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China’s New Trade Strategy: Threatening U.S. Companies
Arthur Dong ^
| August 13, 2018
| Arthur Dong
Posted on 08/15/2018 6:35:01 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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posted on
08/15/2018 6:35:01 PM PDT
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Zhang Fei
To: Zhang Fei
Oops. Typo. The article is from Fortune, for which Arthur Dong is a contributor.
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posted on
08/15/2018 6:36:14 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Zhang Fei
Apple is, Im reasonably sure, putting together contingency plans with Foxconn to move assembly operations out of China on short notice. That would not be easy and cant be done overnight but it can be done.
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posted on
08/15/2018 6:42:27 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: Zhang Fei
“United Technologies, Caterpillar, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, IBM, Disney, Cargill, General Motors, Ford, and Procter & Gamble all have significant production capacity...”
So move back to the US.
Problem solved.
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posted on
08/15/2018 6:48:53 PM PDT
by
JPJones
(More tariffs, less income tax.)
To: JPJones
Our companies make decisions based on what’s based for them, unlike in China where it’s government based control. Apple may talk here but they will find somewhere else to build the phones, cheaper than here, and more friendly than China.
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posted on
08/15/2018 6:52:28 PM PDT
by
Almondjoy
To: Zhang Fei
Its a very good window on China’s thinking.
For them, every company or organization is an arm of the state and a tool of strategic power. Because in China - everything is ultimately tied to the State.
Yes, the USA uses corporations in the service of government and strategic aims as well, but we start with the premise they are completely independent actors.
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posted on
08/15/2018 6:54:28 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Zhang Fei
Confucius say
he who lies down with dogs, soon have fleas.
Perhaps Apple should put on a collar.
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posted on
08/15/2018 7:06:34 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
To: Almondjoy
[Our companies make decisions based on whats based for them, unlike in China where its government based control.]
Their corporate execs do what’s good for their companies, too. But then the Party arrests their CEO’s and confiscates their wealth. Which has the effect desired of getting everyone to think about the Party’s interests first and foremost. Or else. This is just the state-owned companies. The privately-owned companies are worse off. That’s why so many fairly well-off people are emigrating. It probably rankles that the Party always has the Sword of Democles dangling over their necks.
In theory, Chinese entrepreneurs own property. In practice, the Party can take it away any time it wants, for any reason or none whatsoever, although it will manufacture an excuse for its arbitrary seizures and censor any commentary that contradicts or critiques its actions. This lack of secure property rights will eventually do a number on China’s economy, well before it catches up to the West.
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posted on
08/15/2018 7:06:56 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Zhang Fei
If they do this, kick ALL Chinese citizens who are students and faculty (so-called) out of our country pronto, but most of whom are actually just spies and intellectual property thieves. Get them out! America first! Reserve those university seats for smart American kids. Subsidize those kids instead of Chinese spies and thieves! We'll see how well that backward culture can keep up if we do not permit, actually subsidize, nine million of them to infiltrate our country. My guess: About as well as the Soviets did it.
To: Zhang Fei
Easily fixed. Layoff all Chinese workers and plunge the entire nation into a resession. Let’s see the commies control a few billion pissed off layer off workers. F’em!
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posted on
08/15/2018 7:34:02 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(Jesus is God! Deal with it.)
To: Zhang Fei
Not new. SOP.
Panic has made them less circumspect.
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posted on
08/15/2018 7:44:03 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: PGR88
“For them, every company or organization is an arm of the state and a tool of strategic power. Because in China - everything is ultimately tied to the State.”
Yes. Exactly.
It’s National Socialism.
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posted on
08/15/2018 7:54:22 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: JPJones
Kill the Federal Consumption (Corp Income)Tax Completely, get it off the books, and they’ll all come running home.
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posted on
08/15/2018 8:02:41 PM PDT
by
To-Whose-Benefit?
(It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
To: Zhang Fei
Chinas New Trade Strategy: Threatening U.S. Companies Taking lessons from "the resistance" I see
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posted on
08/15/2018 8:23:38 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Perhaps Apple should put on a collar. Apple has no production infrastructure in China, nor have they any employees there except sales staff. They can easily shift production anywhere in the world, and do have production facilities elsewhere including a heavy presence in the USA.
Perhaps you mean United Technologies, Caterpillar, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, IBM, Disney, Cargill, General Motors, Ford, and Procter & Gamble...
etc. among hundreds of other US companies that are heavily reliant on Chinese labor.
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posted on
08/15/2018 8:42:13 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: Zhang Fei
Time for American businesses to “Get the hell out of Red China” before they are “Castroized”.
To: Zhang Fei
Good Destroy Apple 🍎 Id LOVE TO SEE IT
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posted on
08/15/2018 9:39:31 PM PDT
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: Zhang Fei
Nationalizing foreign companies is always in the playboy for these dictators.
Remember that to do any business in china, the company built there must be 51% chinese owned. And it's just a matter of time before they copy or steal the company secrets & tech and claim it as their own.
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posted on
08/15/2018 11:19:12 PM PDT
by
prophetic
(Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
To: LibWhacker
While china don’t yet have the technical spy assets in space like the usa, their spying is done via the massive human resources on via students, tourists, journalists, etc. They call it Spying via 1000 grains of sand and they have a huge system of hundreds of thousands to collect & analyze their info.
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posted on
08/15/2018 11:25:20 PM PDT
by
prophetic
(Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
To: Zhang Fei
So will the contingency plans include several tons of Thermite and/or high explosives to prevent critical manufacturing equipment, servers and data from falling into the Chinese hands?
If these companies have any sense at all, these plans should be ready within 24 hrs and prepared to hit the Kill Switch aka The Self Destruct Button.
One very strategic item they badly covet is our jet engines technology as that would give them a huge boost as they still have a ways to go in their jet engines designs.
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posted on
08/15/2018 11:35:21 PM PDT
by
prophetic
(Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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