Assume you manufacture and sell "cherry picker" and other types of lifts used for maintenance work on buildings and structures. You've done well in the US but it's a mature market and you need to grow. There's a lot of buzz about China so why not try there. Not a bad idea but before you jump in, you'd better put on your Chinese thinking hat and size up the situation, from a Chinese persepective that is. Specifically, you must decide whether you can compete effectively with the local "competitors".
Viewers of China Central Television got an unusual glimpse last month of that nation’s cyber-weaponry: A video clip showed a military computer program on which an unseen user selects a “target” — in this case, a Falun Gong Web site based in Alabama — and hits a button labeled “attack.”
The video amounted to just six seconds in a state media documentary called “The Cyber Storm Has Arrived!” But it offered an uncommonly candid depiction of offensive cyber-capabilities developed by a country that is routinely accused of mounting attacks and just as routinely issues denials.
