[Cronos]

Not Harley-Davidsons. Not "Big Three," in ANY measurable fashion.

Not Harley Davidsons -- their roads are too cr**py for such bikes, but Ford and GM are selling qutie a number of vehicles there. Plus Ford's partner Hyunadi is the number one seller of cars in India and GM is hte number one in China. Both are nearly in the black.

Food? What about Pepsico, it makes profits in both countries. India and China's biggest FMCGs are Unilever and Nestle (EUropean I'll grant you).

[ninenot]

Not Harley Davidsons -- their roads are too cr**py for such bikes, but Ford and GM are selling qutie a number of vehicles there.

BS. Harley is blocked by PRC regs, and when PRC put on a "show" of changing its regs, suddenly, the cities in PRC had regs restricting Harley sales. (I'm in Milwaukee metro--and I've followed this closely.)

As to the Big Three: they made a BIG SHOW of telling us that PRC would allow them to import 250,000 cars from US to PRC in 2004.

250,000. Wow. US market is 18 million cars/trucks.

Yeah. Toothpaste and soap will redound to the HUGE benefit of US workers....