Going Global, Flush with billions in foreign reserves, China is embarking on a buying spree
Nestled deep in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong's gritty factory district, China's leading cell-phone manufacturer is plotting to conquer the world. Hatched in 1992 to make pagers in its namesake coastal city, Ningbo Bird sold more handsets on the mainland last year--nearly 11 million--than Nokia or Motorola. But that was then, and now Wang Jianping, director of Bird International Ltd., has fixed his gaze three to five years down the road--on markets like Vietnam, India and Africa....


Effort to curb loss of work to China grows in Indiana, Smaller Hoosier manufacturers lobby Washington for a more level playing field
GREENSBURG, Ind. -- Rick Fayette thinks established manufacturing trade groups like the Indiana Manufacturers Association sell out little companies like his to China because of greed. So, Fayette has thrust himself into the international trade debate by becoming the Hoosier point person for an upstart organization that advocates a moratorium on new trade agreements and limited involvement in the World Trade Organization.The Indiana chapter of Save American Manufacturing Now has grown to 22...


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