whatisthathey you gotta realize, it's been said over and over again and it should have been obvious from the moment you signed that contract.. Chinese managers rarely support the foreign managers.. and that policy that HD wrote up was never authorized, just like 99% of the improvements that Pat, Howard, and other managers tried to implement. You can't blame good managers for trying to push improvements to moral, fatigue, and safety, however when those things conflict with the Chinese managers view of "work work work, no need for safety, just graduate students who cares how well they fly" then it's obvious the one who calls all the shots.. (Ahem Mr. Tu, the biggest LIAR i have ever met in the 25 years of my life) then you're gonna loose. If you think Mr. Ding was a brick wall when it came to company suggestions.. then Mr. Tu is the Great Wall of China.