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by re-thc 475 days ago
> explain?

Taiwan has most of its trade with China (like it or not).

There are numerous things that are e.g. illegal in China but "legal" in Taiwan and so Chinese business is conducted there e.g. online gambling sites.

Then there are plenty of Taiwanese companies that end up being a disguise for China 1 way or another e.g. to bypass sanctions (well so is Singapore as per recent news on nvidia gpu smuggling). 1 of the best examples is VIA technologies, that helped China create x86 CPUs back in the days.

A lot of Chinese gangs in Asia used to operate out of Hong Kong. When 1997 happened (i.e. return to China), most of them gave up or moved to other places like Taiwan since China has the death penalty.
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throwaway290 475 days ago
> Taiwan has most of its trade with China (like it or not).

Does that make it a place for shady deals?

> There are numerous things that are e.g. illegal in China but "legal" in Taiwan and so Chinese business is conducted there e.g. online gambling sites

Gambling is illegal in Taiwan

> Then there are plenty of Taiwanese companies that end up being a disguise for China 1 way or another e.g. to bypass sanctions (well so is Singapore as per recent news on nvidia gpu smuggling). 1 of the best examples is VIA technologies, that helped China create x86 CPUs back in the days.

Citation needed

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re-thc 469 days ago
> Does that make it a place for shady deals?

Where do you expect them to go then? It's the most logical place.

> Gambling is illegal in Taiwan

They aren't offering gambling services in Taiwan to Taiwanese people. Hence it's definitely a gray area.

> Citation needed

VIA technologies? Too old, link likely wiped, but you can look the history. VIA technologies went into a JV with China in 2013 called Zhaoxin. Before that they literally never touched the x86 for years. There was no way for China to otherwise acquire an x86 license (this was before ARM would be a thing).

For reference you can compare it to how AMD handled a similar JV [0] and see stark differences. AMD went to long lengths to protect their IP and then stopped once they no longer needed to.

If we have to keep going, HTC also eventually suffered a similar but different fate. Funny that both companies have something to do with a certain someone...

[0]: https://wccftech.com/no-amd-did-not-sell-keys-kingdom-how-th...

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