On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:38:10 -0500, Louis Ohland
wrote:


General Motors for one
see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010800178.html

General Motors Corp. plans to invest $3 billion in China in 2004-07 in
hopes it will drive a revival for the company, which is cutting
production and closing factories in its home North American market.


Rolls Royce [now a german company]
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...214_778537.htm

OK, but the leader of North Korea has, what, 60 some luxury cars? Where
the well to do can buy any damn thing, whatever the price, its no wonder.

Swiss watches
http://www.europastar.com/europastar..._id=1002727893

Hmm, Rolex sells watches to the Chinese.

Scotch whisky
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3954813.stm

Another shared taste with the North Korean leader?


cnc machine tools
http://www.allbusiness.com/manufactu...4503999-1.html

The new company will have $1.12-million in capital, with equal
ownership for the two parent companies. It will be located at Fair
Friend's existing Chinese subsidiary, which is already turning out some
1,300 machine tools annually. By comparison, the 20-employee joint
venture is slated to assemble 120 NC lathes annually, using Takamatsu's
technology and spindles and other key parts that Takematsu will supply
from Japan. First-year sales are projected at $7-million.

Meanwhile, Okuma Corp. (Oguchi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) expects its
sales to users in China would total $55-million in the current fiscal
year which ends in March. In three years, the volume could reach the
magic number of 10-billion yen ($91-million). The figures include
low-end vertical-spindle machining centers and lathe sold by Okuma
Machinery (Shanghai) Co., founded in 2001. Its products are assembled by
BYJC-Okuma (Beijing) Machine Tool Co., a 2002 joint venture between
Okuma and Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Plant (BYJC).


robots
http://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/goal.html

Other than luxury goods for the well to do, it seems china will build a
lot of the machinery it needs in china. So other than Rolexes, scotch,
and Rolls Royce cars, where is this incomparably huge market of 1
billion people?
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