Of the stock analysts for Sina.com, most expressed hope “especially for the second half of 2009″. This is due to the waiting for government policies that are already in place to show results. So far there Chinese government has put a great deal into their markets in hopes to stabilize the economic downturn.

BYD (Build Your Dream) is setting the stage by introducing an electric vehicle to the world. What’s interesting here is that it’s one of the first Chinese automobile manufacturers to do so and BYD has a long standing history of building cellular device batteries which could give them some advantage in the electric vehicle arena. So far, their automobile subsidiary has been focused on full electric and gas-hybrids. The F3DM will be the first mass produced electric vehicle from China and available here in the United States around 2011.

Ordered to pay 400,000 yuan, the trademark infringement is one of the first wins noted in a while by many in the country. Warned of the infringement back in 2006, the infringement suit was launched in April of this year as reported by Xinhua.

Interesting enough, the logo of the infringing party is one of an apple that is fairly similar to Apple’s logo along with wings that bear some resemblance to the wings from the car manufacturer, Mini. This win for a western corporation that owns the exclusive rights to the Apple trademark until 2013 in China marks a beginning where the country is seen to recognize trademarks.

Oh yes, if you take into account that approximately forty percent of global cash reserves fall in the hands of China and Japan, and the fact that China is one of the largest lenders to the United States by investing in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bonds, then the story becomes a lot more clear. Americans spend too much and Asians spend to little, so the flow of money goes from east to west.

And don’t get me wrong here, but that flow comes with a price. As with any loan of money. Debt never comes cheap, as they say and this one doesn’t either as it drives the national debt higher and value of the US dollar lower into the ground.

Unfortunately, even the investment into America has had a drastic effect. With the latest downturn with toxic sub-prime mortgages, Asian markets are grounded in investments that were made through these bad loans. Which is also the reason why global markets have been falling when US markets fall.

Culturally, and interesting enough, Asians have a tendency to save, save, save…. while Americans actually created the consumer culture. Overall, the US economy can make a turn for the better by spending less and increasing more exports than imports. At the same time, it also wouldn’t be bad to get Asians to buy into more American goods. Believe me. They love “stuff” just as much as the next person. But somehow or another, I doubt that most people in China own credit cards and probably cash buy most things. Meanwhile, here in the West, we’re taught by television and other mediums, to buy now and pay later.

One day, the tables will turn. But until then, we need to quit borrowing so much money from Asia. And that needs to start at the bottom of the totem pole.

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Obviously from a personal perspective, I find it an atrocity. The bailout is basically shifting the consequences onto the American taxpayers, while allowing the banks that committed the bad decision making to exist and continue to make bad decisions. On top of that, there are clauses in the current bill that are along the same lines as the Patriot Act as far as allowing the Treasury Secretary to not need oversight. Thanks, but no thanks.

Of course, it didn’t help that CNBC World last night was showing what was going on with Australian banks either. Apparently they’re also looking to offload the “toxic sub-prime mortgages” into the $700 billion bailout. I didn’t know that American taxpayers were going to be paying for world-wide relief either? If the Aussies are looking to do that, then what other countries are looking to offload their debt into the American middle class? And why exactly should we put up with this?

Here’s the deal. Every single country that has encountered economic fiasco has made it through, without a hurried and “cowboy” attitude about how to fix things. Sweden has done it, as has Japan. It’s a long road ahead, but it can be done. But throwing $700 billion USD at the problem in hopes to make it go away is just ludicrous. This is no different than when the Federal Reserve cut rates multiple times in hopes of jump starting Wall Street. After the first few times, it really should start sinking in that it’s not working and maybe we should just ride it out.

If worst comes to worst though? The American taxpayers will get stuck with a huge bill that will take decades to pay off while the rest of the world just gawks in amazement at why we dig ourselves deeper into a hole.

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Easiest solution outside of carrying two phones? Carry one that can support both technologies. The beauty of the Coolpad phones is that they’re dual-sim phones and they can switch from network to network. From a phone technology perspective, it’s definitely a worthwhile look just for sake of convenience and price. Believe us when we say that two phone plans really beats out those nasty international roaming charges.

What’s interesting about this news is that two-fold. One is that there are a lot of foreign businesses that are currently based in China. That in itself is not surprising considering that China has become the worldwide manufacturing giant. The other is that a Japanese corporation would be investing with current markets since everything in China currently is in vast flux as shown with Shanghai’s index. I believe that this is actually and interesting maneuver for more regional growth.

While Japan’s economics has been in the dumps for a while now, and the Shanghai index has been on a roller coaster ride, the economics of the major countries in Asia have been one of the driving forces behind much of the world financial growth. One very prominent trading area currently are ETFs (exchange-traded funds) where in February of 2008, WisdomTree started the India Earnings Fund (EPI: 12.01 0.00%) which was the first India-only focused ETF. A month later, Powershares introduced the Powershares India Portfolio (PIN: 13.05 0.00%). Both of these show that the growth of these markets have obviously gained the respect of investment portfolio managers to actually have their own focused funds.

The other gigantic major up-and-coming player is China. In 2005, Barclays introduced the FXI (FXI: 31.46 0.00%) which was the first China-focused ETF. On top of this, many of the Chinese corporations that have traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ have done fairly well such as Sina Corporation (SINA: 24.68 0.00%).

All in all, if you’re looking to invest in world markets, there is definite some growth happening in the Far East. And with all everything going on there, the rewards seem to be worth the risk according to the professional investors. And while I could be out of my league in saying this, but hanging off the coattails of those that know-better is probably never a bad thing when it comes to financial speculation.

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Just by looking at this single little graphic, there should be no doubt from a capitalization standpoint that the Chinese market is worth every bit a look even though there are bears out there that scream bloody murder about how China’s a spinning out of control bubble.

But just by looking at some pretty simple logic should be reason enough to do the research into this market. First, they definitely have the population to support the growth at the speeds that these corporations are increasing in size. The reason that China Mobile (CHL: 54.23 0.00%) has such a large capitalization. Think about it. If your population that you serve is immediately one of the largest in the world and your major urban areas support more potential customers than most major metropolitan areas, wouldn’t your capital be higher than others? This is the simple reason why all of these corporations just by capital forecasts can beat out any most comparisons.

On the flip side, if you’ve paid attention to most Chinese stocks that have made their IPO on the NYSE, those companies are also a lot more volatile since they’re effected by not only the NYSE market changes but also Chinese markets.

Truthfully, China is in an economic upturn as they proceed to advance their technology and thoughts to more of a capitalistic market. What took the United States almost a century, China is condensing the same progress into about a quarter of the time. Due to this condensing, the markets will swing on smallest of news, but overall I believe that it’s worth my time for investment purposes. Call me a bull, but it just seems like the right place to be currently.