Inexperienced, totally unqualified, incompetent Chinese employees, especially with USA college degrees, are assumed to be more suitable as decision-makers than highly qualified non-Chinese. Provably incorrect Chinese advice almost always trusted more than experience-based non-Chinese advice, except if from expensive outside consultants. Mindray has eliminated almost all non-Chinese R&D personnel, including cutting hundreds of USA R&D after acquiring Datascope. R&D therefore now focuses mostly on figuring our ways to copy Western competitors' products without violating patents. Credit always goes up; blame always goes down, so if a product doesn't sell well, it must be sales person's fault. Also leads to frequent replacement of R&D head, or R&D restructuring. The CEO will never change a clearly stupid decision because that would be admitting error, which, by definition, is impossible. International focus and sophistication severely lessened when CEO Xu Hang left. CEO Li prefers to focus on small, domestic, Chinese problems and competitors he understands rather than big, more dangerous non-Chinese problems and competitors he doesn't.
