In the U.S., there are a lot of things they can do if they feel they're being picked on, but in China there's not a lot they can do.

IBM and HP came in much earlier (to China), so they learned the techniques of how to deal with government officials and the press.

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

The river looks totally different. It is so much wider, and the levees have disappeared. The pilots are feeling their way to find the deepest part of the channel because it is not marked. It is pretty stressful, but they're doing it. They want to keep this river open.

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

You can't imagine the furor that will come. It may affect us very materially.