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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by consumer451 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:02AM (#45577045)
The next question is: why did China give Tesla this unprecedented deal?

The answer I heard at the time was to get local suppliers and workforce up to Tesla standards.

It appears to have worked out for China quite nicely.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by eunos on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:13AM (#45577480)
Catfish effect. Ensure local players just don't become welfare queen mooching subsidy and incentives from govt both local and national.
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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by carlhjerpe on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:36AM (#45577227)
That answer is American propaganda, Teslas (especially earlier ones) are famous for their crappy build quality. Tesla would be nothing without the Elon hypetrain.

Chinese Teslas had higher standards early on, panels aligned and such.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by gman83 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:29AM (#45577189)
Well yeah, they used this playbook with Apple as well.
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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by consumer451 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:31AM (#45577202)
We do not appear to be very smart as a country.
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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by immibis on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:56AM (#45577336)
It's not a country - it's a collection of individual billionaires. Each billionaire involved in these kinds of deals gets richer, and has no reason to care about anyone else.
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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by consumer451 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:03AM (#45577386)
Yes, but we’ve apparently chosen to run our country in such a way.
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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by RobotToaster on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:51AM (#45578907)
"we" never got any say in the matter.
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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by immibis on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:22PM (#45583132)
By not doing anything to stop it, we agreed to it. No options to stop it were presented, but we weren't limited to the presented options.
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