I'm extremely critical with Boeing's responses in general and the smearing and throwing pilots and airlines under the bus.

But in that case they had a point.

Seniority is super important in Asian culture. You just! don't! criticize! your! superiors! period.

That's extremely diametral for resources management and crew communication in a cockpit.

The first officer may tend to say nothing, even if he believes the plane should pull up in order not to offend the senior person.

That said, Asian airlines learned from this and put a lot of effort to rectify this issue.

That's absolutely no excuse for Boeing's despicable behavior on those last two crashes.

The actual vocabulary used when speaking to superiors in many asian languages also tends to be more verbose and subdued in meaning, as opposed to sharp and concise.