Simon

Cumbria

IT

>>> Sonia Arrison ... "If Yahoo! isn't doing business in China, someone else will. It's putting American businesses at a disadvantage in the world marketplace."

Isn't that the oldest line in the book for justifying the unjustifiable - "if we don't sell arms to <insert dodgy regime> then someone else will".

Of course Yahoo, Microsft, Cisco et al are going to do what China asks them to - China is a rapidly developing country and they all want a good slice of their money. For example, Microsoft are going to want the millions of new computers in China to be running Windows - not something else that's going to get mass acceptance there before spreading worldwide to impact on their near monopoly.