In this political and economic environment, if you want to make progress on your business objectives, carry out your business activities of whatever kind, you have to be very careful about political and economic news. For example, if you are on the Taiwan side, Taiwan has two different political parties now. One is the Democratic Progressive Party, the other is the Nationalist Party. So if you want to do business, and you don’t know which religion your counterpart is, or which party he leans towards, then you need to be careful about what you say. The Chinese have a saying: “If your thinking is different, there’s no way you can talk or work together.” So, if you want to do business, you have to be really really careful about political news.
Let me give you an example. Mainland China is the same. There’s some news in mainland China that you absolutely cannot mention. That’s because in the mainland, people have always held to the principle of keeping their distance from politics and economics. Politically speaking, it’s Communist. But economically, it’s gradually moving towards a capitalist society, using economics to invigorate its future. So they view politics and economics separately. Of course, if you touch on some kinds of topics that involve politics when you’re trying to engage in commercial activities, like demonstrations, something that is critical of their government’s policies, it will, in your commercial setting or your commercial activities, give rise to very bad feelings and create very bad consequences. So, with regard to this question, I recommend that if you want to talk about these kinds of political-economic issues, [don’t do it] unless you know exactly which political system your counterpart supports, which political group he belongs to. If you aren’t clear about this, you would do best to avoid political-economic, political, economic, and religious topics. | 在这个政经的环境里,你假如是说进行你的商业目的,进行你的某种商业活动的话,对这种有关的政经新闻呢,你是特别要注意的。举例来说,你假如是说在台湾方面的话。台湾的有两个不同的party现在。一个是民进党,一个是国民党。所以你假如是说要做生意,你假如不知道你的这个对方是信仰哪一个宗教,或者是说是倾向哪一个政党政治的话,那你的讲话啦是要特别的小心。因为中国人有句话就是:“道不同不相为谋”。所以啦你要做生意的话啦,有关政治经济这种politic 的新闻呢你要特别特别的注意。
举一个例子来讲啦,在中国大陆也是一样。中国大陆啦象有些新闻呢根本就是不能够提及的。因为在大陆方面啦,政经是一向本持着分离的原则。政治啦他们是讲这种共产政治,经济啦他们是已经逐渐走向资本主义的社会,然后用经济来振兴国家的这个前途。所以他们把政经分离。当然你要在这个进行商业活动的时候,你假如去去涉及到一些有关政治的话题,象是示威呀,象是对他们政府政策有所批评的话呢,这对你的这个商业的环境,或者是商业活动的进行呢,会有非常不好的这种这种感觉,而且会造成一种非常不好的后果。所以关于这一个问题啦,我的建议是啦你假如要讲这种政经的问题,除非你是确切了解你的对方他是属于哪一个政治系统,他是属于哪一个政治关系。那你假如是不清楚的啦,有些政经,政治,经济,宗教的话题啦最好请予避免。 |