That's from your perspective. China is claiming the opposite -- the chain of islands from Japan to Vietnam (which was once an American enemy now becoming an American proxy) are (or threaten to) blockading China's sea route. If you look at the map, they have a point too. In this world, the only real games are among the US, Russia and China. Everybody else are just proxy states parroting what PR excuses their bosses tell them to.
Usually the shell company owns the trademark, the domain name and intellectual properties, those are the most important assets for an online company, the domestic entity owns the operating license. The head (legal person) of the domestic entity also signed a contract to turn over all interest in the entity to the shell. Else what do you think VC's investing in?
If you actually knew about the history of RMB and its black market, you would know their manipulation was not effective or at most marginal. And the same practice has been or is being practiced by the US and most other countries.
Their stock market has 2 books, one set you can see, the other you can't.
Same in the US, especially before Great Depression
They sell pet food that poisons pets. They sell baby formula that harms babies.
Many of those "they" got death sentence and executed.
They have no respect for IP property.
Same with the US which stole most of its technologies from Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
They're poisoning their environment such that you can't see across the street due to air pollution, and can't drink the water because of some mining company upstream.
Same happened to the US and are still happening in many other countries. We just exported the pollution.
The news media is censored so that non of their citizens know any of this, except what they can see with their own 2 eyes.
Clearly you have not actually read their online news, likely because you can't even read Chinese and have to rely on your Western media outlets.
These barriers did exist mostly as (mostly failed) measures against frauds, but it hasn't stop Pony Ma from founding Tencent and Jack Ma from founding Alibaba, both of them came from a very humble background. Also they have been eradicated away slowly over the last decade and has been accelerated in this administration since they can no longer rely on old businesses to drive growths. For example, you can file a personal LLC in China with no capital reserved requirements.
That is true theory, because China has not been practice communism but capitalism for the the last 30 years. Keep up with the change of the world and stuck with outdated American world view.
We're practically already China, in terms of how the government functionally operates.
No, we package our shits much better. They have propaganda departments; we have marketing departments. They are starting to learn political marketing from us, however.
You should have been wakenup indeed. Also Xiaomi is currently being promoted by Chinese leaders (e.g. Premier Li Keqiang) as a star entrepreneur to encourage more hi-tech start ups along with Alibaba.
It is likely the too big to fail at play. Gmail is used by lots of people and companies. When you are too big, government will have to keep you running by either not hurting you or, as in the US, by rescuing you.
They mangage/manipulate their currency so that there is effectively a huge discount to all products and services in China.
That's a myth as pointed out in my summary. Back in early 1990's the official rate was something like 1 USD to 3 RMB but the black market rate was 1:8. Nobody would bring their USDs to the bank to get Yuan; instead they all found black market source to get more Yuan. Eventually, the Chinese government realized they couldn't pop up the Yuan and so let it fall to the black market rate. Currently, the black market rate is the same as the official rate. If it is really undervalued, I would think the black market would reflect that. In China, always look at the black market first.
from the reading of the article, it seems to work for Type 2 too but their research for now only test for Type 1? Would anyone venture to think why this will or will not work for type 2? (try to see if this will help my folk who has type 2.)
That's because Chinese people are complaining loudly that their government is too soft. (don't believe? read the Chinese news portals' user comments for some days.)
And, we are indeed very very good at soft power -- it is known as political marketing.
NIMBY is an unavoidable phenomena in advanced economy. With enforcement of environment protection laws, you can be sure of hazard over development and pollution, like in China for up to now. Then once it became a significant problem, people would rise up and complaint and started creating/enforcing environment laws -- China is now at this stage. Then once there are sufficient laws, some people will then start abusing the laws to protect their own interest, thus NIMBY -- even China now has had quite many large scale protests against building chemical factories in their neighborhoods.
Can people stay the middle way and be rational? No, and will never. The two extremes will have to fight and the pendulum will swing back and forth. That's why the Yin-Yang symbol is not gray colored but spinning black and white. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about. People will fight their way to balance in the long term.
All EULA also contains clauses like "We can change the terms of this agreement at will." And once it got enough penetration, a letter/email looking a like a junk will be sent to you inbox/mailbox with a lengthy legal statement of the changes and guaranteed 99% will not ever read and remaining 99% will not care a damn thing.
In this country, we cook you like frog in slow cooker powered by fine prints.
Fragmenting an existing standard creates a new standard that can draw in $$$. Everything else, national security, national pride, etc., are just excused to rip public funds. US or China.
and isn't open source meant to encourage such -- can you count how many Linux distributions out there?
If sina.com (and online news portals sohu.com and netease.com which all carry the same piece) are not major Chinese news sources, I don't know what can be. Further the original sina.com link is contributed by Globe Times which is a subsidiary of People's Daily and is considered more pro-government than its parent. PD's website also carries the same news. And why is the re-posting of BBC article even logically relevant to this discussion of censorship here?
Clearly another victim of Department of Education!
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So they should be getting 30X the revenues. And that's not enough to upgrade the system?
That's from your perspective. China is claiming the opposite -- the chain of islands from Japan to Vietnam (which was once an American enemy now becoming an American proxy) are (or threaten to) blockading China's sea route. If you look at the map, they have a point too. In this world, the only real games are among the US, Russia and China. Everybody else are just proxy states parroting what PR excuses their bosses tell them to.
