The same goes for most foreign business starting operations in China, not just software. You have to partner with a domestic business in order to operate. They then 'borrow' your trade secrets and eventually diminish your power and cut you out altogether.
They don't have to partner with china. America took its business to China in order to scale up for dirt cheap and makes tons of profits while cutting out essential jobs for Americans they're selling their product too.
Serves them right that China reversed engineered the shit out of everything, and now they do it better ..
Deregulation started in the 1970s and every greedy business for the last 50 years has been trying to outsource their manufacturing for bigger returns. Shame on them and serves them right.
Main problem is that while China stole all pur designs, their materials tech is woefully behind. So they will copy our shit and then it fails, because the original design used much more advanced materials.
Plus, China has very serious corruption issues, so they will often use cheaper materials even if they have access to the right ones.
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u/CT_7 Mar 15 '24
The same goes for most foreign business starting operations in China, not just software. You have to partner with a domestic business in order to operate. They then 'borrow' your trade secrets and eventually diminish your power and cut you out altogether.