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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....

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....

Ok, the PRC buys 250,000 cars from us in 2004. How many did they buy from us in 2000? 1000? 2000? That's phenomenal growth.

By 2010, they'll buy millions of cars from us. See the big picture, the long term view.

Toothpaste and soap -- you'rethe one who asked for what consumer goods are sold by American companies. What about Pepsico? our companies dominate the consumer goods markets there because we have quality. They know the cheap Chinese cr** made there ain't safe so they buy American. And they'll buy even more American as time goes by -- the statistics show a greater spending year on year. Japan's recession is fading BECAUSE CHINESE are buyign Japanese goods. Ditto for the US, this WILL happen as China pulls itself up (hopefully it'll become a democracy like India, otherwise everything goes bust...