[rhizome]

Every Chinese company is at least partially owned, controlled, or heavily influenced by the Chinese government. It's just a fact of life given their current system of government.

Is this different than American companies who are at least partially funded and/or influenced by the CIA? (Among other sources of government funding...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

[everdrive]

It's vastly different. You're talking about one affiliated company vs. China's ability to control any Chinese company.

[rconti]

I've worked for one IQT company and it couldn't have been more hands-off.

I haven't worked for a Chinese-backed company, though, so I can't say one way or the other.

[rhizome]

I'm sure it could easily have been more hands-on, though. I think all governments engage in this to some degree, or try to, or would like to. It's a natural extension of power, control over the country, getting your hooks into your dependencies. We see how rich people and companies have essentially stopped contributing finanically to the running of the country, which isn't free.