[AIG]

China's already #1 in cell phones, refridgerators, light bulbs, air conditioners, elevators, and various other product categories, even ahead of the US, let alone India. China is already #2 in PC's behind the US.

[Torie]

China's already #1 in cell phones

That one does surprise me, since it seems everybody in the US has one. Care to back it up? In any event, you are missing my points, almost all of them I think.

[maui_hawaii]

China convienently excludes the peasants when they do their economic measurements, and hence the economic 'boom' is only a measurement of the cream of the crop, in certain places, and even then, its inflated. China's boom came because the US was hunting for cheap labor combined with a President who wanted to save the Communist Party from people still pissed off about 6-4.