Lure of China

Is it increasingly necessary for Indians to know Chinese and the Chinese?
A few days ago, a Chinese delegation visited our company, to explore the possibility of a collaboration.
The leader of the team, Wong, was a finance grad from Stanford. When the rest of the team, comprising scientists, was interacting with my company's R&D staff, I learnt a few things from Wong about his approach to financial problems. For instance, he built an Excel worksheet for me to apply CAPM or capital asset pricing model.

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