[jnordt]

Would you mind giving some examples?

The worst cases that I remember were usually private equity / leveraged buy outs, that usually leads to a transfer of the production to EastAsia. That practice is not exclusive to Amercan companies though.

It will be interesting to see how the new Chinese investments will fear (Kuka) and if the German goverment will adopt a stronger stance on this take overs in the future.

[iforgotpassword]

There was a great documentary about it on a German TV channel (Arte) years ago. One name that got stuck is Märklin, since I know people who worked there. It wasn't the worst case though and the company still lives independently, after some rough times.

Not trying to say that either practice is good, but there tends to be a bias in perception, naturally. We're always the good guys and China is the evil 60s SciFi villain who's mostly just evil because he's evil, kind of.