How to design multi-language site in a search engine friendly way

Hi folks,

One of my customers is trying to sold items in both US and other
coutry, say China. I am wonderring how to design site in this
scenario. I get several opetions:

1) subdomain
cn.thecompany.com/item-1-this-is-wonderful-GUID.html for Chinese site,
us.thecompany.com/item-1-this-is-wonderful-GUID.html for US site,

2) subfolder
www.thecompany.com/cn/item-1-this-is-wonderful-GUID.html
www.thecompany.com/us/item-1-this-is-wonderful-GUID.html

3) deferrent file name
www.thecompany.com/item-1-this-is-wonderful-GUID-cn.html
www.thecompany.com/item-1-this-is-wonderful-GUID-us.html

Which would you recommand and why? any other ideas?

Thanks.

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