[SandersAK]

Personally I was really disappointed when YC opened up shop in China - to me it really revealed a Profits over People approach and was pretty brazen at the time.

Happy to see (for whatever reason) that they're recommitting to communities that (at least on the surface) don't support fascist overtures.

[edwinyzh]

>>"recommitting to communities that (at least on the surface) don't support fascist overtures"

Sorry, but what you said is quite different from my conclusion from comparing a country which starts wars all around the world, with a country which build infrastructures all around the world.

[noobermin]

Echoing another poster, people and individuals who are Chinese are not their government. You shouldn't equate working with Chinese individuals and talent as a tacit support of their government.

[SandersAK]

You should do more digging into how "doing business in China" works before you make this statement.

[mherdeg]

I really have no idea how "doing business in China" works. I thought I understood it but I still don't...

An interesting thread last year suggested that in some cases companies spent many years "doing business in China" as a form of ... de-escalation to avoid nuclear war, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17004546

[throwaway2048]

You don't do business in China without supporting the government, and them supporting you, period.

Plenty of Chinese people call the communist party "The organization" because as far as they are concerned, its the only power structure that exists in China.

[Aeolun]

Is it like that? I’m sure it’s true in some cases, but I have the feeling Chinese people are often much more their government than otherwise similar people in other countries.

Of course, all that’s based on hearsay, so who knows what the reality is.

[slowmotiony]

They aren't recommitting anything. They got their IP stolen and their logo is still being used, and apparently they can't even say anything about it.

[yourbandsucks]

Chinese people are people too, you know.

[ngcc_hk]

But chinese government is not a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

North Korean is also human too. So is those in nazi Germany für Ibm.

[yourbandsucks]

Nazis are not in fact people for the purposes of discussion. They are movie extras who get shot as fast as possible.

You really had to go full Godwin dehumanization on a billion people right away?

[throwaway2048]

The nazi regime is very much comparable to the Chinese communist party in methods and death toll, about the only thing they don't measure up on is overt military aggression.

Why do you dismiss any comparisons with the Nazis out of hand? Seems like an exceptionally poor way to learn from history.

[tomnipotent]

> comparisons with the Nazis out of hand

Because they're generally silly hyperbole, just like this example. If you put China in the same tier as Nazi Germany, you're missing the forest for the trees.