Send Htran . He would be a good negotiator (try Trump style, go high then cut low). If he failed, he would be a good hit man afterward, 1 stone 2 birds in Chinese verb.
Joke aside, the CEO would want to take back the control of the company which has so much cash he can lives on forever in China. He is no dummy. He could do it in many ways, either buy back shares (most sensible thing to do), take it private himself or sell it, or silliest thing to do is making a fraud and running for the rest of his life in hiding which is not a good saving face for a Chinese. He has to look good!
All we can do now is wait. The directors are hand tight given the ability to write cheque is out of their hands at the moment. We can either pray to God daily to get back that cheque power or try to get a new CEO next meeting. There is a lot of unemployment in China, I am sure we would find one there to fill out the small role with their 1.4billion populations, it won’t be that hard.........or we just to close the company down for early Christmas