To: TobagoJack who wrote (27616 ) 1/22/2003 2:28:45 AM From: Maurice Winn Respond to of 74559 <The investing future is in China, a wild, energized, and rapidly developing emerging market country on the twisting path of economic reform, social revolution, culture renaissance, and near the cusp of political transformation. In other words, the “next abracadabra”. The enterprise is financed by Japan, Taiwan, Bernanke and Co. and smiled upon by the benighted Maestro Greensputin, and is enthusiastically supported by J6P, voting with their credit cards. Here is my script, as described to Maurice sometime ago. Alas, Maurice did not and does not like to read next year’s market news this year;0) > Jay, I make the news. I define the reality which others read about later and experience later still [sometimes much later than I expect, unfortunately]. Even so, it's important not to trip over one's own feet. China is gobbling a LOT of CDMA. So is Korea [south]. Korea [north] will be gobbling within a year I expect. I don't believe there will be nuclear or other war between the Korean member of the Axis of Evil and the Crusaders. The Matrix of Malevolence will be enervated by the soothing dulcet tones of those wondrous cdma2000 phragmented photons and blandishments of cyberphones hotwiring minds to cyberspace. Kim Jong Il is already an enthusiastic cyberspace reader. He is being steadily reeled in. To be cast in an Axis of Evil with a bunch of medievil, superstitious, Moslem maniacs must be very insulting and he'll be keen to show that North Korea is as far from such people as is the USA. China is finally adopting my cdma2000 with wild enthusiasm. India is lining up to follow. It has taken nearly 20 years for me to get China on board and I had to get Mike Moore to be boss of the WTO to make it happen. Good things take time. Mike is a Kiwi who got his chance in 1984 when my plan to get Labour to replace National worked a treat. Clinton and co nearly blew it by blowing up the Chinese embassy [they set us back a couple of years]. Now, as you say, the investing future is in China. Well, more accurately, it's in cyberspace, but the main access point to that investment nirvana is through China. There are many other developing access points, but China is the place which can absorb megabucks of investment effort right now, at the right price. But watch India if they figure out what makes capital flow and they ditch the Marxist Mantra. Mqurice