Usually the shell company owns the trademark, the domain name and intellectual properties, those are the most important assets for an online company, the domestic entity owns the operating license. The head (legal person) of the domestic entity also signed a contract to turn over all interest in the entity to the shell. Else what do you think VC's investing in?
And that's exactly why it has to spend $1 billion there. Welcome to the game of start-ups.
But don't you know Alibaba was a Softbank/GoldmanSach/Yahoo company, and registered in Caymen Island? Your conspiracy theory doesn't fly.
Their currency is manipulated.
If you actually knew about the history of RMB and its black market, you would know their manipulation was not effective or at most marginal. And the same practice has been or is being practiced by the US and most other countries.
Their stock market has 2 books, one set you can see, the other you can't.
Same in the US, especially before Great Depression
They sell pet food that poisons pets. They sell baby formula that harms babies.
Many of those "they" got death sentence and executed.
They have no respect for IP property.
Same with the US which stole most of its technologies from Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
They're poisoning their environment such that you can't see across the street due to air pollution, and can't drink the water because of some mining company upstream.
Same happened to the US and are still happening in many other countries. We just exported the pollution.
The news media is censored so that non of their citizens know any of this, except what they can see with their own 2 eyes.
Clearly you have not actually read their online news, likely because you can't even read Chinese and have to rely on your Western media outlets.
These barriers did exist mostly as (mostly failed) measures against frauds, but it hasn't stop Pony Ma from founding Tencent and Jack Ma from founding Alibaba, both of them came from a very humble background. Also they have been eradicated away slowly over the last decade and has been accelerated in this administration since they can no longer rely on old businesses to drive growths. For example, you can file a personal LLC in China with no capital reserved requirements.
That is true theory, because China has not been practice communism but capitalism for the the last 30 years. Keep up with the change of the world and stuck with outdated American world view.
We're practically already China, in terms of how the government functionally operates.
No, we package our shits much better. They have propaganda departments; we have marketing departments. They are starting to learn political marketing from us, however.
You should have been waken up indeed. Also Xiaomi is currently being promoted by Chinese leaders (e.g. Premier Li Keqiang) as a star entrepreneur to encourage more hi-tech start ups along with Alibaba.
because Windows 10 == Windows X
It is likely the too big to fail at play. Gmail is used by lots of people and companies. When you are too big, government will have to keep you running by either not hurting you or, as in the US, by rescuing you.
They mangage/manipulate their currency so that there is effectively a huge discount to all products and services in China.
That's a myth as pointed out in my summary. Back in early 1990's the official rate was something like 1 USD to 3 RMB but the black market rate was 1:8. Nobody would bring their USDs to the bank to get Yuan; instead they all found black market source to get more Yuan. Eventually, the Chinese government realized they couldn't pop up the Yuan and so let it fall to the black market rate. Currently, the black market rate is the same as the official rate. If it is really undervalued, I would think the black market would reflect that. In China, always look at the black market first.
from the reading of the article, it seems to work for Type 2 too but their research for now only test for Type 1? Would anyone venture to think why this will or will not work for type 2? (try to see if this will help my folk who has type 2.)
Well... he can't tell the truth.
640K ought to be enough.
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That's because Chinese people are complaining loudly that their government is too soft. (don't believe? read the Chinese news portals' user comments for some days.)
And, we are indeed very very good at soft power -- it is known as political marketing.
Huawei was accused of pretty much the same thing by the US companies/gov't. Looks like not a Chinese exclusive, but it is OK that we do this.
NIMBY is an unavoidable phenomena in advanced economy. With enforcement of environment protection laws, you can be sure of hazard over development and pollution, like in China for up to now. Then once it became a significant problem, people would rise up and complaint and started creating/enforcing environment laws -- China is now at this stage. Then once there are sufficient laws, some people will then start abusing the laws to protect their own interest, thus NIMBY -- even China now has had quite many large scale protests against building chemical factories in their neighborhoods.
Can people stay the middle way and be rational? No, and will never. The two extremes will have to fight and the pendulum will swing back and forth. That's why the Yin-Yang symbol is not gray colored but spinning black and white. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about. People will fight their way to balance in the long term.
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All EULA also contains clauses like "We can change the terms of this agreement at will." And once it got enough penetration, a letter/email looking a like a junk will be sent to you inbox/mailbox with a lengthy legal statement of the changes and guaranteed 99% will not ever read and remaining 99% will not care a damn thing.
In this country, we cook you like frog in slow cooker powered by fine prints.
some volcanoes will erect before they blow.
Fragmenting an existing standard creates a new standard that can draw in $$$. Everything else, national security, national pride, etc., are just excused to rip public funds. US or China.
and isn't open source meant to encourage such -- can you count how many Linux distributions out there?
If sina.com (and online news portals sohu.com and netease.com which all carry the same piece) are not major Chinese news sources, I don't know what can be. Further the original sina.com link is contributed by Globe Times which is a subsidiary of People's Daily and is considered more pro-government than its parent. PD's website also carries the same news. And why is the re-posting of BBC article even logically relevant to this discussion of censorship here?
Clearly another victim of Department of Education!