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Jared Moya
December 19th, 2005, 01:57 PM
<p>Take Cisco. The company &quot;earns $500 million a year in revenues [in China] and holds 60 percent of the Chinese market for routers, switches, and other sophisticated networking gear.&quot; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That includes &quot;the watchdog router that prevents Internet users in China from gaining access to banned websites.&quot; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And it includes Policenet, which &quot;connects officials of the Public Security Bureau &mdash; a national agency with local branches that handle security, immigration, 'social order,' and law enforcement &mdash; to each other and to electronic records that store a wealth of information on every citizen in China.&quot;</p>

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DrainBamaged
December 20th, 2005, 09:06 PM
Come a year or two from now, you can substitute the name, "China" with, "North America" in that article.