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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48876)	8/16/2005 10:25:21 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

<Over the past year, for instance, China grew at more than three times the rate of the U.S. economy. Even though the country's population is more than five times as large! China's capitalistic economy is rapidly making entrepreneurs out of one and a quarter billion people. It's creating billions of dollars in new wealth. And the investment potential for you and me is absolutely immense. In fact, China's industrial production is dwarfing that of even its rival emerging markets. The latest economic figures show production expanding at 5.7% a year in Latin America, 7.6% a "I don’t know what your views are on this country, economically or politically. And, quite frankly, if your objective is to make a lot of money in short order, it really doesn’t matter." year in the PacificRim economies - and 16.9% a year in China. (Meanwhile, the so-called G-8 economies are averaging just 1.9%.) Yet most investors I speak with have virtually no money invested in this region. It may sound counterintuitive, but this is actually an excellent sign. Because - as I'm about to demonstrate - they soon will. The Boom That Lies Just Ahead According to Andy Xie, a major economist who's communicating with us from Hong Kong, "China's rise as a manufacturing base is going to have the same kind of impact on the world that the industrialization of the U.S. had, perhaps even bigger." Incidentally, you may be thinking any investment in this part of the world must be fraught with major risks. But not this one. (This company's market cap stands at a solid $5.4 billion, for example.) In fact, what makes the biggest investment opportunity of our time so unique is its low-risk nature. So in order for you to understand the investment potential - and the urgency - of this investment, I need to give you a bit of background. China is already the world's fourth largest industrial base, behind only the U.S., Germany and Japan. Last year, for instance, China exported more than $266 billion in goods. As The Wall Street Journal noted, China has already become "the world's factory floor." Currently China makes: "China's rise as a manufacturing base is going to have the same kind of impact on the world that the industrialization of the U.S. had, perhaps even bigger." * More than 50% of the cameras sold world-wide * More than 35% of the televisions sold world-wide * More than 30% of the air conditioners sold world-wide * More than 25% of the washing machines sold world-wide * More than 22% of the refrigerators sold world-wide. In fact, a single private Chinese company now accounts for 40% of all the microwave ovens sold in Europe each year. A single company! The city of Wenzhou, in eastern China, sells 70% of the world's metal cigarette lighters. However, we're not interested in investing in companies that make televisions, cameras, microwave ovens or cigarette lighters. Not that there won't be lots of money made here. But we're simply not seeking to make big profits. We're out to make a killing for our members. A low-risk killing. And our "single-biggest investment opportunity of our time" makes these products look like very small potatoes.> from a report on internet..