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To: TimF who wrote (261094)	4/9/2008 2:14:49 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

The Asians in questions are mostly Americans, My point was simply that Asians seem to do very well against "Americans". It has zero to do with citizenship AFAIK. Which is why I put "" around Americans in my former post. What I was meaning was Asian vs. non-Asian. BTW, I have no comment on Chinese vs other Asians. And I really don't care if it is genetic or cultural. If you care to spin the data on Asians vs non-Asians seeking entrance to the UC school system (ignoring citizenship), I'd like to see what you can produce. Neither Microsoft nor some potential Chinese or Asian competitor faces a market of only the number of people in their country. I pointed out why that was an issue wrt to Chinese government attempts to define technology standards. You must either not have read that or don't understand the implications. Perhaps I explained it poorly. Much has been written about the subject. But as an example of how such standards impact things, you should consider HD DVD vs Blueray, an example of how the entire world can only support ONE standard. The industry has big tussles over the IP and its availability and who pays and who profits even though many manufactures will compete to make the same standard. The Chinese would like to use there captive market to forge standards, which because of the size of the internal Chinese market and the economies of scale the Chinese manufacturers will have in serving that market, then leverages into a world standard and a world market. The current situation is that most standards and IP have come from the west, but the manufacturing is now largely Chinese. The west cannot implement their own standards cost competitively with Chinese manufacturers. If the Chinese could only own the IP as well, they would have little use for Western input in the technology picture other than as consumers. To date they have not really succeeded in this last piece of the puzzle. TWT if they can, but the 1.3B is indeed a significant part of that picture.