Nice pictures in China, thanks. Meanwhile, I am really pleased about this dailynews.yahoo.com
<QUALCOMM has opened a research and development facility in Beijing, China, that is designed to speed introduction of 3G (third generation) wireless communications in the world's most populous country.
The company, which created the CDMA ... digital wireless standard, said its new 43,000-square-foot CDMA Development Center is located in what is called "China's Silicon Valley." The facility will provide training, support and equipment testing services to manufacturers and mobile carriers in China, and it will support research and development of 3G wireless standards based on CDMA.
Qualcomm's CDMA University also is based at the center, offering classroom and hands-on training programs.
Supporting Local Research
"Through our CDMA University and technology transfer programs, the center will support localized research and development in China, supporting Qualcomm technologies and applications such as cdmaOne, CDMA2000 1x/1xEV and the BREW (binary runtime environment for wireless) platform," said Qualcomm chief executive Irwin Jacobs.
"It will also support the transfer of hardware and software technologies for product development and manufacturing, as well as implementation methods to licensed manufacturers, carriers and government bodies in China," Jacobs added.>
For years I have ranted that Q! needs to do that. <... way back in the mid 1980s I was advocating BP Oil set up shop in India and China because there are vast hordes of under-educated high IQ women [and others] living there who would love to get free of cultural revolutions, rice paddies, dirt and militaristic repression. Turn them loose on R&D and the WWeb and watch the world improve very very fast...>
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A bit of history. In the early 1900s, one of my grandfathers was running some Standard Oil business in Dalian and Shanghai. It all turned to custard as China fell apart, Japan invaded, Russia too and my mother [who was born in China] her brother and their parents left for New Zealand.
Now, 100 years later, here are the foreigners back in China with the latest technological marvel, CDMA. Oil is old-hat now [and incidentally, the price is falling so that will help boost economic recovery].
I am hopeful that this isn't Groundhog Day writ large. Groundhog Day, for those who don't know, is a movie in which a reporter was trapped endlessly in repeating the same day until he got it right - a LOT went wrong each day and he died each day, only to be born again at 6am to repeat events again, but with changes each time trying to avoid the unpleasant outcome. He eventually got it right and got the girl. transparencynow.com
There seems zero prospect of Japan, Russia [or Korea] causing any problem in China so no reprise is really on the cards. But it would be nice if Taiwan and China were harmonious. The links are ever-increasing, so I expect a war is unlikely; Bush seems to be on a short leash with Rice and Powell ensuring the Condominium and Colinisation continues gently. Scowcroft, Clinton, Elder Bush and others all want China to happily continue economic development and international integration. Democracy might be nice but hopefully George and others are not obsessive about it - it's not whether a cat is black or white, it's whether it catches mice. People's lives in China are rapidly improving - a copy of the USSR switch to democracy and capitalism would NOT be fun for people in China [or here]. A gentle transition is better than another bloody revolution.
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