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Does Microsoft Need China?
angkor writes "Does Microsoft Need China? Interesting article from CFO.com's perspective on MS pricing strategies in the developing world: 'Put another way, Microsoft is relying on current pricing and a goodly portion of the world's tech growth to sustain its 31 percent net profit margins. But an increasing portion of global tech growth will come from Asia's burgeoning economies. And it's precisely in Asia--with China in the lead--that pressure to alter the uniform pricing structure for its software is the strongest in the world...'"
Taiwan province WAS, IS, and WILL ALWAYS BE part of China. The history tells. I believe that no one would like to see the war between us and our Taiwan people, since we are all Chinese. However, some people (in Taiwan and out there in the world) have never given up leading Taiwan to the WRONG direction. That's why we mainland people will never give up getting taiwan back with our forces. Taiwan problem is set to be solved near year 2020. I'm about to see that day. I wish that day we would see smile rather than blood. Sorry for my poor English, I've tried my best to make myself clear.
hi, it's nice to know what other people in the world out there think about China :)
here is my opinion, still, I'll try my best to make myself clear, I hope someday I could speak English more fluent, so that I could help other people in the world know more about The People's Republic of China :)
that depends what you mean by "part of china". i have no problem with the concept that taiwan be considered part of a single country that includes the mainland. however, the mainland is currently under the control of a non-democratic, illegitimate government, and taiwan has a fledgling democratic government.
It's great to hear that you have no problem with the concept that taiwan and mainland are parts of a single country. That's the policy undergoing for such a long time: a single China and the mainland and taiwan explains "single China" to their needs. That's a gray zone that keeps us in peace for so long. There've been always some people try to "clear things out", including those who want to make taiwan an independent "country". Once that happens, we would get taiwan back with our forces - then, there would be clearly only one China - the PRC - we "clear things out", too.
I think it's a better but short term policy to keep things as they were. Then, with enough time and enough faith of both taiwan people and us mainland, we sure could get this problem solved peacefully.
And, as you've mentioned: non-democratic and illegitimate. Would you agree that sometimes these words are not so easy to be defined clearly? I have to admit that ONCE I've been disappointed about democracy status here in mainland. Yea, I've seen a lot of good things there in developed countries like America, I've read as much as I could during my college life to find out why the America is so powerful.
Then one day, I deeply realized that: China is my OWN country, it's better for me to DO SOMETHING rather than JUST CRITICIZING. I've written something here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119275&cid=100 74920 about my viewpoints of democracy, I would like to share them with you:) And I can't say I know much about taiwan's government, though I've read a lot of book written by Li'Ao http://www.fact-index.com/l/li/li_ao.html who keeps disclosing what's behind the taiwan politics.
it seems CCP mind control is working perfectly. the CCP has indoctrinated you with nationalism, and now exploits it to cloud your judgement on the taiwan issue. tell me: why is it that taiwan, with a market economy and democratic government, is going the "WRONG" way, and PRC, under illegitimate control of CCP, is going the "right" way?
"mind control" is something really interesting to be discussed, how do we possibly know ourselves or other people are mind controlled? What I can say is, we DO make our judgement on things BASE UPON our education, life experience, informations we hold, etc. I can tell you that, I've been through a period of self-awakening (I don't know which word would be better), and my interest in philosophy helps me know much about myself :)
Sorry, my limited English ability prevents me from going deeply into some philosophy things, I can express myself better if I could communicate with you in Chinese.
Here is my answer to your question about "WRONG" or "right" way: despite the economy and democratic things, those people who've been trying to make taiwan to be an "independent country" ARE going the WRONG way. That's it. We, the mainland, has been ready to negotiate ANYTHING with taiwan government under the condition of they formally admit that there is "only a single China" (whatever they would like to explain that express). We even allow them to keep their army! Isn't that enough?! They just say: yea, we taiwan government admit that, there is only a sin