Does any chinese have any integrity, honesty, and ethics, or is it just the government that is sneaky and inscrutable?
Obviously, I can't speak for the entire population. Some of the average folks we met were salt of the earth types and would literally give you the shirt off of their back if you needed it. This is way more than I can say for the Russians I worked with on another project. However, all of the "officials" we encountered in China seemed suspect of us and everything we brought with us. Some of that is a cultural thing, but I think most Americans would feel that they were treated, at best, rudely if they had gone through the same experiences we did with Chinese customs. I know several others who traveled to China to work on other projects and everyone pretty much came away with the same impression.