China occupies a strange position in our collective Northwest consciousness. Somehow it's managed to avoid being identified as a potential antagonist in Red Dawn II, and the human rights abuses that we were so concerned about back during that Tianamen Square fiasco seem to have all been a misunderstanding or something. We're smarter than that now. The memo identifying China as the World's Largest Untapped Market has been distributed to just about everyone who has ever sold anything and we've seen the error of our ways. (We've also seen a few Western-style PR campaigns.) Any day now a billion middle-class Chinese will be clamouring for coffee, airplanes and software and Seattle has been working overtime to be in a position to provide them. more ›