Pretty much. Nortel Guangzhou had bamboo ceiling on (mainland) Chinese management roles in the late 90s even foreign nationals, i.e. (mainland) Chinese Canadian

Pretty much. Nortel Guangzhou had bamboo ceiling on (mainland) Chinese management roles in the late 90s even foreign nationals, i.e. (mainland) Chinese Canadians. Big surprise when entire engineering teams got poached by ZTE and Huawei. Pretty consistent complaints from other industries. Emphasis on mainland because it didn't apply to Taiwan / HK / SK / Singapore expats. I think institutional inertia and seniority played a big part, but didn't sit well with people being blocked.