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China's biggest startups ditch Oracle and IBM for home-made tech (scmp.com)
11 points by guyhance 2552 days ago
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Western companies were so blind by the "possible" money to be made in China that they didn't care that the Chinese government forced them to partner with Chinese companies, and then the Western companies were forced to hand over their technology to their Chinese partners. The Western companies did worry that every Chinese company is partially owned by the Chinese government, so the Chinese partner handed over all the technology and IP to the Chinese government and the Chinese government shared that IP and technology with any Chinese company that could benefit.

Now all the hubris is coming home to roost.

I foresee a serious International Tech War on the horizon.
The West is weak. It surrendered a long time ago. I see no reason to believe it would suddenly grow a will to stand for itself. Trump is but a blip, and he's merely a caricature to begin with.