I hope you gave that brit an earful of your ideas. If he values friendship he should never, ever do that to anyone again. Sounds like he's already picking up some bad habits from being in china. The "Heeey we didn't tell you this ahead of time BUT JUST DO IT it's all riiiight!" attitude will get you a bloody nose with a short tempered, normal individual who thought you were a friend. The people in china were raised in ways that are dehumanizing across many aspects, so they carry it with them into the business world and don't realize that it's very unethical.