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> no Western competitor will "win" in China. Period define "win"? To corporate America, making profit is a win. Even being the market leader is not a requirement.
How much profit does the Guatemalan subsidiary of Dole make?
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Depends on what you mean by "existing technology". Do electronic devices using quantum effects in solid state materials count? There you have the whole semiconductor industry. What about exploiting the behavior of charge carriers in vacuum? There you have the whole vacuum tube industry. Etc. etc. Before these things existed, nothing even remotely similar was being utilized by human civilization in our technological v…
> Do electronic devices using quantum effects in solid state materials count? There you have the whole semiconductor industry. That was invented by Jagadish Chandra Bose in Bangladesh, who built working millimeter-wave radios using Schottky diodes in 01894. Of course, he didn't understand the quantum effects, but then, semiconductor diodes were in wide industrial use (mostly in the rich West) for decades before Shock…
Is there a specific esoteric or cabbalistic reason to prefix the number of bygone summers with a zero? Both make for invalid octadecimals and have broken my builtin parser.
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Again, laughable. Care to justify that figure? That's not nearly as bad as the 16 billion Uighurs the Chinese have in camps right now.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/unworthy-victims-weste... Just say you don't care. The most unbearing thing for us is that you claim to care while brutalizing and fetishizing others to justify your own crusade.
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Allen Wu having the seal For those of us not familiar with Chinese business practices, is this an actual seal? Like someone would use to frank documents, or squish into hot wax to seal documents? Or is it a symbolic seal, like a legal document, or something else?
I don't quite understand this either, isn't this something where you could make a new seal with the same design? Does the original seal have something specific that's not supposed to be copied? Or is this like the copyright ownership of the company's seal?
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So, you contend that because the United States did something questionable 200 years ago, it's OK for China to do it in modern times. Got it.
I contend that it's foolish to expect countries to not act in their own best interest. When you cut them off of technology because you're scared that they can reproduce it, you shouldn't be surprised that they actively go around your restrictions. It's the only sane move, the move that our own country took in their situation, and one aspect that led to our own economic greatness.
On one level absolutely yes, however best interest can sometimes mean co-operating and taking it in the shorts here for a win over there - this is largely how western countries have traded amongst each other.
The Chinese government is much less willing to play the co-operate and we all benefit game which results in other governments having to adjust to that.
It's somewhat similar to what Russia did with their technology industry over the last 10-15 years.
Can be defended as rational from the Chinese viewpoint since they I think are planning over the long term (decades) to forge enough relationships outside of the west to be completely self-sufficient (that has been their goal for a long time in terms of technology IP, they don't just want to be the factory, they want to be the design bureau)
It does seem like the world is polarising around new nexuses of power, the traditional west with the US on one side, China and it's allies (some would say debtors) on the other and the EU somewhere in the middle but much closer to the US than China.
Where it gets interesting is historically those power blocs have formed where the world was much less interconnected than now and so I think that'll change things in ways we can't expect.
COVID has been an interesting lesson in disruption on a global scale (even if compared to how bad it could have been and it was truly awful - it was comparitively minor) and how fast things fall apart, throw in climate change and we are headed for interesting times.
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It's financially toxic for them not to invest in the Chinese market. Name a major American brand, and odds are you've named either someone who manufactures in China, sells to China, or more commonly, does both. When it comes to optics or money, boards and investors will choose money.
I think the parent was referring to making investments into Chinese businesses, not just manufacturing their products or selling there.
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I contend that it's foolish to expect countries to not act in their own best interest. When you cut them off of technology because you're scared that they can reproduce it, you shouldn't be surprised that they actively go around your restrictions. It's the only sane move, the move that our own country took in their situation, and one aspect that led to our own economic greatness.
> I contend that it's foolish to expect countries to not act in their own best interest. On one level absolutely yes, however best interest can sometimes mean co-operating and taking it in the shorts here for a win over there - this is largely how western countries have traded amongst each other. The Chinese government is much less willing to play the co-operate and we all benefit game which results in other governme…
As long as the USA keeps blockades on European companies selling to China whilst doling out exemptions to US companies, expect that balance to shift.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/unworthy-victims-weste... Just say you don't care. The most unbearing thing for us is that you claim to care while brutalizing and fetishizing others to justify your own crusade.
How many Muslims has America sterilized and brainwashed?
You've probably already thought of multiple excuses, because you've been conditioned not to think of immigrants in concentration camps as people.
When a market leader like ARM is forced to compete against last year's products sold at rock bottom prices (as Arm China will presumably do), it spurs serious amounts of innovation.