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...Liao's talking about safety, not business. There are some 300,000 Taiwanese on the mainland, many running factories, and they are learning that China is a dangerous place?for them in particular. Since Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province, Taiwanese have about the same standing as stateless people. Says Taipei's Deng Chen-chung, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council: "We have to admit that there's little we can do for our Taiwanese businessmen in China." Taipei's powerlessness and Beijing's cold shoulder mean that businesspeople are "on their own, like orphans," according to Isao...
...Dongguan, another Guangdong industrial hub, there are more than 50,000 Taiwanese, and things there are pretty hairy. Mainland police confirm that eight of the 14 murders of Taiwanese on the mainland last year took place in Dongguan. But Hayes Lou, secretary-general of the Dongguan Taiwanese Businessmen's Association, estimates that 30 to 40 Taiwanese die in the city each year, including accident victims. A year ago, two Taiwanese brothers managing a plastics plant were murdered by a pair of migrant workers they had fired. The brothers were bludgeoned with metal pipes. "I went there and saw," Lou says...
...more kindly, intensely focused on secondary issues. Much of the administration's foreign policy energy has been expended on pitching for missile defense. But for most of the international community (and even the U.S. security establishment), protecting the U.S. mainland against an as-yet hypothetical threat of attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles is not exactly a pressing concern - indeed, it's as if the U.S. has gone off on something of a tangent. Washington will be indulged - what does Putin have to lose by engaging in lengthy negotiations over the scope of the system if the U.S. is going...
...These days Chinese PDA makers are hungrily pursuing customers like Gao, who represent long-term salvation from a price war in the mainland's fledgling but fast-growing PDA market. There are as many as 100 rivals in this slugfest, ranging from market leaders Hi-Tech Wealth, Meijin and Legend Computers, to manufacturers better known for selling refrigerators. Their tactics are predatory. In brutal marketing campaigns with names like Plan A (inspired by a popular Jackie Chan action flick), they have cut prices by a gut-wrenching 40%. "I'm the worst one when it comes to challenging...
...locals fight it out, multinationals?with the exception of Microsoft?remain warily on the sidelines, unsure if they can profit in China's savage market. Today, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have a combined market share of under 3%; Palm and IBM don't even sell PDAs on the mainland and there isn't enough Mandarin software to spur consumer interest. "We know this is a weakness," concedes Franklin Sze, product director for Compaq's iPAQ in Greater China. Preoccupied with tough times at home and hobbled by supply problems, U.S. PDA manufacturers have focused international efforts instead on affluent consumers...