I helped start up an opeation in China in 2006-07. They work real hard and try very hard, but in my experience, the language barrier leads to a lot of problems. You can get a Chinese translator to rewrite your test protocols and sometimes you hardly recognize what the Chinese do based on that translation.

I was part of setting up a core storage, core analysis facility and literally you had to take them and show them on the equipment, step-by-step what you really wanted and sometimes more than once. Their language and ours are not very compatible and sometimes just does not translate directly and unless you've bumped into it personally its hard to appreciate how difficult it can make things. You're trying, they're trying, just can't quite seem to get together. I've also seen their excitement when they finally do catch on, that's cool to see it happen.

I suspect CC has seen this already.