From:	Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: China - PLA Macrotechnology
Date:	Fri, 15 May 1998 15:52:49 +1000

Danyel N Woods writes:
>Even in a protected market, they'd probably find it more cost-effective
>to
>>resell technology from other corporations.
>
>Yeah, true. I was referring to cyber and other stuff purchased inside
>China (a protected market; the 'open' market PLA-Macro just gave up on,
>but since 95% of Chinese can't get anything better, the domestic market
>is booming...) And what happens when outsiders want to buy cyberware or
>Matrixware in China? Guess who is the only corp allowed to perform that
>sort of surgery in China? <egmg> I believe that the current Chinese
>regime only believes in fair competition when it has none, so why should
>their successors start being open-handed now?


Because, as I pointed out in an earlier post, China has dissolved into
feudal states, ruled by warlords. It's highly likely that the corps would
force at least the lucatrive markets (the cities) open, especially seeing as
how they stole Hong Kong and set it up as a corporate-control free city.

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