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That's the problem with physical seal... A chairmanner can be declared by the board, and the power of his seal goes with that automatically. Say, somebody steals a seal now...
Sensible businesses usually keep the seal locked up somewhere in the head office, probably with a backup in a safety deposit box at their bank. They certainly don't let the CEO take it home with them.
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I have an honest question: why could China catch up to the western countries in many verticals and even become the dominant player, while in history the western could stay lightyears ahead of developing countries, no matter how hard the developing countries tried, with or without government interference or industrial espionage? What's changed?
> What's changed? Colonialism ended. The west was not light years ahead of, say, India, when it was first colonized. In the process of colonizing it, India's industrialization was stopped. Countries didn't somehow fall into 'developed' and 'undeveloped' buckets by divine fiat. The latter tended to be invaded by the former, with the occupiers focusing more on wealth extraction, than development. Once that parasitic re…
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The FARA act covers a person who “solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value within the United States” while acting in the interests of a “foreign government, a foreign political party, any person outside the United States ... and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.”
But an individual person is not a foreign entity, especially not if they are a US citizen. There is the loophole for "representing interests of a foreign principal before US government officials" though, so I guess this is written broadly enough to snag anyone who may step on some toes.
This is the standard Chinese operating model, as I understand it. Accept foreign subsidiary investment on condition of 51% Chinese ownership, transfer the technology, then turn around and compete with the parent. It was a similar story with maglev trains.
Standard US operating too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater " In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor"[2] and "Sam the Slate" because he brought British textile technology to the United States, modifying it for American use. He stole the textile factory machinery designs as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the United States at the age of 21. He designed the first…
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> US companies are extensions of the US elites (while the state is just a tool) Incorrect. In the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites, and everyone else all have competing and overlapping interests, and out of that democracy comes the sausage. In China, the system is specifically rigged so that the state always trumps everyone else, when it decides it needs to.
> Democracy is when the competing groups are "the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites" Americanist ideology is really something else.
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In fact, the US is doing all of those things.
Nope, it's only doing #2, and in far smaller numbers.
Guantanamo is an embarrassment but it isn't even close to the Xinjiang camps
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Nope, it's only doing #2, and in far smaller numbers.
I'll agree with this but the difference is drastic. Compare the number of people in Guantanamo to the number of people in Xinjiang. An order of magnitude of an order of magnitude difference. Guantanamo is an embarrassment but it isn't even close to the Xinjiang camps
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I'm not sure if we can attribute the gap solely to colonialism. Chinese rulers back in 1890s thought the products of industrialization were simply exotic crap. They despised STEM and didn't have a single school teaching STEM (there were a few such schools due to the Western Affairs Movement, but they were not created by the government). I don't think this level of barbarian culture was caused by colonialism.
In 1890s? In other words, soon after China lost the second Opium War. The British took Hong Kong and secured their right to poison the populace with opium. Are you sure colonialism was not at play?