• Avid Amoeba
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    13 hours ago

    Yes. There are plenty hugely successful Chinese companies. The hypothetical I’m considering is NVIDIA becoming a successful Chinese company, not an American company trying to do product development in China. It won’t be a foreign company to steal IP from and there won’t be a need to replace it with another one.

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      13 hours ago

      Right, for profit companies famously have a history of just handing themselves over to totalitarian regimes.

      China has no successful companies that aren’t approved, controlled and often subsidized by the party.

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        11 hours ago

        Right, for profit companies famously have a history of just handing themselves over to totalitarian regimes.

        There are Western for-profit companies who have Chinese subsidiaries developing and selling products in China. They make profits on those sales and hand them over to their shareholders in the West and in China. The Chinese government fully allows this so for-profit companies regularly do it. And yes the Chinese state often is a direct or indirect shareholder. But so could be Berkshire Hathaway. It’s not about handing over the ability to profit. It is about making profit. Also, Western for-profit companies often sell themselves to Chinese firms. E.g. Smithfield Foods, Syngenta and many others.

        China has no successful companies that aren’t approved, controlled and often subsidized by the party.

        That’s an interesting assertion. As far as I’m aware it’s typically the other way around. The companies that grow to be large enough or strategic enough give partial ownership to the government. Of course the government subsidizes important industries like every competent state does, but that doesn’t mean it owns every company it subsidizes. There’s no point in owning small fish. Some of those that grow even have foreign ownership. For example BYD has Berkshire Hathaway and BlackRock as some of its major shareholders.

        So in the case of NVIDIA, it’s entirely plausible for the company to move operations in say Shenzhen, retaining most of its current ownership, perhaps giving some ownership to a Chinese state company. The profits keep flowing to BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity and Jensen Huang. Pretty sure they’ll approve it if it means more future profits compared to staying in the US and being unable to sell to China and others. For example if Trump decides that both EU and China are bad hombres and forbids AI chip sales to them, while the US economy tanks, decreasing the domestic sales.

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          6 hours ago

          Super relevant argument that ccp allows some companies to grow before they take over. And yes, obviously nobody would do business in China if they didn’t share the profits. Hopefully nobody will ever do business again with a shithole like russia.

          Except Nvidia is the third largest company in the world with a ton of existing IP that they would effectively be handing over to a country that has a history of stealing IP without any repercussions and had the resources to take advantage of that IP and make Nvidia irrelevant.