Posted on 09/18/2004 6:10:53 AM PDT by traumer
The "sell 'em the rope to hang us with" Capitalists never learn. Reminds me of an Italian automaker dealing with Russia during the Cold War.
They struck a deal to build six or seven Fiat plants there. Russia said "First, let's build one and see how it works". Fiat said "OK" and built the plant - and it worked fine.
Russia cancelled the others and since they had all the plans, replicated the first to build the remaining plants.
As an aside, there must be a Chinese version of the old Russia joke about their most famous inventor - "USRegPatOff".
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