Can't find any better sources than "The People's Daily"? Please, I know you have better source links than that.
While I find this revolting, any honest assesment shows Microsoft is far behind other US corportations when it comes to selling out to China. Read Business Week's article outlining this deal:
"Microsoft botched efforts in China by failing to make friends with the Chinese government early on. The software company may be making up for lost time."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2006/tc20060426_405461.htm
What they're obviously referring to is companies like IBM, that have been building huge factories over in China since the 90's. So Microsoft is going to buy $700 million in Chinese hardware each year? Big deal, IBM sold the Chinese government their $10 Billion/year PC business last year, so this deal won't even be earning the Chinese 1/10th of that new business they just got from IBM. How much hardware do you think other companies like HP are buying from China each year? A lot more than $700 million I'm sure as well.
So while this new Microsoft deal stinks, and Gates is now sucking up to the Chinese like IBM and others taught him, try to keep some perspective. And posting links from The People's Daily isn't going to offer much.
At this point we're stuck hoping the "freetraitors" are right, because the sellouts of our technology to China have reached full throttle. And if the technology is going to be allowed to flow, we better at least get paid for it.