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To: TobagoJack who wrote (70215)	8/26/2008 2:28:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

TJ Here's something for you to wave away with a casual flick of your wrist: Message 24879475 You can look upstream for what China should do instead - should have done a decade ago but the USA bombing the Belgrade embassy was understandably annoying. China has a speciality and it's working for not much money. Invention is not their forte. In the globalized world, each place has strengths to play to. For example New Zealand is good at borrowing money from Japan to revalue their houses higher. I disagree that that is a strength, but it has been very popular and New Zealanders think they have succeeded with that investment strategy. China's strength is knocking off inventions from intelligent foreigners, ignoring intellectual property rights and making the stuff from plastic instead of titanium, selling it cheaply to the gullible. Some knock-offs are good quality but is theft of intellectual property and thereby fraud. I disagree that fraud is a strength, but Chinese seem to think it is. Their "CDMA invented by China", namely TD-SCDMA, is in the fine tradition of knock-off.. People foolishly think it is actually supposed to do something in consumer applications. Hopefully China will ditch the TD-SCDMA and go Gung Ho with Qualcomm, Huawei, and others on making CDMA/OFDMA in 450MHz/700MHz/800MHz etc a great success around the world. HSPA/LTE etc are okay but there's a much higher royalty involved [12% vs 5%] since the Euros gerry-mandered the standard to include bells and whistles using their patents so they could get a piece of the action, ring-fencing in anti-competitive action the GSM base. Anyway, I have more than used up your attention span and been less than cogent. Maybe there's a 5 word slogan which could summarize the situation. Slogans are much easier than actual thinking. Unfortunately, slogans lead to problems all too often. And remember the slogan: "Don't let a slogan do your thinking for you". Mqurice

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