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Dell To Leave China For India
halfEvilTech writes "India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, told the Indian press that Dell chairman Michael Dell assured him that Dell was moving $25 billion in factories from China to India. Original motives were cited for environmental concerns. But later details come up as to Dell wanting a 'safer environment conductive to enterprise.'"
Dell spokesperson denied the story this morning. Who's editing today, me?
Dude, you're not getting a Dell. Many of the internal parts WILL be made in China -- chips, circuit boards, etc. There's simply nowhere else that makes these things but China.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
> Just wait, in ten years, Chinese firms will be outsourcing there.
They already are planning to do so (warning: the FT restricts how many pages you can view, even if you register)
But it's not surprising. After all, pretty much all the Japanese auto manufacturers now actually produce in the US.
Go somewhere random
This is not true. Few of the chips are made in China. Circuit boards are likely to be made in Taiwan.
You may not realize this, but Taiwan is part of China.
You may not realize this, but Taiwan is NOT part of China. Taiwan follows the old government that existed prior to the "cultural revolution" that spawned the current Chinese Communist Party government.
No, Taiwan isn't part of the People's Republic of China.
You may not realize this, but Taiwan is part of China.
The truth of that statement depends very much on whom you ask. As things stand Taiwan is de-facto an independent country. The People's Republic of China (mainland) maintain that Taiwan is a part of China, whereas the Republic of China (Taiwan) maintains that they are actually the legitimate government of China and that the PROC has no sovereign authority. However Taiwan has had to take great care to not antagonize the PROC due to the threat of invasion.
In other words, it's complicated.
My company did. We abandoned a brand-new billion dollar semiconductor fabrication facility. Officially it was because we didn't have enough work to fill it along with our several other (non-Chinese) fabs. Rumor says it was at least partly because we were tired of competing with ourselves and our fourth-shift output. However, it certainly wasn't anything to do with fear of nationalization or the unpleasantness surrounding that Australian Rio Tinto executive who was arrested and is currently being tried in China for (again, rumor has it) not bribing enough people, although I think that should be at least considered. Since the Rio Tinto trial was front-page Wall Street Journal news yesterday, I'm guessing that today a lot of people who make outsourcing decisions are thinking about it.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
China doesn't sell us anything...
Lenovo will be very surprised to hear that. So will lots of other Chinese companies that you just aren't familiar with yet.
Taiwan follows the old government that existed prior to the "cultural revolution" that spawned the current Chinese Communist Party government.
When you say cultural revolution in the context of China, you are actually talking about a fairly specific event that occurred long after the civil war that resulted in the schism between Taiwan and mainland China. The Cultural Revolution occurred in the late 60s whereas the KMT's retreat to Taiwan occurred around 1950. The communist party in China preceded the cultural revolution.
I could just as easily say that the six counties of Northern Ireland are controlled by Monarchist bandits and that the national capital of Northern Ireland is Dublin.
Obviously we're talking about who has the monopoly of violence in the case of the ROC v. the PRC. For all intents and purposes they're separate countries, but if you want to play that game the Communists successfully overthrew the Nationalists quite a long time ago. It was a net negative for the people of China, but it is an accurate representation of the facts.
Wrong.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/series/tax-gap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance_and_tax_evasion
And a plethora of other results.
They "pay all their taxes" but thru tax avoidance techniques no where close to what they should be paying.
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