"One trend that we do know is already in place is China; not only is it growing, but it has a phenomenal amount of resources -- including its population," says Richard Schmidt.

In his Stellar Stock Alert., he states, "To increase our holdings of Chinese-based companies, we are now adding China Mobile Limited (NYSE: CHL) to our growth stock buy list."

"With one of the world's largest populations, China has all the human resources it needs to continue to expand.

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"Holding both of China's largest wireless carriers -- China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) and China Unicom (NYSE: CHU) gives investors something of a hedge in the event that one company takes a large amount of business from the other," says China expert Jim Trippon.

In his The China Stock Alert, he adds, "Although this is a safety measure for investors, we don't expect massive erosion in either company's subscriber base as the telecom sector and 3G service continue to expand in China.

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"My favorite conservative idea for 2008 is China Mobile (NYSE: CHL)," says Tony Sagami, editor of The Asia Stock Alert. "Because of instant delivery and low cost, text messaging has rapidly become a wildly popular means of communication among young people.

"Text messaging over SMS (Short Messaging System) wireless systems is very popular in America. But one country sends more text messages than anybody else in the world: China.

"One out of every two SMS text messages sent in the world are sent in China. Typically, the cost of a text message in China costs about 10 fen (or 1 cent), so we're talking about a mountain of money. Indeed, in China mobile phone users are expected to send over 1 trillion text messages by the end of this decade.

"For investors, that gargantuan growth spells opportunity. And in China, the company poised to serve and profit from this trend is China Mobile, the largest wireless phone company in the world with 356 million subscribers and a dominant share of the rapidly growing Chinese wireless market.