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[touchring]

I have only seen Western countries "kowtowed" to China in the past 50 years but not vice versa. Lke I said earlier, the Chinese government won't be hesitant in giving up even HUGE economic benefits for the sake of some stupid national unity or pride issues, not to say when it comes to the Internet. They have been so since day 1 (after 1949), Hong Kong and Tiananmen are very good examples. (The next willl be Taiwan, for those who are not aware of it. Those who think the U.S. will be willing or able to do anything about it are just plain ignorant.) For those who are eyeing on profiting from anything China-related, I would strongly recommend brushing up your China knowledge before investing too heavily by picking up some inventories unloaded by others.

Taiwan, gradual absorption would be inevitable over 50 years. Military wise, it's not the "huge" economic benefits at stake, but it would be fairly impossible for China to take Taiwan in the next 10 or 15 years due to the sea barrier.

The channel between England and France is many times narrower, and see how much firepower and tens of thousands of warships were required for the Allies to land (practically half the world's firepower), and that was after Germany was greatly weakened, and deadly engaged in Russia.

Also, China's army is mostly land forces, and supreme naval power is required for such a sea battle. Missiles are practically useless in occupation.

Even the Americans during WWII were not confident of landing on mainland Japan, with their tens of thousands of warplanes, and 5 dozen aircraft carrier groups, and hence the A-bomb was used.

[Honan]

Well there is already plenty of traffic on dot com. I have one domain getting over 200 hits a day. Dot com is well recognised in China and I don't think there is any real confusion with Gongsi. Most big companies are only going to go with an ICANN recognised address. In China I think you will find that the dot CN and its IDN equivalent are much more widely used that Gongsi, but both of them trail dot Com by a considerable margin. Whatever the hype by i-DNS Gongsi is no real threat to dot Com!

Rubber Duck

RD

Do you have evidence that .com is more widely used than .cn in china?

[touchring]

Well there is already plenty of traffic on dot com. I have one domain getting over 200 hits a day. Dot com is well recognised in China and I don't think there is any real confusion with Gongsi. Most big companies are only going to go with an ICANN recognised address. In China I think you will find that the dot CN and its IDN equivalent are much more widely used that Gongsi, but both of them trail dot Com by a considerable margin. Whatever the hype by i-DNS Gongsi is no real threat to dot Com!

Rubber Duck

Chinese.com or even .net is superior to Chinese.公司 based on similar keywords, but if you got something like 保险.公司 or 电影.公司, it will still be better than 99% of Chinese.coms in the market.

[Anthony Ng]

Taiwan, gradual absorption would be inevitable over 50 years. Military wise, it's not the "huge" economic benefits at stake, but it would be fairly impossible for China to take Taiwan in the next 10 or 15 years due to the sea barrier ...

Not to wander too far away from the topic, but those who think China is not capable of taking Taiwan militarily WILL pay the price (probably in terms of investment). That said, the Chinese government of the day know that there are much better ways (than military means). Listen to what the next Taiwanese President said (he's visiting the U.S. right now; and yes, Ma WILL be the next President of Taiwan), and you'll get a much better grasp of the situation.

But the bottom line is: the Chinese mainlanders (the ruling elites of every generation since 1949 TILL NOW) are willing to pay WHATEVER PRICE to prevent Taiwan from breaking away, and that includes bloodshed, loss of financial benefits and even international trade embargo once again, because nobody can afford losing Taiwan and going down in history as the "sinner". And yes, THAT is the mentality, for your information.