With a burgeoning middle class that would soon be larger than the entire population of the U. S. or Western Europe, surely there was going to be a huge domestic market for things in China.

中国的中产阶级数量正在飞速增长，即将超过欧美总和，所以国内对实际产品的需求肯定会很大。

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We've never paid much attention to BBK's phones in the past, but today, this Chinese company -- who's actually the creator of the Oppo brand for the Western market -- announced a rather interesting Android 4.1 device.

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But something much more prosaic is at play in this case--access to Europe's largest tobacco market, Russia, which, unlike the market in Western Europe, is not in long-term decline because of smoking bans and tobacco taxes.

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"Our country has made such admirable strides in nation-building over the decades that few, if any, would advocate implanting a Western model in China - there's simply no market for it, " China Daily says.

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