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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by FooBarWidget on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:22AM (#24131292)
Apple operates in China. ARM operates in China. Tesla operates in China.

Even Facebook operates in China. Their social network is banned (for refusing to comply to censorship laws), but the company is still allowed to do business. Facebook has quite a few advertisement deals in China.

Heck, walk down the street in China for 10 minutes and you'll see more McDonalds and StarBucks than you've ever seen in your life.

Since 2014 legal reforms, many foreign companies are no longer required to form joint ventures in China, and so own 100% of the shares (and technology).

Saying that "China doesn't allow foreign companies" is... unnuanced, to say the least.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by starky on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:09PM (#24139273)
>Heck, walk down the street in China for 10 minutes and you'll see more McDonalds and StarBucks than you've ever seen in your life.

Also KFC, I've been to China and Asia many times and I'm still surprised at just how many KFCs there are.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by coreblocks on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:44AM (#24143840)
Yea, KFC has been extremely successful in Asia, even though their US home market has been shrinking.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by FooBarWidget on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:42AM (#24140278)
Where they serve absolutely delicious local meals that you cannot get here!
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by greatjack613 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:31PM (#24136564)
ccp propaganda. Facts are Tesla was the first company allowed fully private ownership of ip in china. No other company has had that before.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by dirtyid on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:37PM (#24136647)
Lucent and GM had WFOE arrangements (certain plants) in the mid 90s.

Artcile from 1997. https://hbr.org/1997/03/entering-china-an-unconventional-app...

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by FooBarWidget on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:42AM (#24140282)
I did say that the reforms a pretty recent, didn’t I?
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by dillonmckay on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:48AM (#24131501)
Not to mention the NBA, too.
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