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Re:Samsung ends mobile phone production in China by rasz on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:11AM (#21144208)
Who exactly outsourced to Japan?
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Re:Samsung ends mobile phone production in China by solotronics on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:16AM (#21144222)
The US.
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Re:Samsung ends mobile phone production in China by rasz on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:15AM (#21145694)
I think you will find it went the other way around. Japan even had foreign currency quota and ownership limits just like China does today.

Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c and sadly now paywalled article https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/09/30/j...

"September 30, 1990. HOW DID Japan destroy the American television industry? The secret history of that strategy reveals how Japanese manufacturers and the Japanese government first created an anti-competitive cartel ..."

also https://www.jstor.org/stable/43294946

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