HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH CHINESE? CHINESE WILL TWIST RANIL’S ARMS CARRING A BEGGING BOWL
Posted on April 2nd, 2016
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
Since grabbing power through unconstitutional methods, Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe government tried to find out corrupt deals between Chinese Government and the former government of President Mahinda Rajapakse. Headlines after headlines were given front page banner lines attacking Chinese Projects in Sri Lanka. Since coming into power Ranil and his government did everything at their disposal to bring Chinese Government into disrepute. The government pleased Americans and Indians to such an extent, an atmosphere was created that Chinese were Enemies of Sri Lanka.
Now, suddenly, our Rt Hon Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe is on a voyage of discovery with a begging bowl to resurrect the diplomatic relationships and re-start the chinese funded major projects that were put in place by President Mahinda Rajapakse.
The way Chinese Government had been treated by Ranil since becoming Prime Minster, have been reported to the Chinese High Command, by the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka.
Ranil will be taught several lessons during his proposed trip to China. He will not come back with bag full of good news. Chinese will put Ranil in his proper place.
Ranil will learn several tips of how to do business with Chinese. Some of them are:
- Chinese do not make quick decisions
- Chinese do not make quick friends
- Chinese generally are not friendly people
- Chinese generally do not trust you
- Chinese will drag on business negotiations
- If Chinese says YES, it means NO
- If Chinese says NO, it could mean YES
- Chinese business deals are extremely complicated
- Chinese calculate projects costing to the Nth degree, with minute details;
- Chinese deal at micro level at the base line details, not at macro level top of the tree;
- Chinese business negotiation style will annoy you as their tactics are changed constantly
- Chinese will reverse the decisions made yesterday during negotiations and impose new conditions the day after
- Chinese do not talk too much
- Chinese dislike those who criticise them one day, praise another day
- Chinese dislike those who praise Americans and Indians whilst attacking Chinese
- Chinese hate being used, when reach them as the last resort after failing to seek financial injections from Americans, Westerners and Indians
- if you are playing games and try to use Chinese when you are in trouble, Chinese will prolong your agony
- Chinese can stand alone
- Chinese don’t need Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka need Chinese
- Americans, Europeans need Chinese
- Chinese are proud
- Chinese are rich with 2.5 times gross domestic productivity compared to Americans and Westerners,
- Chinese can make Americans poorer by a stroke of pen
- if you are a friend of Chinese, then you are a Chinese friend.
- Chinese will only help a true friend.
Chinese Proverb:
“ You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet”
April 2nd, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Chinese also have long memories unlike Sri Lankans who have very short memories. Sri Lankans have forgotten what a hell hole they were in and how President Mahinda Rajapakshe delivered them from it at great danger to himself and his family. Even President My3 who praised him so much earlier has now forgotten all that and is going after MR for deadly revenge along with CBK, RW and Sarath Fonseka.
What Maithripala Sirisena said before about Mahinda Rajapaksa
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoqholH508
April 2nd, 2016 at 7:17 pm
The shameless idiot Ranil thought the Americans, Indians and other western countries will help him financially if he goes against China and Pakistan. The Chinese, Pakistanis and other friends of Sri Lanka helps us without any strings attached. The western countries always demands more than what they give. What can we expect from India? Only sub standard goods and interference from the central government and the stupid politicians from Tamil Nadu. Ranil seems to have learnt a lesson, but it is too late now to take his begging bowl to China. Hope the Chinees will tell him to go to hell and take Sira with him as well.
April 2nd, 2016 at 7:45 pm
My Dear Sarath
Thank you for your comments. ” Hope the Chinees will tell him to go to hell and take Sira with him as well”. Unfortunately NO. Chinese will never display their anger. Instead the proposed meetings will be conducted by going through minute details of the Project/Projects. The Prime Ministers are usually not involved at this level of details, will be delegated to Officials.
Ranil will come back and make a big media propaganda that he has achieved a great success and saved billions of dollars by getting Chinese to agree with Ranil’s changes. But please wait for a month or two, there will be no work in progress at the ground level. Then we know Ranil has not achieved anything.
Another junior Chinese delegate will come for further discussions. Then some Sri Lankan delegates will go to China. China will go round and round in circles without agreeing to anything.
Chinese knows that there were three true friends of China in Sri Lanka. They were Late SWRD and Madam Sirimavo. Both are no more. The only living Chinese Legendary Friend in Sri Lanka now is none other than Great Mahinda Rajapakse.
He is now almost at the door steps of the Entrance to Presidential Palace. Chinese knows this and will wait for the great occasion.
April 3rd, 2016 at 2:10 am
Dear Dr MDPD,
It is unfortunate if the Chinese do not snub our PM. That will give opportunities for some our stupid ministers and their goons to make free vacations to China and eat Yum Cha.
April 3rd, 2016 at 3:50 am
කොණ්ඩෙ බැඳපු චීන්නුන්ට මේව කියාපං
April 3rd, 2016 at 5:24 am
Chinese are not stupid, but Sinhalese are, especially the Colombo elite who worship the old western colonial white masters.
Now these idiots (Ranil / Sira /Mangala) realising that they’ve been fooled by their colonial masters, they are desperate for the Chinese help, which they won’t receive anytime soon.
MR built a solid relationship with China which helped Sri Lanka to become one of the fastest developing nations in Asia. But the present idiots in the government ruined our good relationship with China, by becoming the prostitutes of India and the West, which have screwed our country royally..!
April 3rd, 2016 at 9:09 pm
These Yahapalana idiots snubbed the Chinese the most dirty way imaginable. Ponna Mangala, Ponna Ranil, Traitor Ravi together with Aappa Sira (who had an emission while touching queen’s hand – fame), thought that the Christian West will come to their aid. This is the very same thing that happened to Traitor JR when he snubbed India and Indira in favour urine sipper Morarji Desai!
It is not everyday a President of China dropped into a country. Not only President Xi Jinping came to Sri Lanka, he also inaugurated a landmark project for Sri Lanka the Port City Project. The idiots in Sri Lanka never realised the gravity of what they were about to do.
Just like for the Norochcholai Coal Power Project the Catholic church is out in front claiming environmental concerns and fishermen’s rights against this project. The coal power project would have been completed many years ago if not for the involvement of the Catholic Church who are hand in glove with the West.
We just have to wait and see to see how Ponna Ranil will get his ‘just desserts’! Unfortunately it will be Sri Lanka that will have to suffer the consequences.
Chinese must wait till there is a change of government to continue with the project. In the meantime all ponnayas who voted for Yahapalanaya can eat thosai masala wadai!