economy - China's IT companies "doing agressive business"

Rebecca MacKinnon reports from the WSIS-conference in Tunis about the efforts of larger Chinese IT-companies like ZTE and Huawei, focusing on the developing countries.

They point out that not only is their pricing competitive, but having cut their teeth in a country where peasant farmers make up the majority, they say they’re simply better at meeting the needs of developing countries than their Western competitors. They also take markets in poor nations more seriously.

They are using a strategy defined in 1949 by Mao Zedong say some: “surround the cities from the countryside.”