| > but I have a hard time believing that foreign tech investments in China really pay off. If it didn't pay off, apple wouldn't be the most valuable company in the world. > The Chinese strategy seems to be to woo big foreign companies, build a critical mass of local users who want the product, ban or otherwise limit the foreign company's influence in China What else do you expect them to do? Cede their entire market to foreigners? Every country did the same thing. The europeans did it. We did it in the US. The japanese and the south koreans. It's really common sense. > If Google accomplishes anything worthwhile at this research center, won't China just shut it down and re-employ those researchers at a domestic company? If they did, why would google invest in china? It's been 40 years. If investing in china wasn't lucrative, it would have ended a long time ago. > Why do high-tech companies even continue to try to break into China? The real question is why is it that we get the exact same type of comments in every thread about china? Go through every china related thread on HN and every single one has the exact same comments. Why? |