In some sense, the same ethic can be found in business dealings Mush of commercial loft is lubricated by guanxi a concept bast translated as “connections” or “personal” relationships.” Guanxi is an alternative to the legal trapping of Western capitalism in that business is cemented by the informal relationships of the trust and mutual obligation. Sometimes viewed as bribery, guaxi grows more out of the Confucian ethos of family obligations, Guanxi is less like using professional U.S. congressional lobbyists than interlocking entanglements of mutual friend among whom trust can be maintained.