Don't worry lah, have worked with PRCs. Know their attitude so well, sweep things under carpet whenever they commit mistakes, don't want to admit it. I so HATE the give me face mentality of these Cheena types. You don't improve until you know what u have done wrong.
Yes, can check back in 10 years time on quality of China products. 10 years ago it was bad, fast forward to present its still bad.
Give me Thailand any time lah. China has no creativity whatsoever. When u go Thailand's Chatuchak market you see the ingenuity & creativity of their creations in product design. Even Bangkok's shopping mall toilets have unique design. I don't see it in China.
I am NOT a China fan. But before u brand me as someone who does NOT know how China progresses, yes I do know they have overtaken & surpassed Spore sometime in the year 2000, I knew Spore was dead for good! I knew it then & there when I first visited China on a working trip.
I just CANNOT tahan PRCs social behaviour & work attitudes. Still NO changes.
Compare it to Taiwan, their social behaviour is leaps & bounds above that of any so called civilized PRC living in cosmopolitan Shanghai or Beijing. Even the farmer in Taiwan has better manners & social behaviour than an office city salaried man or woman from Shanghai or Beijing!!
So back to ideal retirement grounds Thailand or Taiwan. Anywhere outside Taipei to the south of Taiwan or west of Taiwan is much cheaper than Taipei. For Thailand, its the cooler northern Thailand.
We've all work with our share of coarse, irritating and unethical Chinese.
Anyone or everyone who have ever work in China would have come across
them - directly or indirectly.
Have you also work with your share of younger Chinese? Bright,
highly-intelligent, ambitious, hard-working, efficient, honest and fore-sighted.
Some of them can put a lot of our local youth to shame.
The new generation will conquer poor quality and corruption in a matter of
time.
What I worry more is the new tide of ultra-nationalism sweeping China. Try
to go into a debate with a mainland Chinese into the negative aspect of
China. A normally calm and fair Chinese can become a flag-waving, fiery-eye
and ultra-protective of a new China that can do no wrong!
Talk to any mainland Chinese in Singapore. After one or two weeks of natural
curiosity, you'll notice that they'll start comparing with mainland China and
insist that a lot of things are better back home.
There's no wrong in national pride. However, national pride that goes to the
extreme in which one's own country can do no wrong can become dangerous.