ASC and Customs – Don St Pierre Sr responds

Here is the text of an email I received this morning which its sender, the founder of China's biggest wine importing compant ASC would like me to publish. It's no picnic out there in the Wild East, but then everyone is working on the assumption that the stakes are extremely high.

Dear Jancis,

It was very nice to see you in Shanghai earlier this month at the Room to Read fundraiser.  I didn’t expect to be in touch again so soon, but seeing Simon Tam’s article on your website, which contains serious errors of fact, has compelled me to write. ...