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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by k_paleologos on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:56AM (#33754310)
Is government involvement problematic? Many firms have government involvement, often in an under the table manner. For example Airbus. Government involvement is in itself no grounds for banning a company.
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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by galdosdi on Saturday November 26, 2022 @12:19PM (#33754576)
Airbus is a French company. France is part of NATO. In the event of war, France and the US would likely be obligated to be on the same side by their NATO treaty obligations.

I don't think you are very informed on this matter.

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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by JPLeRouzic on Saturday November 26, 2022 @01:27PM (#33755218)
Airbus is not anymore a French or Netherland company (Airbus Group N.V). Since 27 May 2015 the company became a Societas Europaea (SE) (Latin: European Company).

https://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/actualite-econom...

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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by MattGaiser on Saturday November 26, 2022 @12:33PM (#33754718)
Which government is involved is what matters here. The governments involved in Airbus are allies.
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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by chitowneats on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:59AM (#33754346)
When that government is actively stealing your intellectual property, hacking your computer systems and installing ransomware, threatening war against an important ally...

And when the product is telecommunications technology...

I'm going with yes. The EU and the PRC are not even remotely comparable from the perspective of the U.S.

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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by rgbrenner on Saturday November 26, 2022 @12:00PM (#33754356)
These companies have a board of Communist Party members that approve all company decisions/actions.
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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by mytailorisrich on Saturday November 26, 2022 @12:07PM (#33754446)
Even American companies in China have a Party cell. This is the law for all companies above a certain size. Those cells do not 'approve all company decisions'.
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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by aworks on Saturday November 26, 2022 @12:44PM (#33754819)
On a business trip to China, I accidentally walked into our company's Communist Party meeting (and was politely encouraged to quickly leave).

I have no idea if company-specific discussion ever occurred. Our office was mostly junior engineers so company decisions wouldn't be made at that level in any case.

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Re:U.S. Bans Equipment from Huawei and ZTE, Citing National ... by JPLeRouzic on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:35PM (#33755833)
Like United Fruits (now Chiquita) with CIA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

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