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OhMyGodTheyKilledBri t1_ism6nmj wrote

Because China looks at every relationship as an opportunity to help advance China. Currently, if I buy from a company that has a plant in Germany but is based in China, I have to assume that any technical info I send Germany will end up in China and there will be 6 competitors next month who now have access to my proprietary work. We benefit from China’s cheap labor but long term we are playing a game we cannot win. They have used our technical advances to make leaps and bounds. We’re spending billions in the US in R&D for China to use it for essentially free against ourselves.

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