He used to say, "The definition of a Chinese merchant was one who could buy from a Scotsman, sell to a jew, and make a profit."
Chinese merchants have been cheating each other for so long that it is hardly a challenge to cheat westerners.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
This is exactly the point I was trying to make with Kelly but somehow that person didn’t seem to understand. If you read Kelly’s post to me, apparently it all has to do with Communism. The point I was making was that this has been going on for years.
Not too sure why Kelly ignores one of Midler’s observations, as well as that of others, that this has been a constant trait in China. As a person of Chinese descent, I can say that it happened when I was living in Taiwan under one-party Kuomintang (KMT or Nationalist) rule. In fact, many of the products were copied and made substandard on a regular basis. Only in the past 25 years has Taiwan gotten on the contract law bandwagon.