How to Lose a Deal in China

It is sort of part of business, and even movie lore now that learnign about foreign culture just enough to make a deal is always there. You see it when some business guy meets with a Japanese CEO to try and make a deal, in some restaurant with modern furniture, and then he accidently uses the wrong word to say something which totally offends the Japanese CEO. The deal goes south, and the guy is left scratching his head as to what he did wrong.

With the way the world is now you may be more inclined to be making a deal in China these days than anywhere else. A good article on how not to screw that deal up is here. They picked 3 things that should keep you from killing a deal in China. Things that will make you look like aq fool, or just plain offend someone.