[Mind-numbed Robot]

This is probably just a smoke screen to start using windows without paying for it. They will simply steal it. Even if they sell it, or use it, only in China that is quite a market. This has happened in most industries where companies slobbered all over themselves thinking of getting a large peice of the China market. China encourages them to build plants, etc., and then just says thank you very much, we will take it from here. How well are Loral and Boeing doing in China after showing them how to MIRV their missiles?

[blueriver]

One example:

July 20 2002
Motorola to hire 4,000 engineers and spend $1 billion in R&D in China in new strategy
Semiconductor Business News
June 7, 2002 (12:00 p.m. EST)

BEIJING -- Motorola Inc. here today outlined its new strategy in China, announcing plans to spend an additional $1 billion in R&D and hire 4,000 more engineers in that nation.

Tim Chen, the new president of Motorola's China subsidiary, also announced the company's new, so-called “2+3+3” strategy in that nation. The “2+3+3” strategy is an evolution of Motorola's previous “Four-Point” program in China.

The '2' refers to the company's efforts to make China into a worldwide manufacturing and R&D base. The first '3' refers to three new growth areas that the company will focus on in China, including semiconductors, broadband and digital trunking systems.

The second '3' refers to three $10-billion goals: annual production value to reach $10 billion by 2006, accumulated inputs in China to reach $10 billion by 2006; and local purchasing to reach $10 billion in China within the next five years.

The company will also hire 4,000 more engineers and researchers and add $1 billion in research and development to the existing 18 R&D in China.

[pepsi_junkie]

Excellent points. I posted once some stats from the government on exports to China and Taiwan. I did this because there was some event where China was saber rattling over Taiwan and as always Clinton was kissing Chinese ass and selling out Taiwan. Business was elated over it because everyone drools over the chinese market and fools themselves into believing they will someday get into it, even to the point of being willing to break laws to get there. And all the while China thanks them for their information and lets nobody in.

The stats showed that giant China, everyones dream market, imports from the US less than half of what Taiwan imports from the US. Thats right, we keep kissing Chinese butts and selling out Taiwan, our great ally over there, and all the while the Taiwanese market is TWICE the size of the Chinese market in terms of reality, not wishful thinking. Sheesh.