Ok, good to know:)

At the managerial part I totally agree, I think you did great, and people can learn a lot from more details.

I agree that business is not about "life or death fighting in class struggle" (actually that's also my point: the management is a structure of making money together, or in other words, it's money that brings us together, and exectives work for the purpose of making everyday business happen).

It is also my personal principle to keep business and politics separated, I personally don't mess them up -- although I do have my clear political attitude and principle. For example: I'm against Iraq war from very beginning (with many reasons, and did attend anti-war demonstration with personal risk), I like China getting into a shape good for business and unwelcome to anything useless.... but I don't mix them up, I can deal with anybody of this world.

I actually recognize the Chinese origin of "life or death fighting in class struggle", but I have a different opinion on it. My opinion is: that's politics at grand level, which provides the grand structure to our daily life, the form it took was just a technical detail. Do people notice? This time's US presidential compaign does not point finger to China as an easy black goat (an easy black goat for any problem here?:), my personal opinion is: this is not because they do not want to do that, it is because they do not dare to do that! My opinion is: yes we do need that kind of politics (first of all, without that kind of politics, somebody like me wouldn't even have a chance, who's going to care about somebody like me? but now that time is over, we simply don't take it, and if we have to, we can do the life or death game.)

My point is: keep these things separated, business is business.