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To: elmatador who wrote (58119)	1/2/2005 10:30:59 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

Yeah, this is one of the only two Chinese car companies which have some of their own designs and patent. All the rest of car companies in China are just some cheap assembly lines. And up to 2004, Chinese gov. still unreasonably punish Chinese owned companies in terms of tax, including all the state-owned companies. Cherry has to pay 33% of tax on their revenue, while all the JV or solely foreign owned companies only need to pay 7.5% of tax on their revenue. The gov. is talking about eliminating the tax advantage for the latter, not sure when will start.

To: elmatador who wrote (58119)	1/2/2005 11:17:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

<Chinese cars to be sold in U.S. will be priced at about 30 percent below competing models in the U.S. market, > Gee that's expensive! If they are anything like the quality of stuff I bought in China, or Made in China here, they'd need to be less than quarter the price. Made in China's quality is like Japanese quality in the 1950s and 1960s before Deming: lii.net Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (58119)	1/3/2005 1:34:45 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Many Governments knew but did nothing to evacuate coastal areas – global conspiracy, UFO threats or concerted failure? Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent January 03, 2005 Now it is slowly coming out that almost all the Governments affected by the Tsunami knew about the earthquake and possible Tsunami hours before their countries were hit. by the killer tidal waves. The only local Government that did not have a chance to react or evacuate was in Sumatra and Andaman Nicobar islands. Based on the analysis of the time sequence in which these Governments received information and failed or decided not to act is alarming. In Sri Lanka, India, Maldives and Thailand rumors in the main street are rampant that their respective Governments were told not to act by someone or some entity. Indian Military for example clearly got the information two hours before the Tsunami hit the India’s mainland. An Indian Air Force base was wiped out in Andaman Nicobar island near Sumatra close to the epicenter if the earthquake two hours before the Tsunami hit the mainland India. When Indian Military tried to inform the Government, the Government did nothing as if they did not hear. Same story is being repeated in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Maldives. How can all the countries decide to let Tsunami come and not evacuate a single human being? Some are concluding that the Governments knew of some experiments by some country, agency or entities. They were clearly told not to react because it was in a controlled environment. Or, they may have just asked to keep quiet. Recent alien contacts have been reported with the South Asian Governments especially India. UFO sightings have been rampant over the region affected. Some in Nicobar Island say that it was an experiment conducted by the alien extra-terrestrial entities to correct the wobbly rotation of the earth. And some of the Indian scientists are actually seeing that wobbly rotation of the earth has been corrected since the massive underwater earthquake and Tsunami. In Indian capital of New Delhi, faxes were being sent to wrong fax numbers so that nothing much is done even though the Government clearly knew about the coming Tsunami. People have started asking the question – was this utter failure or global conspiracy to accommodate some entity or interest or was this for the good of the earth? If this was an utter failure, how do you justify that all six Governments failed separately in their own domain one by one. According to some extraterrestrial UFO observers, the UFO sightings before the earthquake and Tsunami were very unusual in that part of the world. They claim the world’s Governments were told not to act for some reason. The most amazing thing is that United States Geological Survey and Ocean Monitoring agencies came to know about the Tsunami and earthquake but decided not to do anything. Well it seems the whole world decided to fail to do anything together at the same time. Are we missing something? Can it be that all the Government Agencies knew what was happening but were told not to do anything? Who told them? Or is this just a tragic coincidence? In Thailand some in the Government said, they decided not to act because that will just scare people. Really? Are we not supposed to get scared of scary things? indiadaily.com