Re:China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies
by _iyig on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:53AM
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It sounds like you many think GPS is property of the global community, and access to it - which the U.S. freely grants worldwide for the public good - is some kind of right. It is not. GPS was financed, developed, and deployed by the United States government, originally for military purposes. It is operated and maintained by the United States Air Force. American taxpayers foot the bill for this maintenance.
If we return to your example, we find India prosecuting a war with the use of American military technology. How exactly is it "bullying" for the U.S. to deny India access to this advanced capability? India is free to fund, launch, and maintain their own GPS alternative for Indian military purposes.
Re:China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies
by chmod775 on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:55AM
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> India is free to fund, launch, and maintain their own GPS alternative for Indian military purposes
That's (more or less) what everyone is doing right now... Military use optional.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_S...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigatio...
Any aliens observing us creating 4 redundant navigation systems must think we're fucking mental.
Countries realise that US acts as bully when they can. China just is acting in its own interest. Though as an Indian, I have my own problems with China policies, the US companies crying about IP theft is just them not owning upto their previous actions(of shifting major IP to china due to cheap labour).