I've been meeting a lot of well-connected Chinese people... here in the US!!
Seriously, if you want a good start on networking, the way is through befriending international students. The chinese kids I meet here are the top 5% most intelligent of the Chinese population, supposedly according to the tests they took which qualify them for abroad studies funding. Consider, when nerdy Xui Li graduates from her American university she is going straight back to China.
Same with the Japanese. I have a considerable number of Japanese friends who are now professionals in Tokyo who attended US schools and were recruited by Japanese companies inside the USA (by means of the annual exclusive Japanese job fair).
I guess my point is, foreign networking starts from home!
Seriously, if you want a good start on networking, the way is through befriending international students. The chinese kids I meet here are the top 5% most intelligent of the Chinese population, supposedly according to the tests they took which qualify them for abroad studies funding. Consider, when nerdy Xui Li graduates from her American university she is going straight back to China.
Same with the Japanese. I have a considerable number of Japanese friends who are now professionals in Tokyo who attended US schools and were recruited by Japanese companies inside the USA (by means of the annual exclusive Japanese job fair).
I guess my point is, foreign networking starts from home!