if, in our haste to use Chinese, we change the standard and the meaning of the law, and non-Chinese speakers get pushed out of practice, then we risk losing those links.' The traditional Chinese structure has focused on mediation for civil and commercial cases, with lawyers widely viewed as troublemakers, and on executive punishment for criminal cases; there has been no history of justice through an adversarial process. As the Asian Wall Street Journal warned, "A drift into linguistic balkanization -- part English and part Cantonese, plus jargon grafted from the Chinese mainland -- could unmoor Hong Kong from the international business community." (Callick, 1998, p. 84)
Part of doing business with a foreign county is seeing how they see you. It was essential to impress upon the American companies with which we dealt, that Hong Kong remained "open for business."
In a less broad context, the Consultant found out that the particulars of the Telecom Industry are both similar and different when Hong Kong is compared to the United States. Today, both markets possess powerful, innovative, and aggressive leaders. In the United States, telecommunications was once a special case - a monopoly of one gigantic company. Since the 1980s, deregulation has made it possible for many companies to enter the market and to compete. It is because of this opening up of the market to competition that Hong Kong companies now have the freedom to enter the world of American telecom. Furthermore, the World Trade Organization has made telecommunication a more global business than ever before. The Chinese Government has been especially active in its attempts to assert Chinese dominance in the field of telecommunications. Hong Kong is the primary weapon in this war, as it is the only part of China that has ever found itself fully integrated into the Western - and now the global - economy. Li Kashing, the wealthiest man in Hong Kong, was propelled into the project of global telecom dominance by the People's Republic of China working in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. Li Kashing financed an enormous venture for his son Richard Li:
Richard, posturing as "patriotic" to woo Chinese leadership, was given access to Chinese state capital through partnership with president Jiang Zemin's son Jiang Mianheng, a vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, whose goal it has been to break the West's "monopoly on information resources and related industries." The two illustrious sons cooperated in a number of ventures, including a joint design of computer web and video programming, and the development of an English-Chinese bilingual browser designed to "grab back the browser market from western domination...." In August 2000 Richard Li's Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) bought Cable and Wireless Hong Kong Telecom for a blockbuster U.S.$38.1 billion (the biggest telecom merger in Asia) in a bid to monopolize the delivery of video programming and the Internet over the world's largest broadband network... It was clear to all that he was backed by the Chinese government, whose Ministry of Information and Industry had held significant shares of the company. He was also awarded, without a competitive bid, the right to develop Cyberport -- a multi-billion dollar high-tech industrial park from the Hong Kong government, a deal that included substantial subsidies and land rights for the entire complex that was to become Chinese Silicon Valley.
For example, as Sheridan (2003) emphasizes, "When Short Message Service (SMS) was first introduced on mobile phones, it was seen merely as an extra feature that might be used by people on an irregular basis. But in fact, text-messaging turned out to be one of the device's most desirable assets, and is regarded by many as one of the most significant cultural developments of the past decade" (p. xxviii). Given
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