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This needs to come with an asterix: profiles of the rise of the Chinese tech industry or its supposed move from "imitation to innovation” often forgo how Chines
by sqdbps 9y ago
This needs to come with an asterix: profiles of the rise of the Chinese tech industry or its supposed move from "imitation to innovation” often forgo how Chinese companies are entirely protected from foreign competition in their domestic market and that the Chinese government is forcing foreign companies wanting to do business there to share intellectual property with Chinese competitors.
It's a story about unsavory government behavior going unchecked not about private industry achievement.
- chrischen 9y agoAka their protectionism is doing exactly what it was intended to do.
- greatestdana 9y agoThey may be protectionist but their market is still 1.4 billion strong.
- bob_theslob646 9y agoWhat does that even mean? That is like me saying something like this: they may be 1.4 billion strong, but most me are considered unhappy and sexually frustrated by policy design. >China has many millions more men than women, a hangover of the country's one-child policy, which was overturned in 2015, though its effects will last decades more. The gender imbalance is making it hard for many men to find a partner – and the gap is likely to widen. >By 2020, it’s estimated there will be 30 million more men than women looking for a partner. In his book, The Demographic Future, American political economist Nicholas Eberstadt cites projections that by 2030, more than a quarter of Chinese men in their 30s will not have married. (http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170213-why-millions-of-chinese-men-are-staying-single http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170213-why-millions-of-ch...)
- dmix 9y agoSo 2.14% (30 million / 1.4 billion) of the males are potentially sexually(?) frustrated as monogamy is not an easy option for them, how is this relevant to the discussion exactly?
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- fspeech 9y agoThose who complain that nothing has been done about China seem to be unaware of export control, Wassenaar Arrangement and CFIUS.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoWhich are exceptionally narrow and target too narrow of technologies to make much difference from a GDP perspective. I used to work CFIUS issues for the DoD and can tell you that the government preventing tech from being exported when both parties (developer and acquirer) want to share basically never happens.
- fspeech 9y agoGovernments think of technology as products, but of course it is people that possess knowledge. Unless you cut off connections amongst people, eventually knowledge will diffuse.
- RobertoG 9y ago"government behavior going unchecked" by who?
- sqdbps 9y agoWTO and counter measures by affected countries.
- howlingfantods 9y agoSeems like it’s more of a story about savvy government policy leading to the rise of a robust domestic industry.
- galieos_ghost 9y agoyet when the US practices protectionism it's the end of the world. Reality is that our 'allies' get rich by abusing trade agreements to act as middlemen for China
- zajd 9y agoWhat's unsavory about it? Why should the Chinese care about American IP laws? Also I encourage you to look up how much the US has respected IP law when the shoe was on the other foot. http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/