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That sounds rather biased. Do you have any kind of source that shows (1) your statement is true, i.e. those investments indeed come with strings attached, and (
by lucb1e 7y ago
That sounds rather biased. Do you have any kind of source that shows (1) your statement is true, i.e. those investments indeed come with strings attached, and (2) this is actually different from other country's practices? Even if there is a source that confirms both, I'm still not sure it's good that trade stops rather than that the terms are altered. From my limited knowledge of this topic, trade is generally good for both parties.
- jorblumesea 7y agoHave you been paying attention for the past 20 years? Chinese investment comes with forced technology transfer.
- ccffdser 7y agoHow is it forced? If the company didn’t want to share it, then it wouldn’t accept the funding.
- lucb1e 7y agoWell I can see what s/he means: same as with an employer-employee relation, there is a certain power balance. They give you money, it would be bad for you to stop earning an income. Losing (or missing out on) an investor because of some nationalistic ideal about keeping China submissive to the USA... And it doesn't seem so important when you look at your own, isolated case: anyone could have trained this neural net, it's not rocket science, what does it matter if we 'transfer' the python script that we used? I can see their point, even if I think it's an overgeneralization and if I suspect every other country does the same (just that with China, we care about the human rights being violated there, or at least, that is my worry).