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kudos:8 | Chinese hacking technology - Made in USA .. For decades, U.S.-owned technology giants have set up state-of-the-art factories, laboratories and training programs in China. Their aim was to use a super-cheap, lightly regulated production base to supply Chinese and world markets, and to harness Chinese scientific talent. Greater profits were the top priority, but the companies also claimed that a more computer- and Internet-savvy China would become more peaceful and democratic.
Chinese authorities demanded some technology as the price of access to their market. Yet most transfers were made voluntarily to Chinese partners. ... Paradoxically, the first known victims of China’s U.S.- enabled cybercapacities were Chinese citizens. ...
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Yup, I've seen this first hand.
I worked for a high-tech company that decided to shift a large portion of its manufacturing to China. Bean-counters made the decision to save a bean a two.
As a part of the move much of the company's IP (Intellectual Property) was simply given to the Chinese.
Surprise surprise quality went down (whole shipments of product were defective), counterfeit components were used, and cheap knockoffs appeared.
/sarcasm on
What a shocker--I never saw that coming.
/sarcasm off
PS: Few bean-counters can see "the big picture" as they stare, myopically, at beans all day.
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The story's at least as old as Western civilization. It's an oft-repeated cultural trait of Western capitalism which, for the sake of competitive advantage, ignores the ultimate compounded consequences of individual short-term business decisions - what Lenin referred to in saying "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." The rationale is that if I don't sell them the item (or build it there in their low labor-cost environment), my competitor will. Any long-term or ultimate consequences from such decisions are left for somebody else to deal with.
Now we're all dealing with yet another set of consequences... 
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EGeezerGo CatsPremium
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said by StuartMW:Surprise surprise quality went down (whole shipments of product were defective), counterfeit components were used, and cheap knockoffs appeared.
A friend of ours who owned a wholesale gift shop supplier ordered about 50,000 scented candles from a Chinese supplier. Unfortunately, his people hadn't written stringent enough specifications. The supplier sent them stuff that smelled like crap and had various and sundry impurities in them that made them impossible to even remain lighted. They were completely unfit for resale, but the supplier stuck to the "the products meet specs" legal argument. Rather than face a protracted legal battle, he ate the cost.
Chinese suppliers often wine and dine buyers and decision makers who go there to negotiate deals, including offering the 'companionship' of attractive ladies, booze, hotel stays and meals.
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StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
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What do accountants (bean-counters) use for contraceptives?
Their personalities.
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