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It's also possible that amidst the trade war China vs US, a few people in the US fed a business-oriented outlet about Chinese spying. You can add micro chips in
by mtw 8y ago
It's also possible that amidst the trade war China vs US, a few people in the US fed a business-oriented outlet about Chinese spying. You can add micro chips in a few Supermicro servers and Bloomberg journalists would eat the story like candy. This would dramatically decrease electronics imports from China, and putting even more pressure for trade talks. See the Vice President's speech yesterday .
I could be wrong. But we had previously paranoia about Japanese corporate spying 40 years ago.
- bas 8y agobingo
- Mankaninen 8y agoI agree with this thinking. It is also possible that competitors to multi-billion contract being awarded to AWS by DoD wants an argument to distributing the contract among many cloud suppliers to reduce risk. Bloomberg has worked with this story for a year - is that a man-year or a calendar year? If the latter, both trade-war and the DoD contract are less probable.
- onemoresoop 8y agoThis is exactly what i was thinking as well. And I am aware i could be wrong too but it is also a possibility we should not discount
- AnthonyMouse 8y ago> It's also possible that amidst the trade war China vs US, a few people in the US fed a business-oriented outlet about Chinese spying. On the other hand, "vehemently deny this or our business relationship will be soured" is exactly what you would expect from China on this. It's not as if censorship isn't in their playbook or putting a lid on this isn't in their interest. It would be very disappointing to see US companies cowed by something like that, but it's not as if US companies knuckling under to China's censorship requirements is without precedent.
- SyneRyder 8y agoFor anyone wanting a citation, China recently threatened to ban airlines from flying to China unless their global websites (including outside of China) were changed to list Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau as part of China: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/qantas-to-refer-to-taiwan-as-territory-following-chinese-demands/9833606 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/qantas-to-refer-to-tai... Several American airlines (Delta, American, United, Hawaiian) agreed to comply: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/u-s-airlines-are-said-to-accept-chinese-demand-on-naming-taiwan https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/u-s-airli...