Microsoft Funds First US-Based Chinese Research University Degree Program 27
theodp writes: Microsoft will give $40 million to help fund a graduate-school program with the Univ. of Washington and China's Tsinghua University. The Global Innovation Exchange, which will be located in the Seattle area, marks the first time a Chinese research university has established a physical presence in the U.S. The center will open in 2016 with the goal of attracting 3,000 students within a decade, according to Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith. UW Interim President Ana Mari Cauce and Tsinghua President Qiu Yong made the announcement Thursday afternoon in downtown Bellevue, accompanied by Gov. Jay Inslee and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Both Cauce and Smith waved off concerns about the possibility that a partnership with a Chinese university could lead to corporate espionage or hacking. "The solution to mistrust is more contact, not less," said Cauce, whose UW currently hosts 3,500+ students from China.
Riiiight (Score:2)
I had some philosophical bog roll with quotes like that on it.
Re: Riiiight (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course that only works if the other party is actually trustworthy.
Sure, help the enemy... (Score:3, Insightful)
"“Helping Chinese universities or the Chinese government get global branding definitely provides a very good view to the government, which is good for building up the relationship between Microsoft and the government.”
Wow Microsoft, that's sure nice of you, after having built your empire on the backs of hard working Americans who paid you big dollars for your software, to take some of your easily earned money and support a country who is pointing nukes at us. Hey, why don't you do the same for Russia and North Korea? Oh, that's right, they don't have over a billion people who may want to buy your products.Or maybe you're long-term play here is to foster international competition by training up a large number of foreigners who will go back and work in their own country (oops, I mean form IT consultancies that will provide much needed staffing (spies) to American companies through H-1B visas, because, after all, Suckerberg really needs some help).
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Another Merican propaganda drone! I bet you don't even see the problem with Reps & Dems arguing.
Do you believe the Sony hack was North Korea? How do you think the North Korean's hack using their Commodore Vic 20s at 300Baud? Sony was an inside job most likely an underpaid IT worker.
When was the last time the Chinese invaded or attacked anyone? China is determined not to be invaded again that is why they are pushing their military might. You should read up on WWII.
H1-Bs are an American corporatist/c
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If Wall Street didn't demand repeat increases year after year in earnings/dividends,
Not just wall street. Also people who have invested money in retirement funds based on the stock market. If the big corps don't pay their dividends, a lot of people won't have a retirement.
Re: Sure, help the enemy... (Score:2)
Re: Sure, help the enemy... (Score:1)
Misdirected Trust (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Misdirected Trust (Score:4, Insightful)
Does this have more to do with 'evil chinese hacker swarms' or more to do with poorly secured networks being abused by parties unknown? Seriously, I'm no hacker but I'd have enough brains to never launch attacks directly from my loc when there are perfectly weak targets to channel attacks through. And lets forget entirely about TOR because systems attacks through TOR could never be a thing.
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Do you think the Chinese with their Great Firewall and monitoring aren't aware of every packet that goes across their network? You're asking us to believe that the Chinese love to let rogue agents from third parties use their gear and IP space even with all of the countermeasures they have in place? Maybe for cover. Thanks for your "insight"... I'll take Occam's Razor for $2000, Alex.
It might get interesting (Score:3)
I'm at UW. There have been several recent occasions where we've ended up firewalling blocks of Chinese IP addresses from accessing our department's servers. It will be interesting to see what happens if we run into a new bad actor who's on the same network as one of these new collaborators from over there.
That went well with Nortel (Score:1)
After letting the Chinese walk out with everything from Nortel, Huawei now exists a PRC government-backed entity.