"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > You have a point re: CPU's but the Chinese already make just about
> > > everything else.

> > Chipsets? Disk drives? RAM?

> > I have no idea, apart from CPU's, which very few companies can keep up
with.

> Dunno neever is the short answer.
> But to get back to my original point that the US won't necessarily benefit
> hugely from China's expansion,...

That might be the case, but simply because there is an imbalance in trade
doesn't mean that only one party benefits. The whole world has benefited
from US and Japanese electronics. The USA will benefit from a billion
chinese making stuff cheaply for them, even if they can only sell a little
of the high end stuff back. A billion people is a big market, and even a
small slice of it will revitalise a lot of American industry. The end that
suffers will be what the Chinese can do better and cheaper.

J/

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