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You can bet Beijing will retaliate and ban even more US companies.
by hmate9 6y ago
You can bet Beijing will retaliate and ban even more US companies.
- WanderPanda 6y agoAre there any left unbanned?
- lima 6y agoThere's plenty of US companies operating in China.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoBut only under Chinese law, which means they have to be founded and led by a Chinese national, and the Party has to be involved. That's before conforming to their censorship and social credit policies comes in.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI wonder how ownership of the Apple stores in China works.
- bildung 6y agoThis is wrong, the most common type of foreign investment uses "Wholly foreign-owned enterprises" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_foreign-owned_enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_foreign-owned_enterpris...
- xiphias2 6y agoTesla is the most interesting one. Elon was so happy about it, but I'm sure it will come back to him in time. Still, it was worth it even if China steals all of Tesla's IP.
- WanderPanda 6y agoI would be interested if you could elaborate more. Do you think they can gain much more from that factory than from disassembling a model 3? For me it is hard to grasp what kind of information would be valuable. Would it be granular things like temperature curves of some oven or rather the wholistic integration and automation? I think that Elon believes their edge is in moving so fast, that copying them is not viable (that is also what he referred to when the whole moat thing came up with Warren Buffet). I hope it works out for them as I love their products and also hope that Elon gets rewarded for the risk, hardships and brilliance he put into it.
- refurb 6y agoOh no! What will all the US companies already forced out of China do!?!
- verroq 6y agoChina has always been an unequal playing ground for foreign companies. If you want Chinese money, then you get your local Chinese partner company and start the technology transfer. It’s only fair Chinese companies in America receive some reciprocal treatment.
- bagacrap 6y agoexcept the ones buying manufacturing capacity