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CBID or Cai Business Indepth is a new English language service covering financial news and analysis. The company's website is www.cbid.com. An advertising campaign will start this week, and a number of other products such as industry reports economic data is expected. CBID has hired 30 reporters. David Legg, Managing Director of Europe and Asia for the Gerson Lehrman Group, helps connect country and industry expert providers with investors.

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HTC is building its own operating system for mobile phones designed to work closely with China's apps and websites.

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China's auto sales could finish up 2009 with sales up 45% year over year. Andrew peapple sees signs that 2010 will see a much smaller rise in sales. Part of the growth in 2009 was aresult of ahalbving of the sales tax on autos with smaller engine sizes. Competition is growing and it is lowering selling prices.

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China's interests and motivations in reaching a WTO deal. It interest in developing the trade ties with developing countries as it has not that much to gain from more open markets in the western countries because of its already high level of exports to these countries. It common interest in protecting "livelihood security" for hundreds of millions of farmers alongside India. And its concerns for food security alonside India with more than a billion people in each country and the current food crisis showing the need to balance industrial development with incentives and support for its farmers and rural areas. So it appears to be careful rational decision that promotes vital Chinese interest in its agriculture.

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The navy of the U.S., Japan, India and Australia to join the annual Malabar exercize in the Indian Ocean. The British Navy played a critical part in the Mediterranean, the Cape around Africa, and the Indian Ocean, during the period 1750-1950, and the Indian Navy now inherits this role from the British period.

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China is exceptional in the speed with which it is moving on infrastructure projects. And this bodes well for American exporters like Caterpillar which is seein g big jump in excavator sales, and for China which may see thre fourths of the 6.5% increase in GDP in 2009 coming from infrastructure building. Fortunately there is still a need for alot of infrastructure development in China. Typical is the approval and start of work on the $930 million Xiangshan Island Bridge which will extend over the East China Sea and through mountain tunnels. Caterpillar CEO James Owen says of approval and start of construction as fast, "its something like nine months in the USA versus 9 weeks " in China. China has agood pipeline of projects and alot of planning work has been done for many years. For Xiangshan Island Bridge this goes back to1994. Liu Cijun completed a PhD dissertation in 1999 on bridge wind resistance, and the Ningbo native is now Chief Engineer for the project. Preparatory work on the bridge goes back to 2004 and the stone cutting ceremony in 2006. In August the bridge's feasibility report won approval from aplanning agency in Beijing, and in December approval by the Ministry of Transportation. Construction started in just 11 days after the Chinese government approved the project. China's investment in infrastructure has jumped by 102% in the 1st quarter of 2009 from a year earlier, according tho the National Bureau of Statistics. By comparison Washington has distributed $69 billion of its $787 billion in stimulus fundsto states and localities, which have spent $14 billion according to the WSJ....

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Paul Mozur of NYT visits the Big Tech conference in Wuzhen, China, attended by large American companies such as Apple, Google. What he finds is very disconcerting, much of the technology can be used to track citizens of any country. Facial recognition technology, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are openly displayed and vendors including Unicom, show how this can be applied to track citizens. He sees the open discussion of how this data can be employed in this way as a sign of how much things have changed- showing how big tech surveillance is now an accepted way of doing things in China.