Taiwan remains the biggest culprit: it has the capacity to press 8 billion CDs a year but has a legitimate demand for only 200m, says the report.
When Taiwan sent fighters of its own to intercept them, the Chinese aircraft withdrew.
Taiwan was under martial law until 1987, and it was military courts under the Nationalist (KMT) party that often went after dissidents with charges of sedition.
America declined to sell Taiwan the most advanced weaponry on its wish-list; work on China's entry to the World Trade Organisation has intensified, with full American support; China was delighted that neither the administration nor Congress tried to block its successful campaign to win the 2008 Olympics.
Another possibility, says Bates Gill of the Brookings Institution in Washington, is that Mr Qian will politely be told that if China continues the build-up on its side of the Taiwan Strait, America will consider itself free to supply Taiwan with Aegis.How serious a threat?China's figures for defence spending seriously underestimate the reality.
But it is a reminder that the Taiwan Strait is one of Asia's flashpoints.
This week, 50 government MPs went on a trip to Taiwan due to last more than a week, making it all the more difficult for Anwar to lobby tempt them to defect.
Offers of help came from Mexico, the United States, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, Britain, Panama, even Guatemala, which itself suffered six deaths in the quake.
Korea and Taiwan have near universal levels of tertiary participation.
Thompson lives in Taiwan, where he is able to observe the particular social and practical nuances of the fast-moving smartphone and internet market in Asia at ground level – unlike many commentators in the west, who see only the surface sheen of Xiaomi's products.
The government was rattled enough to send 50 MPs on a trip to Taiwan due to last more than a week to forestall such a move.
