Really, the official launch of our China Speakers' Bureau is not far off now. One of the reasons things go pretty slow, is because we are already pretty busy in placing speakers. This morning professor Zhang Jun of Fudan spoke for a group of Brazilian EMBA-students from Insead and tomorrow afternoon Paul French of Access Asia speaks at the opening of a chemical factory.
This morning I got a briefing on a corporate conference taking place in June for the 100+ top managers of a company in China, and they were looking for two speakers, one famous one for the opening of the conference.
The pattern is more or less similar: what they - mostly - want is a Chinese speaker, fluent in English with an international outlook. What a pity for all my non-Chinese friends.
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People never learned ... what they really want is a Chinese who speak-a-English. Have knowledge in international-outlook, in whatever fields, is an afterthought.
Now wonder why they still do not understand China? Or the Chinese?
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