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Dell To Leave China For India

Posted by timothy on from the in-these-troubled-economic-times dept.

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.'"

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  1. Wrong! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dell spokesperson denied the story this morning. Who's editing today, me?

    1. Re:Wrong! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Informative

      "There was no discussion concerning any change in how or from where Dell will source component parts for the computers it manufactures in Asia"

  2. Taiwan political status by sjbe · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Cultural revolution by sjbe · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Wow by stinerman · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.