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US Senators Voice Concern Over Chinese Access To Intellectual Property (reuters.com)
Leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday they were concerned about what they described as China's efforts to gain access to sensitive U.S. technologies and intellectual property through Chinese companies with government ties. From a report: Senator Richard Burr, the committee's Republican chairman, cited concerns about the spread of foreign technologies in the United States, which he called "counterintelligence and information security risks that come prepackaged with the goods and services of certain overseas vendors. The focus of my concern today is China, and specifically Chinese telecoms (companies) like Huawei and ZTE that are widely understood to have extraordinary ties to the Chinese government," Burr said. Senator Mark Warner, the committee's Democratic vice chairman, said he had similar concerns. "I'm worried about the close relationship between the Chinese government and Chinese technology firms, particularly in the area of commercialization of our surveillance technology and efforts to shape telecommunications equipment markets," Warner said.
We sold our soul long ago when we allowed the blind capitalistic pursuit of cheaper labor to ship a large portion of our manufacturing capacity overseas, primarily to China. Anyone with a brain understood that by doing this we were giving them our IP and in the long term it would probably be a bad deal for us, but we allowed short term pursuit of higher profits to make the decisions and the government was perfectly happy to look the other way, as long as those fat corporate campaign contributions kept flowing.
I don't blame China. They simply used our greed against us. Well played, China. Bravo.
Maybe now is a good time to shut the barn door.
Don't forget how to properly differentiate:
- Worrisome Threat To Our Technological Edge: the Chinese/Indians reached in and took the secret sauce
- Shortage Of Qualified Engineers: we brought in people from China/India on short-term visas, taught them the secret sauce recipe, and forced them to return home.
- US Companies Must Remain Competitive: we outsourced the secret sauce to China/India to boost our quarterly results.
And these corporate blow boys are just now figuring out that dealing with China means they will suck every iota of technology out of your company and throw it back a year later as their own?
Seriously...it's 'way past time Americans at least made a token effort to get control of their government back from the oligarchs.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
They are a backward and violent people
In the last 50 years, America has been in over a dozen wars and military interventions. China has been in one.
The murder rate in China is one sixth of America's rate.
Perhaps you mean "official" violence against their own people? America "wins" there too, by arresting and imprisoning more than 4 times as many people per capita.
So who is more violent?
There is no secret to making "cola" {...} The Chinese did not learn to make cola by "stealing" Coke's "secret recipe".
What the above poster is trying to tell about is not the actual recipe of Coke's own spin on cola-based caffeined drinks.
(The recipe isn't actually that much a secret. e.g.: In several markets, local food and beverage law require the content to be explicitly stated on the label).
What is the key matter is that the Chinese owners of the outsourced manufacturing plant will analyse the *process* of manufacturing - i.e.: the methodology used by Coke to produce their drinks at industrial scale.
And that's the thing they can better : making a manufacturing plant better and more efficient at producing soda drinks.
To quote the relevant part :
The Chinese company then spent 10 years studying Cocoa Cola's products, workflow, supply chain, and so on until they understood it better than Cocoa Cola.
To make a much beloved /. car analogy :
they didn't copy the general concept of making a metal can box with 4 wheels and a motor on it.
they looked at how Ford's specific own-invented Ford process to mass-produce cars, they'll look into the basic feature sets that seem to interest customers and that manufacturer seem to concentrate on (everyone wants extra features like radio and cup holders)
then they'll get good at making not so bad knock-offs at a smaller price and craptastic "only in shape" copies, that sell at a fraction of the price but still somehow hold together long enough for the customer to buy them and only break down later on the way home.
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Eurasia is, and has always been, our friend and ally! Eastasia is, and has always been, our enemy!
Check your premises.