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Nokia is just a name on the phone. The trademark licensee is HMD Global while engineering and manufacturing has been outsourced to Foxconn, a Chinese company.
by anilakar 8y ago
Nokia is just a name on the phone. The trademark licensee is HMD Global while engineering and manufacturing has been outsourced to Foxconn, a Chinese company.
- robjan 8y agoFoxconn is a Taiwanese company Edit: I am not disputing the "One China Principle". The fact remains that Taiwan is self-governed.
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- atzd4b 8y agoTaiwan is China.
- buildbot 8y agoNo, China claims it is, but it’s not.
- atzd4b 8y agoIf they ever go too far with their "independence", China will crush them like an ant, so yes, in a practical sense Taiwan is China.
- ElBarto 8y ago"China" claims it is part of the People's Republic, which it is indeed not. But both sides agree that it is China. Like Korea includes both North and South even if there are two states.
- oblio 8y agoIn practice, that's a useless tidbit. Would you rather be the average South Korean or the average North Korean? Their lives are completely different, those are different states for a reason.
- ElBarto 8y agoThat's not useless at all, that's very important and that's the point. Ask Chinese, ask Koreans. Also ask Germans or Vietnamese. You could also ask Foxcomm's founder.
- oblio 8y agoOk, let's clarify in the context of our topic: why would Foxconn's founder send data to the RPC government? Just because the Taiwanese are primarily ethnic Han?
- abc-xyz 8y agoI think Republic of China would at this point prefer to be referred to as Taiwan rather than China. This way they can also distance themselves from all the human rights abuses happening in Xi Jinping's China, you know concentration camps, medical genocide (organ harvesting), mass surveillance and whatnot.
- robjan 8y agoRegardless of the politics, Taiwan and China have different governments and Taiwanese companies are unlikely to be forced by the Taiwanese government to put Chinese spyware on phones that they manufacture.
- ElBarto 8y agoWhich makes it a Chinese company, yes...
- robjan 8y agoRegardless of border politics, Taiwan has its own government