Last weekend was a long weekend in Hong Kong, we got Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. Apart from successfully closing a deal last Friday with the future working partner, what left was non-stop eating with the family, meeting up with old colleague friend in Macau and the small luck I had in the casino, also some of the mixed feelings.
The itinerary for the weekend is pretty straightforward: -
Friday: Meeting-Lunch-Go home packing-Ferry to Macau-Dinner/Cruising around with the family - Catch up with old friend
Saturday: Venician (Macau) - XueHai (China)
Sunday: XueHai - Hot Spring Resort - Ferry to Hong Kong
Yes the Venician in Macau is huge, the economy in Hong Kong is prosperous, the development in China is growing at fast fast speed, everyone sees the opportunity and the wealth brought by the emerging China market, what about my home country Taiwan?
During the lunch time with the senior executives (COO, MD, AM and PM in charge of the Asia-Pacific region) from our partner, through the casual conversation they suddenly made a comment "Taiwan is entertaining", for its special Congress culture, for the way how people does business, for its distinguished Green/Blue phenomenon - I reacted quite, but honestly feel sad. All these years being abroad, I have tried my best to correct the stereotypes from these Western people who might not understand thoroughly about the relationship between Taiwan and China, but when people are more impressed with Taiwan for its political statement than its business competitiveness, how do we move our economy forward?
I knew I should just have enjoyed the holiday without thinking this type of the issue, but I do wish one day, and in the very near coming future, the comments I hear from people from Taiwan, or outside Taiwan, are positive and promising.
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