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Re:State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise by lettergram on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:26PM (#21879447)
> The largest portion of assistance, about $46 billion, comes from loans, credit lines and other assistance from state lenders, the Journal’s review showed. The company saved as much as $25 billion in taxes between 2008 and 2018 due to state incentives to promote the tech sector. Among other assistance, it enjoyed $1.6 billion in grants and $2 billion in land discounts.

My only statement is that I wouldn’t call tax subsidies government support. Support implies giving something to the company. Bailouts are arguably support, not taxing a key industry is not exactly support.

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Re:State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise by chishaku on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:44PM (#21879544)
> Support implies giving something to the company.

I can understand that interpretation. From a public policy perspective though, tax subsidies are explicit support.

Take an example that came up a lot in these forums, Amazon's HQ2 deal with NYC and NY state. Tax incentives were the bulk of the deal.

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