送交者: slashdot 于 2005-8-13, 16:52:15:
If you're a dissent, or your favorite sites are blocked, or you hate the Chinese government for any other reasons, you should invest in Baidu, i.e. buying their shares on NASDAQ.
The reason is very simple: there is a strong correlation between the government's iron-fist ruling and baidu's success. There are already plenty reports or speculations on this and I wont get into it.
Now, lets say you hate the governemt and have bought some baidu's shares.
If the goverment is overthrown, you're happy - you get what you want. But if the goverment remains in power, you will be unhappy but at least you have made a profit from baidu's rising share price and can buy yourself some icecream (or a sports car).
This is called hedging. Better explained here:
http://www.slate.com/id/77619/
But even if you hate the goverment so much you want to buy baidu's shares today, you probably want to wait for a pullback because the share price has gone up so dramatically on the IPO.