How Do You Respond to Eye Contact in China?

In China, firm eye contact is not expected and is seen as inappropriate between managers and their teams. I remember when I was living with Estonians in Melbourne, they have a thing where if you're drinking with them and you take a sip or, no, when you say cheers, you need to look them in the eye. In China, there is more distance between hierarchical levels and so strong eye contact to superiors can be seen as definal challenging. Remember that non verbal signals mean different things in different parts of the world.

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