The only things my research has turned up is:
1) Today Apple launched a chinese website selling refurbished ipods and imacs, but no iphone.
2)2 asian chipmakers are likely to get the contract to make chips for the iphone nano, which is causing rumors that the iphone nano will initially be offered in China.
I just find rumors. What research causes you to say it has gone long?

It might be just speculations. It may turn short again in a day or two. Such things happen here.

I didn't mean to imply it will close long just that the trend has turned long.

I'm still holding short.

I'm holding short as well.

A lot of my stocks are going opposite ways :p. I'm still holding onto all of them :)

How's this for news... the iPhone has been available for sale in China for almost a year now.

Check out www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09hutchison.html

(The link is screwy... you have to paste it in your browser and go to the main page, and then you have to paste it into your browser AGAIN and hit enter to get to the article.)

"Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (Hutchison Telecom) and Apple® today announced that the highly anticipated iPhone™ 3G will be available in Hong Kong on July 11, and in Macau shortly thereafter."

"This proposition will pay off at POP$100 per share if Apple formally announces, by March 2, 2009 at 3 p.m. EST, an iPhone launch in China."

Hong Kong has been part of China since the 90's. Check out www.cnn.com/WORLD/9603/hong_kong/

This prop paid off before it was even written.

Hong Kong is a Dependency which comes under Chinese jurisdiction. Kind of like Puerto Rico and Guam are to the United States.

From gov.hk:

"Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Following British rule from 1842 to 1997, China assumed sovereignty under the 'one country, two systems' principle."