Since it was a meeting for the contract, there certainly was going to be a battle for the interests between the two parties. In fact, however, for such meetings when the contract was already about to be finalized, everything had actually already been negotiated by both parties before they got to the room. Both parties were just having a discussion at that meeting as a matter of routine. This was particularly so when the opposite party was a multinational company like the White Group.
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