We never wanted to do any business with the Soviet 'evil empire. We embargo Cuba, we don't trade with North Korea, but with China it's O.K. I just always argue, why is it? Why do we single out China?

It's a dirty business that costs peoples' lives. Their money is built on people's suffering and blood.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

Florida stands to gain the most from open trade and business with Cuba. More companies have visited Cuba from Florida than from any other state.

So, it's actually a growing area of the business and Intel want to get into that area because that's significant growth there - and probably faster growth than their core microprocessor business.