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> simply offers a deal that Qualcomm can choose to accept or not With China's culture of corruption, "or not" comes with a giant asterisk of "will face harassm
by will4274 8y ago
> simply offers a deal that Qualcomm can choose to accept or not
With China's culture of corruption, "or not" comes with a giant asterisk of "will face harassment from the communist party"
- majia 8y agoWhat you said is true in many cases, and it should be stopped. However it does not apply to Qualcomm. Firstly yunnan is an underdeveloped region in China, its provincial governement doesn’t really have the power to harass Qualcomm at a meaningful level. Also Qualcomm has strong leverage against Chinese government because its products are hard to replace. Recall what happened when Qualcomm stopped selling its products to ZTE.
- paulie_a 8y agoIt will end up applying to them regardless of providence. Companies need to simply stop selling to Chinese companies. It's not worth it due to IP theft. But hey the Chinese government will just steal it anyways.