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Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by sqdbps on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:03AM (#16637635)
This needs to come with an asterix: profiles of the rise of the Chinese tech industry or its supposed move from "imitation to innovation” often forgo how Chinese companies are entirely protected from foreign competition in their domestic market and that the Chinese government is forcing foreign companies wanting to do business there to share intellectual property with Chinese competitors.

It's a story about unsavory government behavior going unchecked not about private industry achievement.

Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by chrischen on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:13AM (#16637707)
Aka their protectionism is doing exactly what it was intended to do.
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by fspeech on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:53PM (#16639964)
Those who complain that nothing has been done about China seem to be unaware of export control, Wassenaar Arrangement and CFIUS.
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:03PM (#16640752)
Which are exceptionally narrow and target too narrow of technologies to make much difference from a GDP perspective.

I used to work CFIUS issues for the DoD and can tell you that the government preventing tech from being exported when both parties (developer and acquirer) want to share basically never happens.

Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by fspeech on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:49PM (#16641181)
Governments think of technology as products, but of course it is people that possess knowledge. Unless you cut off connections amongst people, eventually knowledge will diffuse.
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by greatestdana on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:31AM (#16637819)
They may be protectionist but their market is still 1.4 billion strong.
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by bob_theslob646 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:45AM (#16637897)
What does that even mean?

That is like me saying something like this: they may be 1.4 billion strong, but most me are considered unhappy and sexually frustrated by policy design.

>China has many millions more men than women, a hangover of the country's one-child policy, which was overturned in 2015, though its effects will last decades more. The gender imbalance is making it hard for many men to find a partner – and the gap is likely to widen.

>By 2020, it’s estimated there will be 30 million more men than women looking for a partner. In his book, The Demographic Future, American political economist Nicholas Eberstadt cites projections that by 2030, more than a quarter of Chinese men in their 30s will not have married.

(http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170213-why-millions-of-ch...)

Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by dmix on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:01AM (#16638574)
So 2.14% (30 million / 1.4 billion) of the males are potentially sexually(?) frustrated as monogamy is not an easy option for them, how is this relevant to the discussion exactly?
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by howlingfantods on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:49AM (#16637937)
Seems like it’s more of a story about savvy government policy leading to the rise of a robust domestic industry.
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by galieos_ghost on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:21AM (#16638789)
yet when the US practices protectionism it's the end of the world. Reality is that our 'allies' get rich by abusing trade agreements to act as middlemen for China
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by zajd on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:18AM (#16638156)
What's unsavory about it? Why should the Chinese care about American IP laws? Also I encourage you to look up how much the US has respected IP law when the shoe was on the other foot.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/

Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by RobertoG on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:47AM (#16637923)
"government behavior going unchecked" by who?
Re:China is now home to some of the world’s most powerful su... by sqdbps on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:38AM (#16638335)
WTO and counter measures by affected countries.