Hello again
Because of a reply to you today by another poster, I would like to reaffirm my position, which is, is that it is total nonsense to expect the Chinese, or any other nese-type country to be happy about employing an FT who is not a native-born English speaker. This FT doesn't have to actually be English(although that would be ideal,) he can be an American, a Scot, and so on. Most of the support for any-old-nationality-will-do, comes from grumbling FT's needing another stick to beat the Chinese with.