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Western democracies have done an absolute terrible job distinguishing between the claim of "It's a problem if all our Tech is Chinese because it puts us at thei
by Traster 6y ago
Western democracies have done an absolute terrible job distinguishing between the claim of "It's a problem if all our Tech is Chinese because it puts us at their mercy", "It's a problem that our open economy has to compete with subsidized chinese competitors" and "It's a problem that this specific Chinese company is, as we speak, using the information from their operations in the West to empower Chinese Military/Intelligence".
For the first point, I have similar concerns about US tech. For the second point China isn't the only country intervening in the free market, and on the third point I'm literally unconvinced that's happening and people often cite evidence of point 1 as evidence of point 3.
- suifbwish 6y agoIsn’t is a known fact that companys based in China MUST comply with whatever requests made to them from their government? This can include requests for all data and requests for write access to source code. I believe the Australian government passed something similar a year or so back
- redis_mlc 6y agoThey don't have to distinguish since all 3 are true. Regarding #3, all Chinese companies over 50 employees have a CCP cell, and recently the CCP has started to target all companies. You can watch the Youtube NTD/Epoch Times channel for proof.