30 years ago there was far less corruption in business. Especially in central and north Europe, as well as Canada and Australia had minimal corruption, in the society and in business also and this is why economy, research and construction flourished in those places, 30 years ago. To say nothing of Cyprus and Greece where although poorer, people there 30 years ago would not consider locking their doors for security reasons. Those times are over though and we now find ourselves in a new global reality, where borders and wars are far less significant than they used to be and technological services have simplified most aspects of our everyday lives to an extend that no one could really imagine, 30 years ago. The uncontrolled informatic and media explosion on the other hand, beginning in the '80s, has spread uncontrollably and indiscretely all notions, lifestyles, beliefs and perversions that humans may posess or become enslaved to. Thousands of movies praising crime, hostility, pornography, violence and obscenity have eroded the principal value system of the human societies so that nowdays people, and especially young generations are unable to judge for themselves between right or wrong, beautiful or pervert, style or masochism (tatoo you). And globalisation has spread this aesthetic and ethical degradation to the entire globe. And this condition, in a few words is called 'systemic, uniform corruption'. It was imported in China, it was manufactured elsewhere. Darwins "natural selection" will naturaly bring the solution to this problem either soon, logically and with human effort and schedule or abruptly, biblically in a torturing manner that a severe global recession may imply. People individually for themselves and their families may only help themselves against corruption, patiently, by reconsidering the social and family value systems which existed 30 years ago and adapting them to the 21st century reality denouncing urban violence and criminality as well as by socially isolating the people who insist in the social pathogenic attitudes of violence and business coruption . このリングは、どんな鐘のですか？

Some people would say that the expression "Chinese business ethics" is an oxymoron.

Australian Chinese businessmen will bargain more than Australian ones. If I am ill, I go to see a Chinese naturopath first.

The reason that intellectual property is mostly ignored is due to the fact business in China has been run as state-owned for a long time. IP is there to protect personal assets from being stolen, and this works really good in western society, because properties belong to individuals. Let's look back on China, the only one individual that owns business is the state. So, why would it necessary to have intellectual property since the government is powerful enough to handle everything? Unfortunately that rule doesn't fit anymore when foreign companies and private companies rises as fresh enforcement to thrill the economy. Even worse people are totally at lost what legislation makes it less painful to work out such a mess. China has a long way to go.