[backslacker]

1 Billion Chinamen making less than $1000 a year is not a huge market.,

Do you have a source for your numbers? These numbers below are from the C.I.A.'s website ( http://www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/ch.html

GDP: purchasing power parity - $7.262 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,600 (2004 est.)

Yup, that's right: China's economy is about sixty-two percent of the USA's!

Unocal shareholders: Vote YES to Chevron's bid, NO to China's takover bid.

[Southack]

"Yup, that's right: China's economy is about sixty-two percent of the USA's!"

No, that's the bureaucrats at the CIA claiming that Chinese can live at 62% of our standard of living. Note their term "purchasing power parity" rather than actual Dollars.