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Cook, Zuckerberg, Chambers, Elop All In China: What Is It Telling Us?

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is getting a lot of press for his trip to Beijing and subsequent visit to a factory run by the company's controversial supplier, Hon Hai Precision of Taiwan, which was accused by a labor group on Thursday of violating Chinese laws.  Yet Cook is just one of four tech industry heavyweights reported to have turned up in China over the space of just three days this week: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Shanghai, Nokia CEO Steven Elop was in Beijing and Cisco CEO John Chambers was also in Beijing.  

Chinese website Sina started a discussion today about what is to be made of all the attention being lavished on China by some of the industry's biggest names. What you do you make of it?  What is it telling us about the future role of China, with its big market and huge supply of engineers? What about the outlook for the U.S.?  Share your thoughts in the comment space below.