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Agreed China does business for China's sake, not for the benefit of anyone else. The Chinese government is extremely pragmatic and most Chinese people are consummate savers. If MS ever tried to up the price of Windows/Office in China most of them would look for ways to convert file formats for anything they want to keep and switch to a cheaper platform before they just go out and buy Windows. This is one of the reasons MS had to drop the price to pennies in China, low-cost pirated windows and linux forces them to keep the price down because of the nature of Chinese culture. And as long as those two are there (or even one), the price will always be kept down.

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