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Why so many company of USA are blocked in China? Facebook, Google, twitter, Reddit ... But any company of China can make money in USA whenever they want? USA ma
by kuanyi 8y ago
Why so many company of USA are blocked in China?
Facebook, Google, twitter, Reddit ...
But any company of China can make money in USA whenever they want?
USA make CCP rich, but CCP wanna USA to die.
These should not be tolerated anymore.
- ausbah 8y agoBecause those USA companies can expose Chinese citizens to information the Chinese government doesn’t want them to be aware of. If you’re not willing to bend to the censorship demands of the Chinese govt, you can’t — or are at least limited in your capacity - to do business in China. It’s not like the US and other Western countries are letting Chinese companies run freely amuck either. There has been increasing scrutiny against large companies like Huawei that are in cahoots with the Chinese state.
- kuanyi 8y agoCCP is Evil. HuaWei calls on US, others to show proof of security risk. Well, here is the evidence. Could HuaWei explain what they help CCP doing in Xinjiang Concentration camp ? Why do they scan the data in oridnary people cell phone? And where does the income of HuaWei goes to? The Evil may ask "can you prove I am an Evil?" I CAN PROVE!!! BECAUSE I KNOW YOU MURDER INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE PAST, NOW, AND FUTURE!!!!!!
- dang 8y agoWe've banned this account for trolling. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.
- some_random 8y agoThe original idea was that if the West opened its economy to China, they would inevitably liberalize. Many years later it's clear that was naive, but that's why the incredibly one sided rules are/were tolerated.
- gaius 8y agoI think it was probably self-delusional. The billion-consumer Chinese market was dangled like a carrot, just give up all your IP to a local “partner”. But the Party never had even the slightest intention of giving Western companies access.
- withhighprod 8y agoI wonder what would Apple’s market share be with the whole China iPhone sales wipped out. Funny comment
- pacificmint 8y agoThe New York Times podcast, The Daily, had a two part episode on that very topic a few weeks ago. [1][2] It explored how China started opening the economy and how western politics assumed that between the economy and the internet, political change in China as all but inevitable. And of course how very wrong that turns out to be in hindsight. I’d highly recommend those episodes. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/podcasts/the-daily/china-rules.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/podcasts/the-daily/china-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/podcasts/the-daily/china-rules-part-2.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/podcasts/the-daily/china-...
- rchaud 8y agoThat was Nixon-era politics, and done in a cynical way to send a message to Russia. US-Sino relations were always somewhat tense due to the Taiwan question. It would have been politically costly for any sitting President to say "let's give the CCP American business". The reason economic liberalization happened was because Deng Xiaoping saw the writing on the wall. Additionally, corporate interests in the US (represented by the Chamber of Commerce) had been beating down the doors of politicians to relax restrictions on doing business there. If the appetite to offshore jobs was not there, there is no reason why the US would have made it easy to do business there.
- dang 8y agoThis comment crosses into political and nationalistic flamewar, which is what we're trying to avoid on HN. Please don't post like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html